Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 20 January:   GIOVANNI DOMENICO PEROTTI = Italian composer = [died: 1825]
• 22 January:   GEORG NIKOLAUS VON NISSEN = Danish biographer of Mozart = [died: 1826]
• 26 January:   JENS ZETLITZ = Norwegian songwriter = [died: 1821]
• 12 February:   JAN LADISLAV DUSSEK = Czech composer and pianist = [died: 1812]
• 15 February:   JACOB KIMBALL, Jr. = American composer = [died: 1826]
• 20 February:   JOHANN CHRISTIAN LUDWIG ABEILLE = German pianist and composer = [died: 1838]
• 22 February:   ERIK TULINDBERG = Finnish composer = [died: 1814]
• 20 April:   JOHANN GOTTLIEB KARL SPAZIER = German composer = [died: 1805]
• 13 June:   ANTONÍN VRANICKÝ or WRANITZKY = Czech violinist and composer = [died: 1820]
• 20 July:   JOSEPH LEFEBVRE = French composer = [died: ?]
• 4 September:   F.L.Æ. KUNZEN = German composer and conductor = [died: 1817]


• date unknown:
• JOHN ANDREW STEVENSON = Irish composer = [died: 1833]

Timeline of Events

• Undated:
• FRANCESCO GEMINIANI visits Dublin, where he is robbed of a valuable manuscript.
• DOMENICO CIMAROSA enters the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto.
• JOSEPH HAYDN enters the service of the Esterházy family

Classical Music

• THOMAS ARNE
• Judith (oratorio)
• CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK
• Don Juan (ballet)
• FRANÇOIS JOSEPH GOSSEC
• Sei sinfonie a più stromenti, op.5
• JOSEPH HAYDN
• Symphony No. 6 ("Le matin")
• Symphony No. 7 ("Le midi")
• Symphony No. 8 ("Le soir")
• MICHAEL HAYDN
• Symphony in C major
• WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
• Minuet for Harpsichord

Opera

• CHARLES-GUILLAUME ALEXANDRE
• George et Georgette
• FLORIAN LEOPOLD GASSMANN
• Catone in Utica
• BALDASSARE GALUPPI
• Le Tre Amante Ridicoli