Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

24 February: SAMUEL WESLEY = English organist and composer = [died: 1837]
28 March: JOSEPH WEIGL = Austrian composer and conductor = [died: 1820]
18 July: JOHANN ANTON FRIEDRICH FLEISCHMANN = German composer = [died: 1798]
21 July: CAROLINA, Baroness Nairne = Scottish songwriter and song collector = [died: 1845]
1 August: IGNACE ANTOINE LADURNER = Austrian naturalized French pianist and composer = [died: 1839]
22 August: JOSEPH-DENIS DOCHE = French composer = [died: 1825]
9 October: BEDŘICH DIVIŠ WEBER = Czech composer and founding principal of the Prague Conservatory = [died: 1842]
16 November: RODOLPHE KREUTZER = French violinist and composer = [died: 1831]
20 November: JOHN WALL CALLCOTT = English composer = [died: 1821]

Timeline of Events

JOSEPH HAYDN becomes Kapellmeister to the Esterházys. The orchestra is increased to 22 players.
NICCOLÒ PICCINNI is invited to Paris by Queen Marie Antoinette.
DOM BÉDOS DE CELLES publishes his influential L'art du facteur d'orgues.
New Drottningholm Palace Theatre in Stockholm is completed as an opera house.