Mark's Music Circus
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Music Events of

Births

27 April: ANDREAS ROMBERG = German violinist and composer = [died: 1821]
4 May: TYAGARAJA = Indian composer and singer = [died: 1848]
17 September: HENRI MONTAN BERTON = French composer, teacher and writer, son of Pierre Montan Berton = [died: 1844]
20 September: JOSÉ MAURÍCIO NUNES GARCIA = Brazilian composer = [died: 1830]
26 September: WENZEL MÜLLER = Austrian composer and conductor = [died: 1835]
13 November: BERNHARD ROMBERG = German cellist and composer = [died: 1841]
8 December: FABRE D'OLIVET = French poet and composer = [died: 1825]

GOTTLIEB GRAUPNER = German/American musician, composer, educator and publisher = [died: 1836]
FILIP VIŠNJIĆ = Serbian poet and guslar player = [died: 1834]
LUIGI ZAMBONI = Italian operatic bass-baritone = [died: 1837]

Timeline of Events

22 February: LOVISA AUGUSTI performs at a concert in Gothenburg directed by a musician of the Hovkapellet.
11 September: 11-year-old WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART, his father LEOPOLD, his mother ANNA MARIA, and his older sister NANNERL left Salzburg for Vienna, travelling via Melk (where young WOLFGANG plays the organ). A few weeks later, an outbreak of smallpox in Vienna causes them to flee the city, and they travel to Brno.
26 October: WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART is diagnosed with smallpox. He recovers by November 10th, but NANNERL then contracts the disease; she also survives.

Dictionnaire de musique by JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU is published.
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART composes the first act of an oratorio, Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots, to be completed by MICHAEL HAYDN and ANTON CAJETAN ADLGASSER.