Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 12 April:   CAROLUS ANTONIUS FODOR = Dutch pianist, conductor, and composer = [died: 1846]
• 1 September:   CARL BERNHARD WESSELY German composer = [died: 1826]
• 12 September:   BENJAMIN CARR = American composer, singer, teacher, and music publisher = [died: 1831]
• 14 September:   GEORG JOHANN SCHINN = German composer = [died: 1833]
• 21 September:   LOUIS-EMMANUEL JADIN = French composer, pianist and harpsichordist = [died: 1853]
• 24 November:   JEAN-ENGELBERT PAUWELS = German violinist and composer = [died: 1804]
• 6 December:   JOHANN BAPTIST HENNEBERG = Austrian composer, pianist, organist and conductor = [died 1822]


• date unknown:
• GAETANO CRIVELLI = Italian operatic tenor = [died: 1836]

Timeline of Events

• Undated:
• WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART and his family are resident in Vienna until December.
• ANTONIO SACCHINI returns to Venice to become director of the Conservatorio dell'Ospadeletto.
• GIUSEPPE TARTINI suffers a stroke.
• MICHAEL HAYDN marries MARIA MAGDALENA LIPP, a singer and the daughter of the court organist.

Popular Music

• "The Liberty Song", with lyrics by JOHN DICKINSON – considered the first American patriotic song. He used the music to the traditional British song, Hearts of Oak.

Classical Music

• JOSEPH HAYDN
• Applausus
• WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
• Symphonies no 7 and 8
• LUIGI BOCCHERINI
• Cello Concerto in D Major
• MUZIO CLEMENTI
• Sonata for Harpsichord in G major

Opera

• WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
• Bastien und Bastienne (his first published opera)
• JOSEPH HAYDN
• Lo speziale
• NICCOLÒ JOMMELLI
• Fetonte
• GIOVANNI PAISIELLO
• Olimpia
• ANTONIO ZINGARELLI
• I quattro pazzi