Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

8 March: KATERINA VERONIKA ANNA DUSÍKOVA = Czech-Bohemian singer, harpist, pianist and composer = [died: 1833]
25 March: SALVATORE VIGANÒ = Italian choreographer, dancer and composer = [died: 1821]
11 April: JOHANN GEORG LICKL = Austrian organist and composer = [died: 1843]
25 April: CHARLES BORREMANS = Belgian violinist and conductor = [died: 1827]
1 June: JÓZEF ELSNER = Prussian/Polish composer and music teacher, Chopin's future teacher = [died: 1854]
4 July: LOUIS-LUC LOISEAU DE PERSUIS = French violinist, conductor and composer = [died: 1819]
23 July: ALEXEY NIKOLAYEVICH TITOV = Russian violinist and composer = [died: 1827]
14 August: FRIEDRICH DÜLON = German flautist = [died: 1826]
12 September: REGINALD SPOFFORTH = English organist, conductor and composer = [died: 1827]

Timeline of Events

LUIGI BOCCHERINI goes to Madrid as the court chamber music composer to the Infante Don Luis.
WENZEL PICHL becomes musical director for Count Ludwig Hartig in Prague
14-year-old MOZART hears ALLEGRI's Miserere for the first time, returns home and copies it down note for note.
CHARLES BURNEY receives an honorary doctorate in music from the University of Oxford.
ANTONIO MARIA GASPARE SACCHINI arrives in Venice.
JAMES HOOK is appointed composer to Marylebone Gardens.