Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 30 March:   JOHANN WILHELM WILMS = Dutch-German composer = [died: 1847]
• 25 April:   LOUIS DELAND = Swedish actor, singer and dancer = [died: 1823]
• 1 May:   JACQUES-MICHEL HUREL DE LAMARE = French cellist = [died: 1823]
• 3 September:   NICOLA TACCHINARDI = Italian cellist and operatic tenor = [died: 1859]
• 4 October:   FRANCOIS-LOUIS PERNE = French composer = [died: 1832]


• date unknown:
• FRANZ CRAMER = English violinist = [died: 1848]
• CYRILL DEMIAN = Austrian-Armenian piano and organ maker = [died: 1847]

Timeline of Events

• 2 January: The funeral of Sigismund von Schrattenbach, Archbishop of Salzburg, is the occasion for the first performance of MICHAEL HAYDN's Missa pro defunctis Archespiscopo.
• 13 March: FLORIAN LEOPOLD GASSMANN replaces GEORG REUTTER II as Hofkapellmeister to the court of Emperor Joseph II in Vienna.
• 5 June: CARL DITTERS VON DITTERSDORF is ennobled by Empress Maria Theresa.


• Undated:
• CARL STAMITZ is resident composer at Versailles.
• DR CHARLES BURNEY visits JOHANN BAPTIST WANHAL in Vienna.
• IGNAZ PLEYEL becomes a pupil of JOSEPH HAYDN.

Popular Music

• "Auld Robin Gray" by Rev. WILLIAM LEEVES & Lady ANNE BARNARD

Classical Music

• JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH
• Symphonie Concertante in G C32
• JOSEPH HAYDN
• Symphonies 44 "Trauer" and 45 "Farewell"
• String Quartets, Op. 20
• WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
• Divertimenti K. 136-138 "Salzburg Symphonies"
• ANDREA LUCHESI
• 6 Sonatas for harpsichord and violin Op.1
• GIOVANNI PAISIELLO
• Requiem for Gennara di Borbone

Opera

• PASQUALE ANFOSSI
• Alessandro nelle Indie
• JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH
• Endimione
• Temistocle
• WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
• Il sogno di Scipione
• Lucio Silla