Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 4 January:   JOHANN PETER HEUSCHKEL = German oboist, organist, music teacher and composer = [died: 1853]
• 7 March:   TOMMASO MARCHESI = Italian composer = [died: 1852]
• 26 May:   HANS GEORG NÄGELI = Swiss composer = [died: 1836]
• 6 July:   WENZEL THOMAS MATIEGKA = Czech composer = [died: 1830]
• 19 August:   JOHAN PETER STRÖMBERG = Swedish actor, dancer and theatre director = [died: 1834]
• 24 September:   JOHANN PHILIPP CHRISTIAN SCHULZ = German composer = [died: 1827]
• 23 October:   PIETRO GENERALI = Italian composer = [died: 1832]
• 9 December:   MARIANNE EHRENSTRÖM = Swedish musician and writer = [died: 1867]
• 24 December:   JOSEPH WÖLFL = Austrian pianist and composer = [died: 1812]


• date unknown:
• EDWARD BUNTING = Irish folk song collector = [died: 1843]
• INGA ÅBERG = Swedish opera singer and actress = [died: 1837]

Timeline of Events

• 18 January:   CARL STENBORG, ELISABETH OLIN and HEDVIG WIGERT star in Thetis and Phelée, the inaugural production of the Royal Swedish Opera.
• February:   JOSEPH LEUTGEB tours Italy with LEOPOLD and WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART.
• 14 July:   WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART and his father LEOPOLD go to Vienna in search of work.


• Undated:
• JAMES HOOK vacates his post at Marylebone Gardens.

Classical Music

• JOHANN ALBRECHTSBERGER
• Concerto for Harp in C major
• SAMUEL ARNOLD
• The Prodigal Son (oratorio)
• WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
• Symphony No. 25 in G minor
• GIOVANNI BATTISTA SAMMARTINI
• Six String Quintets

Opera

• PASQUALE ANFOSSI
• Demofoonte
• DOMENICO CIMAROSA
• La finta parigina
• JOSEPH HAYDN
• L'infedeltà delusa
• Philemon und Baucis
• ANDREA LUCHESI
• L'Inganno Scoperto, overo Il Conte Caramella (libretto by CARLO GOLDONI)
• ANTON SCHWEITZER
• Alceste (libretto by CHRISTOPH MARTIN WIELAND)