Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 24 January:   KARL MOSER = composer = [died: 1851]
• 16 February:   PIERRE RODE = French violinist, composer = [died: 1830]
• 5 March:   CHRISTOPH ERNST FRIEDRICH WEYSE = Danish composer = [died: 1842]
• 17 April:   VÁCLAV JAN KŘTITEL TOMÁŠEK = Czech organist and composer = [died: 1850]
• 7 October:   FERDINANDO ORLANDI = Italian composer = [died: 1848]
• 14 November:   GASPARE SPONTINI = Italian composer = [died: 1851]
• 18 November:   WILLIAM HORSLEY = English composer = [died: 1858]
• 20 December:   GUILLAUME-PERRE-ANTOINE GATAYES = French composer = [died: 1846]

Timeline of Events

• Undated:
• ANTONIO SALIERI is appointed court composer to the Emperor Joseph II.
• DOMENICO CIMAROSA is invited to Rome for the opera season.
• CHARLES BURNEY writes A Plan for a Music School.
• PASCAL TASKIN becomes keeper of the King's instruments.
• GEORG JOSEPH VOGLER becomes a pupil of GIOVANNI BATTISTA MARTINI at Bologna.

Classical Music

• JOSEPH HAYDN
• Great Organ Mass
• WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
• Symphony No. 29 in A
• CARL STAMITZ
• Concerto for Viola no 1 in D major

Opera

• PASQUALE ANFOSSI
• La finta giardiniera; Olimpiade
• CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK
• Iphigenie en Aulide