Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 21 January:   MANUEL DEL PÓPULO VICENTE GARCÍA = Spanish singer and composer = [died: 1832]
• 4 June:   FRANCESCO MOLINO = Italian guitarist and composer = [died: 1847]
• 13 June:   ANTONI RADZIWIŁŁ = Polish and Prussian politician and musician = [died: 1833]
• 5 July:   WILLIAM CROTCH = English composer and organist = [died: 1847]
• 2 August:   JOSÉ ÁNGEL LAMAS = Venezuelan composer = [died: 1814]
• 31 August:   FRANÇOIS DE FOSSA = French guitarist and composer = [died: 1849]
• 17 September:   MARGRETHE SCHALL = Danish ballerina = [died: 1852]
• 15 October:   BERNHARD HENRIK CRUSELL = Swedish-Finnish clarinettist and composer = [died: 1838]
• 21 October:   GIUSEPPE BAINI = Italian composer and music critic = [died: 1844]
• 30 October:   CATTERINO CAVOS = Italian settled in Russia organist, conductor and composer = [died: 1840]
• 16 December:   FRANÇOIS-ADRIEN BOÏELDIEU = French composer = [died: 1834]
• 25 December:   ANTUN SORKOČEVIĆ = Croatian writer, composer and diplomat = [died: 1841]


• date unknown:
• JOSEPH ANTONIO EMIDY = West African-born Brazilian/Portuguese/English violinist and composer [died: 1835]
• ANDREA NOZZARI = Italian operatic tenor = [died: 1832]

Timeline of Events

• 23 February: Première of PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS's play, The Barber of Seville, which will later provide material for more than one opera.


• Undated:
• WILHELM HAUSER becomes organist at the monastery of Lavaldieu and the teacher of ÉTIENNE MÉHUL.

Classical Music

• KARL DITTERS VON DITTERSDORF
• Concerto for Oboe in D major
• JOSEPH MARTIN KRAUS
• Requiem
• WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
• Violin Concertos 3, 4 & 5

Opera

• JOHANN ANDRÉ
• Erwin und Elmire
• WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
• La finta giardiniera
• Il re pastore
• JOSEF MYSLIVEČEK
• Il Demofoonte