Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 24 January:   ERNST THEODOR AMADEUS HOFFMANN = German author and composer = [died: 1822]
• 18 February:   JOHN PARRY = Welsh harpist and composer = [died: 1851]
• 21 February:   VINCENZO LAVIGNA = Italian composer = [died: 1836]
• 8 April:   THADDAUS WEIGL = Austrian composer = [died: 1844]
• 10 May:   GEORGE THOMAS SMART = English composer = [died: 1867]
• 12 May:   JUAN BROS Y BERTOMEL = composer = [died: 1852]
• 13 May:
• CHARLES OTS = Belgian composer = [died: 1845]
• RODRIGO FERREIRA DA COSTA = composer = [died: 1825]
• 1 June:   JOHN GEORGE SCHETKY = American composer = [died: 1831]
• 4 August:   WENZEL SEDLAK = Bohemian clarinettist and composer = [died: 1851]
• 15 August:   IGNAZ XAVER VON SEYFRIED = Austrian composer = [died: 1841]
• 16 August:   PHILIPP JAKOB RIOTTE = German composer = [died: 1856]
• 6 December:   PAUL FRIEDRICH STRUCK = German-Austrian composer = [died: 1820]

Timeline of Events

• 24 September: The Bolshoi Theatre company hosts its first annual opera season, with the opening of the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St Petersburg.
• 26 December: GIOVANNI PAISIELLO's opera Il finto spettro, is premièred in Mannheim. PAISIELLO has already been invited to the court of Catherine the Great.


• Undated:
• CHARLES BURNEY publishes his History of Music
• Court Theatre in Stockholm built by King Gustav III of Sweden

Popular Music

• Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship by AUGUSTUS MONTAGUE TOPLADYFAT cats

Classical Music

• FRANÇOIS JOSEPH GOSSEC
• Symphonie de chasse; Symphonie en ré
• JAMES HOOK
• The Ascension (oratorio)
• WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
• Haffner Serenade, K.250

Opera

• GAETANO MARINELLI
• Il Barone di Sardafritta
• IGNAZ PLEYEL
• Die Fee Urgele
• ANTONIO TOZZI
• Le Due Gemelli
• TOMMASO TRAETTA
• Germondo