Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

1 January: MICAH HAWKINS = American composer = [died: 1825]
3 January: LOUIS POINSOT = French instrument maker = [died: 1859]
8 January: FILIPPO TRAETTA = Italian naturalized American musicologist = [died: 1854]
18 April: IGNAC RUZITSKA = Hungarian composer = [died: 1833]
4 May: CHARLES-LOUIS-JOSEPH HANSSENS = Belgian composer = [died: 1852]
28 May: JOSEPH-HENRI-IGNACE MEES = composer = [died: 1858]
2 June: CHRISTIAN TRAUGOTT TAG = German composer = [died: 1839]
15 June:

30 September: RAMON FELIX CUELLAR Y ALTARRIBA = Spanish composer = [died: 1833]
6 October: WILLIAM RUSSELL = English organist and composer = [died: 1813]
5 November: FILIPPO TAGLIONI = Italian dancer and choreographer = [died: 1871]

Timeline of Events

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART resigns his position in the Salzburg court.
SAMUEL ARNOLD becomes musical director of the Haymarket Theatre in London.
Über die Theorie der Musik by JOHANN NIKOLAUS FORKEL is published in Göttingen.
THOMAS ARNE and his wife are reconciled after a separation of over twenty years.