Mark's Music Circus
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Music Events of

Births

5 January: FORTUNATO SANTINI = Italian composer = [died: 1861]
13 January: ANTON FISCHER = German composer = [died: 1808]
12 February: FRANZ JOSEPH VOLKERT = German composer = [died: ?]
14 February (baptized): FERNANDO SOR = Spanish guitarist and composer = [died: 1839]
8 March: FRIEDRICH AUGUST KANNE = Austrian composer = [died: 1833]
6 April: JOSEPH FUNK = American composer = [died: 1862]
8 May: JOHANN GANSBACHER = Austrian composer = [died: 1844]
28 May: FRIEDRICH WESTENHOLZ = Austrian composer = [died: 1840]
10 July: SIGISMUND RITTER VON NEUKOMM = Austrian composer and royal kapellmeister = [died: 1858]
29 July: CARL BORROMAUS NEUNER = German composer = [died: 1830]
3 September: JEAN NICOLAS AUGUSTE KREUTZER = French composer = [died: 1832]
14 November: JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL = Austrian composer = [died: 1837]

Timeline of Events

1 January: Première of WILLIAM BOYCE's "When rival nations great in arms"
14 January: WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART, while visiting Mannheim, meets local composer GEORG JOSEPH VOGLER.
27 January: NICCOLÒ PICCINNI's first French opera, Roland, is premièred at the Paris Opera.
14 February: WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART writes to his father, LEOPOLD MOZART, telling him how much he hates composing for the flute.
17 February: IGNAZ UMLAUF's Die Bergknappen becomes the first singspiel by a local composer to be performed in Vienna.
1 March: CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK returns to Vienna after a residence of ten years in Paris.
2 March: The Nationaltheater of Vienna's opera buffa company gives its final performance.
15 March: THOMAS ARNE is buried at St Paul’s, Covent Garden.
20 March: JIŘÍ ANTONÍN BENDA leaves his post as Kapellmeister at the court of Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
26 March: Seven-year-old LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN gives his first concert performance, at Cologne.
8 April: ANTONIO SALIERI leaves Vienna after a twelve-year absence from his native Italy.
1 May: ANNA MARIA MOZART complains of various ailments in a letter from Paris. She dies there two months later.
4 June: King George III of the United Kingdom celebrates his 40th birthday; "Arm’d with her native force", an ode composed by WILLIAM BOYCE for the occasion, is performed for the first time.
9 July: MOZART writes to his father complaining about the French language and the poor standard of singing.
13 July: LEOPOLD MOZART learns of his wife's death from a family friend, ABBÉ JOSEPH BULLINGER.
24 July: The première of GIOVANNI PAISIELLO's Lo sposo burlato takes place at the Russian court.
3 August: Teatro alla Scala, Milan, opens with a performance of ANTONIO SALIERI's latest opera, Europa riconosciuta.
27 August: MOZART meets JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH in Paris.
14 October: WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART arrives in Strasbourg, where he will give three concerts.