Mark's Music Circus
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Music Events of

Births

8 January: JOHN WHITE = American composer = [died: 1839]
15 January: JEAN CORALLI = French ballet producer and choreographer = [died: 1854]
5 February: FRANS VAN CAMPENHOUT = Belgian singer and composer = [died: 1848]
22 February: JOACHIM NICOLAS EGGERT = Swedish composer = [died: 1813]
23 February: JOHANN CASPAR AIBLINGER = German composer = [died: 1867]
1 March: JACOB GOTTFRIED WEBER = German composer = [died: 1839]
13 March: OLIVER SHAW = American composer = [died: 1848]
21 April: WILLIAM KNYVETT = British singer and composer = [died: 1856]
28 May: THOMAS MOORE = Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer = [died: 1852]
1 August: FRANCIS SCOTT KEY = American songwriter = [died: 1843]
10 September: LOUIS ALEXANDRE PICCINNI = French composer = [died: 1850]
15 October: JOHAN O. WALLIN = Swedish songwriting bishop = [died: 1839]

Timeline of Events

16 February: Composer WILLIAM BOYCE is buried in St Paul's Cathedral. The music at his funeral features the massed choirs of St Paul's itself, Westminster Abbey and the Chapel Royal.
April: The London Magazine reports on the organ-playing of three-year-old prodigy WILLIAM CROTCH.
26 December: Teatro alla Scala in Milan opens its operatic carnival season with JOSEF MYSLIVEČEK's new opera Armida.

The opera house at Eszterháza burns down.
Mezzo-soprano LUIGIA POLZELLI and her violinist husband Antonio arrive at the Esterházy court, where she quickly becomes the lover of JOSEPH HAYDN.