Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 22 January:   FRANÇOIS ANTOINE HABENECK = French violinist and conductor = [died: 1849]
• 11 March:   ANTHONY PHILIP HEINRICH = American composer = [died: 1861]
• 20 July:   SOPHIE LEBRUN = German pianist and composer, daughter of Ludwig August Lebrun = [died: 1863]
• 27 July:   MAURO GIULIANI = Italian guitarist, cellist and composer = [died: 1829]
• 5 September:   ANTON DIABELLI = Austrian music publisher, editor and composer = [died: 1858]
• 6 September:   VINCENT NOVELLO = English organist and conductor = [died: 1861]
• 18 November:   FELICE BLANGINI = Italian organist and composer = [died: 1841]
• 1 December:   CHARLES PHILIPPE LAFONT = French violinist and composer = [died: 1839]

Timeline of Events

• March: WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART moves to Vienna to pursue his career, but is passed over in favour of ANTONIO SALIERI as music teacher of Princess of Württemberg.
• 27 June:
• MOZART writes of his new pupil and admirer, JOSEPHA BARBARA AUERNHAMMER: "I am almost every day after dinner at H: v: Auernhammer - The freulle is a monster!"
• CHRISTIAN GOTTLOB NEEFE takes on the young LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN as a pupil.
• 29 July: MOZART receives the original libretto of his next opera, Die Entführung aus dem Serail from the director of the Nationalsingspiel, GOTTLIEB STEPHANIE.
• 12 October: First bagpipes competition in the Masonic Arms, Falkirk, Scotland.


• Undated:
• ÉTIENNE MÉHUL makes his first, unsuccessful attempts at orchestral composition.

Classical Music

• JOSEPH HAYDN:
• String Quartets, Op. 33
• GIOVANNI PAISIELLO:
• Concerto for Keyboard no 1 in C major
• SAMUEL WESLEY:
• Concerto for Violin no 2 in D major

Opera

• MILES PETER ANDREWS & SAMUEL ARNOLD:
• The Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakingatchdern
• ANTONIO CALEGARI:
• Deucalione e Pirra
• DOMENICO CIMAROSA:
• Giannina e Bernardone
• ELIZABETH CRAVEN et al:
• The Silver Tankard
• NICOLAS DALAYRAC:
• Le Chevalier à la mode
• MARC-ANTOINE DÉSAUGIERS:
• Les Deux sylphes
• JOSEPH HAYDN:
• La fedeltà premiata
• WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART:
• Idomeneo
• NICCOLÒ PICCINNI:
• Iphigenie en Tauride
• ANTONIO SALIERI:
• Der Rauchfangkehrer
• GIUSEPPE SARTI:
• Giulio Sabino
• NICCOLÒ ANTONIO ZINGARELLI:
• Montesuma