Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 2 February:   ISABELLA COLBRAN = Spanish coloratura soprano = [died: 1845]
• 19 March:   PIERRE-JOSEPH-GUILLAUME ZIMMERMANN = French composer = [died: 1853
• 4 April:   BETTINA BRENTANO = German composer and writer = [died: 1859]
• 19 April:   ALEXANDRE PIERRE FRANÇOIS BOËLY = French composer = [died: 1858]
• 18 August:   FRIEDRICH WIECK = German piano teacher, father of CLARA SCHUMANN = [died: 1873]
• 5 September:   THOMAS ADAMS = English organist and composer = [died: 1858]
• 11 September:   ALPHEUS BABCOCK = American piano maker = [died: 1842]
• 2 November:   FRIEDRICH KALKBRENNER = German-born French pianist and composer = [died: 1849]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 1 January: GIOVANNI PAISIELLO officially leaves his employment at the court of Catherine the Great in Russia, having returned to Italy some months earlier.
• 12 January: WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART's Die Entführung aus dem Serail is produced by impresario PASQUALE BONDINI's company in Dresden.
• 15 January: The first performance of WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART's six string quartets dedicated to JOSEPH HAYDN (or possibly just three of them) is given in MOZART's own home.
• 21 January: Soprano NANCY STORACE, who was about to give birth, was replaced as Rosina in a Vienna production of GIOVANNI PAISIELLO's Il Barbiere Di Siviglia by LUISA LASCHI, to great acclaim.
• 7 February: LEOPOLD MOZART leaves Munich for Vienna, with a pupil, HEINRICH MARCHAND, in tow.
• 26 February: Polish violinist FELIKS JANIEWICZ makes what was probably his debut as a soloist in a concert at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
• 7 March: King FERDINAND I of Naples awards a lifetime annual salary of 1,200 ducats to GIOVANNI PAISIELLO, on the understanding that the latter writes one new opera every year.
• 28 March: DOMENICO CIMAROSA becomes second organist at the Chapel Royal of Naples.
• 19 September: AMÉLIE-JULIE CANDEILLE makes her Comédie-Française début as a singer.
• 13 October: The Lord Chamberlain, JAMES CECIL, Earl of Salisbury, refuses to grant a licence to GIOVANNI GALLINI for his Italian Opera House in London, unless he appoints a Mr. Crawford as deputy manager.
• 26 October: JOSEPH HAYDN receives a visit from Venetian revolutionary FRANCISCO DE MIRANDA, to whom he gives a guided tour of Schloss Esterházy.
• 22 November: The Hermitage Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia, is officially opened.


• Undated:
• Composer JOHN ANTES is appointed warder of the Fulneck Moravian Settlement in England
• Composer SUPPLY BELCHER settles in Maine.
• Opera composer MICHELE MORTELLARI relocates to London from his native Italy.
• PIETRO LEOPOLDO, Grand Duke of Tuscany appoints FILIPPO MARIA GHERARDESCHI organist and maestro di cappella at the Chiesa Conventuale dei Cavalieri di S Stefano at Pisa.
• Violinist REGINA STRINASACCHI marries JOHANN CONRAD SCHLICK, cellist & Konzertmeister of the Gotha ducal band.

Published Popular Music

• "Cara sposa" m. JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH from the cantata Rinaldo ed Armide
• "Song of the Page" m. WILLIAM SHIELDS from Follies of a Day, or The Marriage of Figaro
• "Black-eyed Susan", by ROBERT BRODERIP

Classical Music

• LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
• Three quartets for harpsichord, violin, viola, and cello, in E♭ major, D major, and C major, WoO 36
• WILLIAM BILLINGS
• "I Was Glad When They Said Unto Me, We Will Go Into The House Of Ye Lord"
• WILLIAM BOYCE
• Ten Voluntaries
• MUZIO CLEMENTI
• Six piano sonatas, op. 13
• JOSEPH HAYDN
• Symphonies 83 in G minor "La poule" and 85 in B flat "La Reine"
• WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
• Piano Concertos 20 in D minor and 21 in C major
• String Quartet in C, "Dissonance"
• IGNAZ PLEYEL
• String Quartet
• JOHANN SCHENK
• Die Weinlese (singspiel)
• JOHN STANLEY
• "Delusive is the poet's dream"

Opera

• GAETANO ANDREOZZI
• Giasone e Medea
• MARCELLO BERNARDINI
• Le donne bisbetiche, o sia L'antiquario fanatico
• Teatro Pace, Rome (during carnival)
• PIERRE JOSEPH CANDEILLE
• Pizarre, ou La conquête de Pérou
• Opéra, Paris (3 May)
• LUIGI CHERUBINI
• La finta principessa
• King's Theatre, London (9 April)
• PROSPER-DIDIER DESHAYES
• Le Faux serment
• CARL DITTERS VON DITTERSDORF
• Der Hufschmied (Der gelehrte Hufschmied) (German version, text translated by J. C. Kaffka, of Il maniscalco, 1775)
• Breslau (13 May)
• 25 000 Gulden oder im Dunkeln ist gut munkeln
• Vienna
• ROBERT JEPHSON
• Campaign, or Love in the East Indies
• Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London (12 May)
• THOMAS LINLEY
• Hurly-Burly, or The Fairy of the Well
• Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London (26 December)
• Strangers at Home
• Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London (8 December)
• MICHELE MORTELLARI
• Armida abbandonata
• Teatro della Pergola, Florence (autumn)
• L'infanta supposta
• Teatro Ducale, Modena
• IGNAZ PLEYEL
• Ifigenia in Aulide
• JOHANN FRIEDRICH REICHARDT
• Artemisia
• ANTONIO SALIERI
• La Grotta di Trofonio
• WILLIAM SHIELD
• The Nunnery
• Covent Garden, London (12 April)
• The Choleric Fathers
• Covent Garden, London (10 November)
• Omai, or A Trip Round the World
• Covent Garden, London (20 December)
• STEPHEN STORACE
• Gli sposi malcontenti
• Burgtheater, Vienna (1 June)