Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

3 January: JOHANN CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH SCHNEIDER = German composer and conductor = [died: 1853]
21 June: CHARLES EDWARD HORN = English singer and composer = [died: 1849]
11 September: FRIEDRICH KUHLAU = German-born Danish composer [died: 1832]
10 November: CARL EBERWEIN = German violinist and composer = [died: 1868]
18 November:

CARL MARIA VON WEBER = German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist = [died: 1826]
Sir HENRY BISHOP = English Professor of Music at Oxford = [died: 1855]

JOSÉ MARIANO ELÍZAGA = Mexican composer, music theorist, pianist, organist and teacher = [died: 1842]
KONSTANTINOS NIKOLOPOULOS = Greek composer = [died: 1841]
ELENA PUCIĆ-SORKOČEVIĆ = Croatian composer = [died: 1865]

Timeline of Musical Events

21 January: LUIGI BOCCHERINI becomes an official composer to Frederick William of Prussia.
7 February: Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, presents a festival at Schönbrunn Palace, at which new compositions by both WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART and ANTONIO SALIERI are performed.
28 April: LEOPOLD MOZART writes to his daughter, Maria Anna Mozart, predicting failure for his son's latest opera, The Marriage of Figaro.
18 October: LEOPOLD MOZART is given a blood test on the same day that his daughter-in-law Constanze Mozart gives birth to her third child, Johann Thomas Leopold; the baby dies a month later, Leopold the following year.
7 November: America's oldest singing society is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
24 November: KARL DITTERS VON DITTERSDORF unsuccessfully seeks employment with the newly-enthroned King Frederick William II of Prussia.

In Britain, WILLIAM PARSONS succeeds JOHN STANLEY as Master of the King's Musick.
In Benares, JIWAN SHAH and FRANCIS FOWKE conduct an experiment comparing the pitch of the harpsichord with that of a traditional Indian instrument.
GEORG JOSEPH VOGLER is appointed Kapellmeister to King Gustav III of Sweden.