Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 13 February:   JAMES P. CARRELL = American singing teacher and composer = [died: 1854]
• 24 February:   CHRISTIAN FREDERIK BARTH = Danish oboist and composer = [died: 1861]
• 15 August:   ALEXANDER ALIABIEV = Russian composer = [died: 1851]
• 17 November:   MICHELE CARAFA = Italian composer = [died: 1872]
• 25 November:   FRANZ XAVER GRUBER = Austrian organist and composer of "Silent Night" = [died: 1863]
• 4 December:   JOHAN FREDRIK BERWALD = Swedish violinist, conductor and composer = [died: 1861]


• date unknown:
• CATHARINA TORENBERG = Finnish violinist = [died: 1866]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 1 February: A posthumous performance of ANTONIO SACCHINI's Œdipe à Colone at the Paris Opéra results in the previously unsuccessful opera becoming one of the most popular pieces in the repertoire for several decades.
• 10 August: WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART's light work, Eine kleine Nachtmusik, written as a distraction from the composition of his opera Don Giovanni, is performed at an evening entertainment in Vienna.
• December: ANGELO TARCHI is appointed music director and composer at the King's Theatre in London.


• Undated:
• LUIGI BOCCHERINI becomes court composer in Berlin.
• LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN goes to Vienna, where he meets MOZART, but his mother's death forces him to return to Bonn.
• LUIGI CHERUBINI settles in Paris.

Publications

• Scots Musical Museum, vol. 1

Published Popular Music

• ROBERT BURNS
• "The Battle of Sherramuir" (to a traditional tune)

Classical Music

• MUZIO CLEMENTI
• Two Symphonies
• GIUSEPPE GHERARDESCHI
• Sonata for Organ "In the Guise of a Military Band..."
• JOSEPH HAYDN
• The Seven Last Words of Christ
• Symphony No. 88 in G
• JOSEPH MARTIN KRAUS
• Symphony in E minor
• WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
• Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
• String Quintet in G minor
• PHILIP PHILE
• Violin Concerto (lost)

Opera

• ANTOINE BALLANT
• Dobrodetel'nïy volshebnik
• GIUSEPPE GAZZANIGA
• Don Giovanni
• WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
• Don Giovanni (first performed in Prague in the Estates Theatre, libretto by LORENZO DA PONTE)
• ANTONIO SALIERI
• Tarare (libretto by BEAUMARCHAIS)
• VICENTE MARTÍN Y SOLER
• L'arbore di Diana