Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

10 February: JOHANN PETER PIXIS = German pianist and composer = [died: 1874]
20 August: JOSÉ BERNARDO ALCEDO = Peruvian composer = [died: 1878]
11 October: SIMON SECHTER = Austrian music theorist, teacher, organist, conductor and composer = [died: 1867]

BRITA CATHARINA LIDBECK = Swedish concert singer and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music = [died: 1864]

Timeline of Musical Events

9 January: The elderly CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH reviews JOHANN NIKOLAUS FORKEL's book Allgemeine Geschichte der Musik in the Hamburgischer unpartheyischer Correspondent.
22 January: Composer IGNAZ PLEYEL marries FRANZISKA GABRIELLE IGNATIA LEFEBVRE, daughter of a tapestry maker.
6 February: The Kärntnertortheater in Vienna closes, after the German Opera Company disbands.
12 February: ANTONIO SALIERI is appointed Imperial Royal Kapellmeister by Emperor JOSEPH II OF AUSTRIA, in succession to GIUSEPPE BONNO, who is forcibly retired.
6 March: DOMENICO CIMAROSA, recently invited to St Petersburg by the Empress CATHERINE II OF RUSSIA, premières his La felicità inaspetata, which fails to impress his new patron.
29 April: Première of ANTONIO SACCHINI's "tragédie lyrique" completed after the composer's death by JEAN-BAPTISTE REY.
25 June: Publication of three string quintets (K.406, 515, 516) by WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART is postponed for a year because of a lack of take-up of subscriptions.
17 July: CARL DITTERS VON DITTERSDORF is officially dismissed from his post as Amtshauptmann of Freiwaldau, but actually continues in the position for another seven years.
25 November: Three weeks before his death, CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH writes his last known letter, to JOHANN JACOB HEINRICH WESTPHAL.