Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

30 January: GEORGE AUGUSTUS KOLLMANN = German composer = [died: 1845]
1 February: HIPPOLYTE ANDRÉ JEAN BAPTISTE CHÉLARD = French conductor & composer = [died: 1861]
8 February: LUDWIG WILHELM MAURER = German violinist, conductor and composer = [died: 1878]
15 February: FRIEDRICH FESCA = German composer and violinist = [died: 1826]
27 June: FRIEDRICH SILCHER = German composer = [died: 1860]
1 September: FRANZ ANTON ADAM STOCKHAUSEN = German harp virtuoso, teacher and composer = [died: 1868]
18 October: GIOVANNI TADOLINI = Italian composer, conductor and singing instructor = [died: 1872]
24 October: RAMON CARNICER Y BATLLE = Catalan composer and opera conductor = [died: 1855]
26 October: JOSEPH MAYSEDER = Austrian violin virtuoso and composer = [died: 1863]
28 October: JOHANN GOTTLOB SCHNEIDER = German organist and composer = [died: 1864]
13 November: MARTIN DE RON = Swedish composer = [died: 1817]
8 December: JOHN FAWCETT = English organist, choir leader, and composer = [died: 1867]
14 December: MARIA AGATA SZYMANOWSKA = Polish composer = [died: 1831]

Timeline of Musical Events

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART travels to Berlin.
JOSEPH HAYDN meets MARIA ANNA VON GENZINGER.
ADALBERT GYROWETZ arrives in Paris.
LUIGI CHERUBINI becomes music director for the Théâtre Monsieur.
WILHELM FRIEDRICH ERNST BACH becomes Kapellmeister at Berlin.
ANNA STORACE appears in a London production of GIOVANNI PAISIELLO's Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
MOZART writes to his fellow Freemason and benefactor, PUCHBERG, saying that next time they meet, he will tell him about ANTONIO SALIERI's plots "which, however, have completely failed".
IGNAZ JOSEPH PLEYEL becomes Kapellmeister of Strasbourg Cathedral in succession to FRANZ XAVER RICHTER.