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Contents 1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Opera 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Castrato Giovanni Carestini goes to work for Maria Theresa of Austria.

[edit] Classical music

• Thomas Arne - The Death of Abel (oratorio)
• Johann Sebastian Bach - Das wohltemperierte Klavier, part 2
• Johan Helmich Roman - Drottningholm Music (Music for a Royal Wedding)
• Francesco Maria Veracini - L'errore di Salomone (oratorio)

[edit] Opera

• Daniele Dal Barba - Il Tigrane
• Christoph Willibald Gluck - Ipermestra
• George Frideric Handel - Semele
• John Frederick Lampe - The Kiss Accepted and Returned

[edit] Births

• ?May - Marianne von Martinez, singer, pianist and composer (d. 1812)
• May 3 - Friedrich Wilhelm Weis, composer
• date unknown
  • Gaetano Brunetti, Italian composer (d. 1798)
  • Charles le Picq, French dancer and choreographer (d. 1806)

[edit] Deaths

• January 14 - Charles-Hubert Gervais, composer (born 1671)
• January 20 - Richard Jones, violinist and composer
• February 15 - František Václav Míča, conductor and composer (born 1694)
• March 22 - Georg Lenck, German musician (born 1685)
• April 26 - Domenico Sarro, Italian composer (born 1679)
• June 29 - André Campra, composer (born 1660)
• October 17 - Giuseppe Guarneri, violin-maker (born 1698)
• October 31 - Leonardo Leo, composer (born 1694)
• date unknown
  • Claude Balon, dancer and choreographer
  • Francesca Vanini-Boschi, operatic contralto