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List of years in music (Table)
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Contents 1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Opera 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• The "War of the Buffoons" (La Querelle des Bouffons) divides Paris.
• Francesco Geminiani publishes "The Art of Playing on the Violin" in London.

[edit] Classical music

• 1751 is the year commonly given as the beginning of the classical era
• Antoine Dauvergne - Concerts de Simphonies
• Johann Sebastian Bach Kunst der Fuge (posthumously)
• John Francis Wade O Come All Ye Faithful

[edit] Opera

• Johann Adolf Hasse - Ciro Riconosciuto
• Niccolò Jommelli - La villana nobile; Ifigenia in Aulide
• Jean-Philippe Rameau - Acante et Céphise
• Giuseppe Sarti - Pompeo in Armenia

[edit] Births

• March 5 - Jan Krtitel Kuchar, composer
• February 4 - Blas de Laserna, composer
• February 9 - Antoine Bullant, bassoonist and composer (died 1821)

[edit] Deaths

• January 17 - Tomaso Albinoni (born 1671)
• February 18 - Giuseppe Matteo Alberti, composer (born 1685)
• May 20 - Domingo Terradellas, composer (born 1713)
• date unknown - Pierre Dumage, organist (born c. 1674)