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

[edit] Events

• January 18 - Carl Stenborg, Elisabeth Olin and Hedvig Wigert star in Thetis and Phelée, the inaugural production of the Royal Swedish Opera.
• February - Joseph Leutgeb tours Italy with Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart goes to Vienna in search of work.
• James Hook vacates his post at Marylebone Gardens.

[edit] Opera

• Pasquale Anfossi - Demofoonte
• Domenico Cimarosa - La finta parigina
• Joseph Haydn - L'infedeltà delusa; Philemon und Baucis
• Andrea Luchesi - L'Inganno Scoperto, overo Il Conte Caramella (libretto by Carlo Goldoni)
• Anton Schweitzer - Alceste (libretto by Christoph Martin Wieland)

[edit] Classical music

• Johann Albrechtsberger - Concerto for Harp in C major
• Samuel Arnold - The Prodigal Son (oratorio)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony No. 25 in G minor
• Giovanni Battista Sammartini - Six String Quintets

[edit] Births

• January 4 - Johann Peter Heuschkel, composer
• February 2 - Vincenc Tomas Vaclav Tucek, composer
• March 4 - Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, composer
• March 7 - Tommaso Marchesi, composer
• April 8 - Josephina Grassini, soprano
• May 26 - Hans Georg Nageli, composer
• June 3 - Michael Gottard Fischer, composer
• July 6 - Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, composer
• July 23 - Karl Ludwig Hellwig, composer
• August 25 - Franz Nikolaus Novotny, composer
• September 24 - Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer
• October 23 - Pietro Generali, composer
• December 9 - Marianne Ehrenström, Musician and writer
• December 24 - Joseph Wölfl, pianist and composer
• exact date unknown - Edward Bunting, Irish folk song collector
• Inga Åberg, opera singer and actress

[edit] Deaths

• April 11 - Carlo Grua, composer (b. c. 1700)
• April 12 - Elizabeth Young, operatic contralto and actress (b. c. 1730)
• May 24 - Jan Zach, violinist, organist and composer (b. 1699)
• July 12 - Johann Joachim Quantz, flautist and composer (b. 1697)
• date unknown
  • Francis Hutcheson (songwriter) (b. c. 1722)
  • Joan Baptista Pla, oboist and composer (b. c. 1720)
  • Hester Santlow, "England's first ballerina" (b. c. 1690)