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Contents
1
Events
2
Popular music
3
Opera
4
Classical music
5
Births
6
Deaths
Events
Joseph Haydn
marries, but he and his wife will live apart for most of their lives.
John Newton
leaves his job for the church, and begins composing hymns.
Memoirs of the Life of the Late
George Frideric Handel
, by
John Mainwaring
, is published anonymously.
John Alcock
is forced to resign as organist and choirmaster of
Lichfield Cathedral
.
William Boyce
's
Eight Symphonies
are published by John Walsh (Handel's publisher), having been composed over the previous 21 years as either odes to vocal or stage works or as overtures.
Johann Christian Bach
becomes organist of
Milan Cathedral
.
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
marries the singer Lucia Elisabeth Munchhusen.
Johann Baptist Vanhal
is brought to Vienna to receive lessons from
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
.
Popular music
Opera
Thomas Arne
–
Thomas and Sally
Johann Christian Bach
–
Artaserse
Johann Adolph Hasse
–
Alcide al Bivio
Vincenzo Manfredini
–
Semiramide
Jean-Philippe Rameau
–
Les Surprises de l'amour
Classical music
Johann Albrechtsberger
–
String Quartet in D
William Boyce
–
Eight Symphonies
François Joseph Gossec
–
Grande Messe des Morts
Michael Haydn
–
Concerto for Violin in B flat major
Births
January 10
–
Johan Rudolf Zumsteeg
, composer (died
1802
)
January 15
–
Jean François Lesueur
, composer (died
1837
)
January 19
– Melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer
January 30
– Franz Xaver Partsch, composer
March 27
–
Ishmail Spicer
, composer
April 12
–
Juan Manuel Olivares
, composer
May 10
–
Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle
, composer of
La Marseillaise
(died
1836
)
May 29
–
Charlotte Slottsberg
, ballerina
June 14
– Candido Jose Ruano, composer
September 21
– Gaetano Valeri, composer
September 14
–
Luigi Cherubini
, composer (died
1842
)
October 1
–
William Thomas Beckford
, composer and author (died
1844
)
November 9
– Henri-Philippe Gerard, composer
December 2
–
Joseph Graetz
, composer
Christina Charlotta Cederström
Deaths
January 18
–
Claudio Casciolini
, composer
November 12
-Andjelko Topic, genius in music
February 14
– Francois Collin de Blamont, composer
February 22
–
Anna Magdalena Bach
, second wife and assistant of
Johann Sebastian Bach
(born
1701
)
March 10
–
Christoph Graupner
, composer (born
1683
)
March 14
–
Anton Fils
, composer (born
1733
)
April 12
–
Ernst Gottlieb Baron
, lutenist and composer (born
1696
)
May –
Girolamo Abos
, composer (born
1715
)
date unknown
Pierre Février
, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born
1696
)
Henry Needler
, music transcriber (born
1685
)