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

Events

• Johann Sebastian Bach examines the organ at the Johanniskirche, Leipzig
• March 23 - English premiere of Handel's Messiah in London

Classical music

• George Frideric Handel

• Samson (oratorio)
• Semele (oratorio)

Opera

• Bernard de Bury - Les Caractères de la folie
• Baldassare Galuppi - Enrico

Births

• February 19 - Luigi Boccherini, composer (died 1805)
• October 5 - Giuseppe Gazzaniga, composer (died 1818)

Deaths

• February 1 - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni (born 1657)
• February 7, Lodovico Giustini, composer (born 1685)