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Contents 1 Events 2 Popular music 3 Opera 4 Classical music 5 Births 6 Deaths

Events

• Wilhelm Friedemann Bach leaves his post as organist at Halle.
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart becomes a pupil of Johann Christian Bach.

Popular music

• None listed

Opera

• La rencontre imprévue - Christoph Willibald Gluck
• Siroe re di Persia - Pietro Guglielmi
• Gli stravaganti - Niccolò Piccinni
• L'Isola della Fortuna - Andrea Luchesi

Classical music

• Symphony no 22 ("Philosopher") by Joseph Haydn
• Trumpet Concerto - Michael Haydn
• Matins for the Virgin of Guadalupe by Ignacio de Jerusalem

Births

• February 8 - Joseph Leopold Eybler, composer (died 1846)
• May 15 - Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, composer (died 1827)
• July 1 - Georg Christoph Grosheim, composer (died 1841)
• September 11 - Valentino Fioravanti, composer (died 1837)
• September 15 - Friedrich Heine (died 1821) and Paolo Francesco Parenti, composers (died 1822)
• October 14 - Charles-Henri Plantade, composer (died 1839)
• November 30 - Franz Xaver Gerl, composer (died 1827)
• December 10 - Louis-Sebastien Lebrun, composer
• unknown date - Vincenzo Fabrizi, composer

Deaths

• March 30 - Pietro Locatelli, violinist and composer (born 1695)
• April 17 - Johann Mattheson, German musicologist (born 1681)
• June 11 - Christoph Stoltzenberg, composer (born 1690)
• September 12 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer (born 1683)
• October 22 - Jean-Marie Leclair, composer (born 1697)
• November 30 - Dieudonne Raick, composer (born 1703)
• unknown date - Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, organist and composer, son of Johann Pachelbel (born c.1685)