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During a performance of his own ''Te Deum'', Lully injures his foot with the point of his cane; this results in death from gangrene a few weeks later.

Jean-Nicolas Francine , Lully's son-in-law, becomes director of the Paris Opera.

PUBLISHED POPULAR MUSIC

CLASSICAL MUSIC

John Blow - ''Ode for New Year's Day''

OPERA

Giuseppe Fabrini - ''Lodovico''

BIRTHS

December 5 - Francesco Geminiani , composer

December 26 - Johann Georg Pisendel , composer

''date unknown'' - Sylvius Leopold Weiss , lutenist and composer

DEATHS

March 22 - Jean-Baptiste Lully , composer

''date unknown'' - Giovanni Battista Granata , guitarist and composer

''date unknown'' - Michael Wise , organist and composer