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EVENTS

Johann Sebastian Bach gets a summer job as a violinist at the court of Weimar.

Antonio Vivaldi starts composing for the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice .

Alessandro Scarlatti becomes Maestro di Cappella at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome .

George Frideric Handel gives up his legal studies at the University Of Halle for a music course at Hamburg.

Jakob Greber makes his London debut as a theatre composer.

Nicolas Bernier publishes his first cantatas, the earliest in the French Language .

CLASSICAL MUSIC

François Couperin - ''Versets'' (sacred music)

OPERA

Antonio Caldara - ''Farnace''

Francesco Gasparini - ''Amor della patria''

Domenico Scarlatti - ''Il Giustino''

MUSICAL THEATER

William Corbett - ''As You Find It''

BIRTHS

''date unknown'' - John Frederick Lampe , musician

DEATHS

March 31 - Johann Christoph Bach , organist and composer

November 30 - Nicolas De Grigny , organist and composer