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EVENTS

Georg Frideric Handel meets Domenico Scarlatti in Venice .

Johann Sebastian Bach marries his cousin, Maria Barbara.

Antonio Caldara leaves his post in Mantua to become ''maestro di cappella'' to Prince Ruspoli in Rome.

William Croft becomes "Master of the Children" at the Chapel Royal, in succession to Clarke.

PUBLISHED POPULAR MUSIC

''Hymns and Spiritual Songs'' by Isaac Watts (including "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross")

CLASSICAL MUSIC

J. S. Bach - ''Christ lag in Todesbanden'' (cantata)

Alessandro Scarlatti - ''Cain, overo Il primo omicidio'' (oratorio)

OPERA

Nicola Fago - ''Radamisto''

Handel - '' Rodrigo ''

Johann Christoph Pepusch - ''Thomyris, Queen of Scythia''

Agostino Steffani - ''Arminio''

BIRTHS

December 18 - Charles Wesley , hymn-writer

''date unknown'' - Michel Corrette , organist and composer

DEATHS

April 20 - Johann Christoph Denner , inventor of the clarinet

May 9 - Dieterich Buxtehude , composer

December 1 - Jeremiah Clarke , composer