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EVENTS

Alessandro Scarlatti returns to Naples from Venice.

Johann Sebastian Bach becomes organist and concert-master at the Weimar court.

PUBLISHED POPULAR MUSIC

''Lyra Davidica'' (hymns)

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Arcangelo Corelli - '' Twelve Concerti Grossi ''

OPERA

André Campra - ''Hippodamie''

George Frideric Handel - ''Daphne'', '' Florindo ''

Nicola Porpora - ''Aggripina''

BIRTHS

January 26 - William Hayes , composer

February 8 - Vaclav Jan Kopriva , composer

February 9 - Egidio Romoaldo Duni , composer of opera comique

April 6 - George Reuter , composer

April 8 - Carl Georg Reutter , composer of church music

June 19 - Johann Gottlieb Janitsch , composer

November 4 - Robert Praelisauer , composer

December 4 - Marianus Konigsperger , composer

''date unknown'' - Lavinia Fenton , actress, the original Polly Peachum

DEATHS

January 23 - Thomas Bullis , composer

May 27 - Jacques Danican Philidor , composer

August 4 - Vincenzo De Grandis , composer

October 1 - John Blow , composer

''date unknown'' - Giovanni Battista Draghi , composer and keyboardist