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EVENTS

A school of dance opens at the Paris Opera .

Domenico Scarlatti becomes ''maestro di cappella'' at the Cappella Giulia in the Vatican.

Francesco Geminiani arrives in London , where he obtains the patronage of William Capel, 3rd Earl Of Essex .

Georg Melchior Hoffmann , composer, marries Margaretha Elisabeth Philipp; he is already suffering from a terminal illness.

Francesco Maria Veracini visits London and performs at the Queen's Theatre.

CLASSICAL MUSIC

''Utrecht Te Deum'' - George Frideric Handel

''The Little Organ Book'' - Johann Sebastian Bach

OPERA

Leonardo Leo - ''Pisistrato''

Jean-Joseph Mouret - ''Les Fêtes ou Le Triomphe de Thalie''

BIRTHS

March 8 - Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach

March 24 - Carlo Giovanni Testori , composer

July 2 - Christoph Willibald Gluck

September 10 - Niccolò Jommelli , composer

September 25 - Jean-Benoit Leclair , composer

December 23 - Johann Siebenkas , composer

DEATHS

April 17 - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach , composer

''date unknown'' - Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers , organist