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EVENTS

Antonio Vivaldi tours Italy.

Handel succeeds Johann Christoph Pepusch as Kapellmeister to the Duke of Chandos.

Johann Joachim Quantz settles in Dresden.

CLASSICAL MUSIC

''Esther'' (oratorio) - George Frideric Handel

''Concerti grossi, Op. 3: no 12 in C major "Christmas Concerto"'' - Francesco Manfredini

OPERA

Antonio Maria Bononcini - ''Astianatte'' and ''Griselda''

George Frideric Handel - ''Acis and Galatea''

Nicola Porpora - ''Berenice regina d'Egitto''

Alessandro Scarlatti - ''Telemaco''

Antonio Vivaldi - ''Scanderbeg''

BIRTHS

''exact date unknown'' - Carl Heinrich Biber , composer and son of Heinrich Franz Biber

DEATHS

''none listed''