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EVENTS

Royal Academy Of Music opens in London .

Domenico Scarlatti arrives in Lisbon .

CLASSICAL MUSIC

''Prelude for Lute in C minor'' - Johann Sebastian Bach

''Horae Pomeridianae'' - Jan Josef Ignac Brentner

''Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris'' - Marin Marais

''Messa di Santa Cecilia'' - Alessandro Scarlatti

OPERA

Antonio Maria Bononcini - ''Nino''

George Frideric Handel - '' Radamisto ''

Johann David Heinichen - ''Flavio Crispo''

Leonardo Leo - ''Caio Gracco''

Giovanni Porta - ''Numitore''

Antonio Vivaldi - ''La verità in cimento''

BIRTHS

January 4 - Johann Friedrich Agricola , composer

November 16 - Carlo Antonio Campioni , composer

October 17 - Maria Teresa Agnesi , singer and composer

''probable'' - Bernhard Joachim Hagen , composer

DEATHS

July 27 - Johann Samuel Welter , composer

July - Maria Barbara Bach , first wife of Johann Sebastian Bach