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EVENTS

Handel moves to 25 Brook Street, London, now the Handel House Museum .

Alessandro Scarlatti begins his last major work, a serenata for the marriage of the prince of Stigliano, which will be left unfinished at his death.

Publication of ''Opinioni de' cantori antichi e moderni'' by Pier Francesco Tosi .

Francesco Maria Veracini returns to Florence after a period in Germany.

Johann Sebastian Bach is appointed Cantor and Musical Director of the Thomaskirche, Leipzig .

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Johann Sebastian Bach - ''Two-Part Invention no 6 in E major'' for violin and cello

Antonio Maria Bononcini - ''Stabat Mater''

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

Georg Philipp Telemann - ''Overture-Suite in C major, TV 55 no C 3 "Wassermusik"''

Jan Dismas Zelenka - ''Concerto a 8 in G major''

OPERA

Giovanni Bononcini - ''Erminia''

Francesco Feo - ''Morano e Rosina''

George Frideric Handel - '' Ottone ''

Leonardo Leo - ''La’mpeca scoperta''

BIRTHS

December 22 - Karl Friedrich Abel , composer

DEATHS

September 23 - William Babell , organist and composer