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EVENTS

George Frideric Handel becomes a British subject.

Johann Sebastian Bach copies and performs 18 church Cantata s written by his cousin, Johann Ludwig Bach .

CLASSICAL MUSIC

OPERA

Tomaso Albinoni - ''La Statira''

Francesco Ciampi - ''Lucio Vero''

Giovanni Battista Martini - ''Azione teatrale''

Nicola Porpora - ''Imeneo in Atene''

Antonio Vivaldi - ''Cunegonda''

MUSICAL THEATER

BIRTHS

April 12 - Charles Burney , music historian (d. 1814)

DEATHS

January 2 - Domenico Zipoli , composer

June 18 - Michel Richard Delalande , composer