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EVENTS

Giuseppe Tartini opens a school for violinists in Padua .

Johann Georg Pisendel begins studying composition under Johann David Heinichen .

Domenico Scarlatti returns to Rome, where he meets his first wife.

Johann Joachim Quantz visits Berlin and performs in the presence of the Crown Prince Of Prussia , who insists on taking lessons from him.

Deafness forces Johann Mattheson to retire from his post as musical director of Hamburg Cathedral.

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Georg Philipp Telemann - ''Gulliver-Suite''

OPERA

George Frideric Handel - '' Tolomeo , re di Egitto''

Leonardo Leo - ''La pastorella commattuta''

Leonardo Vinci - ''Didone Abandonnata''

MUSICAL THEATER

'' The Beggar's Opera '' opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields on January 29 and ran for 62 performances

BIRTHS

January 16 - Niccola Piccinni , composer of over 100 operas

September 21 - Louis Emmanuel Eadin , composer

December 9 - Pietro Guglielmi , composer

December 25 - Johann Hiller , composer

DEATHS

February 12 - Agostino Steffani , composer and diplomat

August 15 - Marin Marais , composer and bass-viol player

''unknown date'' - Gaetano Greco , composer