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EVENTS

Elias Gottlieb Haussmann completes his famous portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach

CLASSICAL MUSIC

''Occasional Oratorio'' by George Frideric Handel , with words by Newburgh Hamilton

OPERA

Thomas Arne - ''Neptune and Amphitrite''

Jean-Marie Leclair - ''Scylla et Glaucus''

BIRTHS

June 3 (probable) - James Hook , composer

November 15 - Joseph Quesnel , composer

DEATHS

May 15 - Giovanni Antonio Ricieri , composer

''unknown date'' - Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer , composer