1752 In Music

EVENTS

George Frideric Handel is operated on for an eye condition, at Guy's Hospital in London.

Publication of ''Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversière zu spielen'', a treatise on the flute, by Johann Joachim Quantz

Artist Thomas Gainsborough joins the Ipswich Musical Society; he later paints the portrait of English composer Joseph Gibbs

Johann Wilhelm Hertel replaces his father, Johann Christian Hertel , as Kapellmeister at the court of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

CLASSICAL MUSIC

OPERA

''Le Devin du Village'' by Jean-Jacques Rousseau , part of his response in the Querelle Des Bouffons

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