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EVENTS

Johann Friedrich Agricola succeeds Carl Heinrich Graun as director of Frederick The Great 's royal Opera .

POPULAR MUSIC

''None listed''

OPERA

Florian Leopold Gassmann - ''Gli uccellatori''

Christoph Willibald Gluck - ''L'Arbre enchantée''; ''Cythère Assiégée''

Tommaso Traetta - ''Ippolito ed Aricia''

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach - ''Pieces for Musical Clock''

François Joseph Gossec - ''Sei sinfonie a più stromenti'', op.4

Joseph Haydn - ''Symphony no 1 in D Major''

BIRTHS

January 25 - Robert Burns , Scottish poet and lyricist

January 31 - François Devienne , composer

''unknown date'' - William Matthews of Nottingham, composer

November 27 - Franz Krommer , composer

DEATHS

April 14 - George Frideric Handel

August 8 - Carl Heinrich Graun , composer

September 4 - Girolamo Chiti , composer

''unknown date'' - Giovanni Carestini , opera singer