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EVENTS

Joseph Haydn marries, but will live apart from his wife for most of their lives.

John Newton leaves his job for the church, and begins composing hymns.

''Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frideric Handel '', by John Mainwaring , is published anonymously.

John Alcock is forced to resign as organist and choirmaster of Lichfield Cathedral .

William Boyce 's ''Eight Symphonies'' are published by John Walsh (Handel's publisher), having been composed over the previous 21 years as either odes to vocal or stage works or as overtures.

Johann Christian Bach becomes organist of Milan Cathedral .

POPULAR MUSIC

OPERA

Thomas Arne - ''Thomas and Sally''

Johann Christian Bach - ''Artaserse''

Johann Adolph Hasse - ''Alcide al Bivio''

Jean-Philippe Rameau - ''Les Surprises de l'amour''

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Johann Albrechtsberger - ''String Quartet in D''

William Boyce - ''Eight Symphonies''

François Joseph Gossec - ''Grande Messe des Morts''

Michael Haydn - ''Concerto for Violin in B flat major''

BIRTHS

January 10 - Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg , composer

January 15 - Jean François Lesueur , composer

January 19 - Melchor Lopez Jimenez , composer

January 30 - Franz Xaver Partsch , composer

March 27 - Ishmail Spicer , composer

April 12 - Juan Manuel Olivares , composer

May 10 - Claude-Joseph Rouget De Lisle , composer of '' La Marseillaise ''

June 14 - Candido Jose Ruano , composer

September 21 - Gaetano Valeri , composer

September 14 - Luigi Cherubini , composer

October 1 - William Beckford , composer and author

November 9 - Henri-Philippe Gerard , composer

December 2 - Joseph Graetz , composer

DEATHS

January 18 - Claudio Casciolini , composer

February 14 - Francois Collin De Blamont , composer

February 22 - Anna Magdalena Bach , second wife and assistant of Johann Sebastian Bach

March 10 - Christoph Graupner , composer

March 14 - Anton Filtz , composer

April 12 - Baron Ernst Gottlieb , composer

''date unknown'' - Ernst Gottlieb Baron , lutenist and composer