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EVENTS

Francesco Geminiani visits Dublin , where he is robbed of a valuable manuscript.

Domenico Cimarosa enters the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto.

Joseph Haydn enters the service of the Esterházy family

POPULAR MUSIC

''None listed''

OPERA

''Catone in Utica'' - Florian Leopold Gassmann

''Le Tre Amante Ridicoli'' - Baldassare Galuppi

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Thomas Arne - ''Judith'' ( Oratorio )

Christoph Willibald Gluck - ''Don Juan'' ( Ballet )

François Joseph Gossec - ''Sei sinfonie a più stromenti'', op.5

Joseph Haydn - ''Symphony no 8 ("Le Soir")''

Michael Haydn - ''Symphony in C major''

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - ''Minuet for Harpsichord''

BIRTHS

January 20 - Giovanni Domenico Perotti , composer

February 20 - Johann Christian Ludwig Abeille , pianist and composer

February 22 - Erik Eriksson Tulindberg and Jacob Kimball , composers

April 20 - Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier , composer

June 13 - Antonin Vranicky or Wranitzky, composer

July 20 - Joseph Lefebvre , composer

September 4 - Friedrich Ludwig Emilius Kunzen , composer

September 12 - Georg Friedrich Theodor Wolf , composer

September 14 = Pavel Lambert Masek , composer

October 15 - Peter Gronland , composer

October 22 - Johann Christian Gottlob Eidenbenz , composer

November 1 - Antonin Josef Alois Volanek , composer

November 19 - Joseph Supries , composer

November 29 - Fridolin Weber , composer

DEATHS

January 3 - Willem De Fesch , violinist and composer

February 15 - Carlo Cecere , composer

March 7 - Antonio Palella , composer

March 27 - Johann Ludwig Steiner , composer

June 12 - Meinrad Spiess , composer

''unknown date'' - Johann Ladislaus Dussek , composer