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EVENTS

Johann Christian Bach composing for the King's Theatre in London ; here he meets Karl Friedrich Abel for the first time.

Michael Haydn moves to Salzburg , to become Konzertmeister to the Archbishop.

Death of Le Riche de La Pouplinière, patron of Jean-Philippe Rameau , Johann Stamitz and François-Joseph Gossec .

Antonio Soler publishes his treatise on modulation: ''Llave de la modulación''.

POPULAR MUSIC

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Johann Albrechtsberger - ''Passione Domini''

Joseph Haydn - ''Symphony no 9''

Leopold Mozart - ''Sacrament Litany in D''

Georg Philipp Telemann - ''Christmas Oratorio''

OPERA

Thomas Arne - ''Artaxerxes''

Christoph Willibald Gluck - ''Orfeo ed Euridice''

Johann Gottlieb Naumann - ''Il tesoro insidiato''

BIRTHS

January 20 - Jerome-Joseph De Momigny , composer

January 21 - Giuseppe Antonio Silvani , composer

February 19 - Friedrich Franz Hurka , composer

March 24 - Marcos Antonio Da Fonseca , Portugal, opera composer

March 25 - Francesco Giuseppi Pollini , composer

April 4 - Stephen Storace , composer

April 13 - Karl Friedrich Horn , composer

June 24 - Johann Paul Wessely , composer

July 4 - Marco Santucci , composer

July 20 - Jakob Haibel , composer

August 10 - Santiago Ferrer , composer

October 15 - Samuel Adams Holyoke , composer

December 26 - Franz Wilhelm Tausch , composer

DEATHS

January 13 - Leonhard Trautsch , composer

February 11 - Johann Tobias Krebs , composer

February 12 - Laurent Belissen , composer

April 23 - Johann Samuel Endler , composer

May 16 - Ernst Chreistian Hesse , composer

June 19 - Johann Ernst Eberlin , composer

July 16 - Jacques Hotteterre , composer

July 20 - Christoph Nichelsmann , klavecinist and composer

September 17 - Francesco Geminiani , violinist and composer

October 6 - Onofrio Manfredini , composer