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EVENTS

James Hook becomes musical director of Marylebone Gardens in London

The family of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sets out on a European tour, visiting Paris and London

POPULAR MUSIC

''None listed''

OPERA

Pietro Guglielmi - ''Tito Manlio''

Joseph Haydn - ''Acide''

Vincenzo Manfredini - ''Carlo Magno''

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Joseph Haydn - Symphonies nos. 12 and 13

Michael Haydn - ''Symphony in G major "Divertimento"''; ''Symphony in B flat major, P 51 "La Confidenza"''

BIRTHS

February 20 - Adalbert Gyrowetz , composer

March 6 - Jean Xavier Lefevre , composer

April 2 - Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari , composer

April 7 - Domenico Dragonetti , composer

May 4 - Franz Stanislaus Spindler , composer

May 15 - Franz Danzi , composer

June 1 - Christian Gottlob Saupe , composer

June 14 - Johannes Simon Mayr , composer

June 24 - Etienne Méhul , composer

October 12 - John Ross , composer

November 28 - Matthaus Fischer , composer

December 23 - John Davy , composer

DEATHS

June 1 - Johann Caspar Vogler , composer

July 17 - Wenzel Raimund Pirck , composer

August 14 - Giovanni Battista Somis , composer

September 14 - Johann Philipp Sack , composer

''unknown date'' - Johann Gottlieb Janitsch , composer

December 2 - Carl August Thielo , composer

''probable'' - Giuseppe Paganelli , composer