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EVENTS

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach leaves his post as organist at Halle .

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart becomes a pupil of Johann Christian Bach .

POPULAR MUSIC

''None listed''

OPERA

''La rencontre imprévue'' - Christoph Willibald Gluck

''Siroe re di Persia'' - Pietro Guglielmi

''Gli stravaganti'' - Niccolò Piccini

CLASSICAL MUSIC

''Symphony no 22'' ("Philosopher") by Joseph Haydn

''Trumpet Concerto'' - Michael Haydn

''Matins for the Virgin of Guadalupe'' by Ignacio De Jerusalem

BIRTHS

February 8 - Joseph Leopold Von Eybler , composer

May 15 - Johann Nepomuk Kalcher , composer

July 1 - Georg Christoph Grosheim , composer

September 11 - Valentino Fioravanti , composer

September 15 - Friedrich Heine and Paolo Francesco Parenti , composers

October 14 - Charles-Henri Plantade , composer

November 30 - Franz Xaver Gerl , composer

December 10 - Louis-Sebastien Lebrun , composer

''unknown date'' - Vincenzo Fabrizi , composer

DEATHS

March 30 - Pietro Locatelli , violinist and composer

April 17 - Johann Mattheson , German musicologist

June 11 - Christoph Stoltzenberg , composer

September 12 - Jean-Philippe Rameau , composer

October 22 - Jean-Marie Leclair , composer

November 30 - Dieudonne Raick , composer

''unknown date'' - Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel , organist and composer, son of Johann Pachelbel