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EVENTS

Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach succeeds his godfather, Telemann, as director of church music in Hamburg .

''Dictionnaire de musique'' by Jean-Jacques Rousseau is published.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his family travel to Vienna, stopping at the Abbey of Melk .

POPULAR MUSIC

James Hook 's first collection of songs for the Vauxhall Gardens .

OPERA

Christoph Willibald Gluck - ''Alceste''

Johann Hiller - ''Lottchen am Hofe''

Mozart - ''Apollo et Hyacinthus''

CLASSICAL MUSIC

''Symphony no 35'' by Joseph Haydn

''Divertimento for 2 Basset-horns, 2 Horns and Fagot in C'' by Michael Haydn

''Four Symphonies'' by Thomas Arne

''Sinfonia in D major'' by Antonio Sacchini

BIRTHS

February 4 - Johann Franz Volkert , composer

March 13 - Heinrich Domnich , composer

March 19 - Leonhard Von Call , composer

April 27 - Andreas Romberg , violinist and composer

May 4 - Thygaraja or Tyagaraja, composer and singer

May 24 - Joseph Ignaz Schnabel , composer

May 25 - Ferdinand Franzl and Friedrich Johann Eck , composers

July 31 - Amelie Julia Candielle , composer

August 30 - Christian Frederich Gottlieb Schwencke , composer

September 8 - Karl August Von Lichtenstein , composer

September 17 - Henri-Montan Berton , composer

September 20 - Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia , composer

September 26 - Wenzel Muller , composer

October 21 - Francesco Ruggi , composer

December 29 - Aimé Ambroise Simon Leborne , composer

DEATHS

April 7 - Franz Sparry , composer

June 25 - Georg Philipp Telemann , composer

August 28 - Johann Schobert , composer

October 18 - Joseph Paul Ziegler , composer