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EVENTS

Luigi Boccherini goes to Madrid as the court chamber music composer to the Infante Don Luis.

Wenzel Pichl becomes musical director for Count Ludwig Hartig in Prague

Mozart hears Allegri 's ''Miserere'' for the first time, returns home and copies it down note for note.

Charles Burney receives an honorary doctorate in music from the University Of Oxford .

Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini arrives in Venice .

OPERA

Jean-François Cailhava - '' Les Etrennes De L'amour ''

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Johann Albrechtsberger - ''Concerto for Trombone in B flat major''

Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach - ''Die Israeliten in der Wüste'' (oratorio)

François Joseph Gossec - ''Sei quartetti per flauto e violino o sia per due violini, alto e basso'', op. 14

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - ''Te Deum in C''

Johann Baptist Vanhal - ''Quartet for Strings in B flat major'', Op. 2 no 3

BIRTHS

January 17 - Ole Andreas Lindeman , composer

March 7 - Josef Alois Ladurner , composer

March 25 - Salvatore Vigano , composer

April 11 - Johann Georg Lickl , composer

April 12 - Giovanni Agostino Perotti , composer

May 4 - Charles Hague , composer

June 14 - Dominique Della-Maria , composer

June 1 - Joseph Elsner , Chopin's future teacher

July 4 - Louis-Luc Loiseau De Persuis , composer

July 23 - Alexey Nikolayevich Titov , composer

August 14 - Friedrich Ludwig Dulon , flautist

August 16 - Jean Aime Vernier , composer

August 18 - Alexandre Stievenard , composer

August 30 - Bonifacio Asioli , composer

DEATHS

March 27 - Josef Antonin Gurecky , composer

October 9 - Marianus Konigsperger , composer

''unknown date'' - James Oswald , composer