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EVENTS

Mozart's mother dies

CLASSICAL MUSIC

François Joseph Gossec - ''Symphonie concertante en fa majeur n° 2, à plusieurs instruments''

Joseph Haydn - '' Little Organ Mass ''

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - ''12 Variations for Piano " La Belle Françoise "''

OPERA

Johann Christian Bach - ''La Clemenza di Scipione''

Charles Dibdin - '' The Shepherdess Of The Alps ''

Niccola Piccinni - ''Roland''

Antonio Salieri - ''La scuola de´ gelosi''; ''L´Europa riconosciuta'' (the latter was the first production of the Scala at Milan)

PUBLISHED POPULAR MUSIC

''The Singing Master's Assistant'' - William Billings , including " Africa "

BIRTHS

January 5 - Fortunato Santini , composer

January 13 - Anton Fischer , composer

February 12 - Franz Joseph Volkert , composer

February 13 (or 14) - Fernando Sor , guitarist and composer

February 15 - Johann Gottlieb Gorner , composer

March 8 - Friedrich August Kanne , composer

April 6 - Joseph Funk , composer

May 8 - Johann Gansbacher , composer

May 28 - Friedrich Westenholz , composer

July 10 - Sigismund Ritter Von Neukomm , composer and royal kapellmeister

July 25 - Heinrich Gebhard , composer

July 29 - Carl Borromaus Neuner

September 3 - Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer , composer

November 14 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel

DEATHS

March 5 - Thomas Arne , best known for " Rule Britannia "

April 7 - Johann Balthasar Kehl , composer

June 7 - Johann Georg Zechner , composer

June 26 - Angelo Antonio Caroli , composer

July 28 - Arvid Niclas Hopken , composer

August 5 - Thomas Linley , composer, aged 22

August 14 - Augustus Montague Toplady , hymn-writer

November 26 - Jean-Noel Hamal , composer