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EVENTS

Opera house at Eszterháza burns down

OPERA

'' Zaide '' by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

'' Amadis De Gaule '' by Johann Christian Bach

''Iphigénie en Tauride'' by Christoph Willibald Gluck

CLASSICAL MUSIC

'' Sinfonia Concertante For Violin, Viola And Orchestra '' by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

BIRTHS

January 8 - John White , composer

January 15 - Jean Coralli , ballet producer and choreographer

January 22 - Stefano Pavesi , composer

February 5 - Frans Van Campenhout , singer and composer

February 22 - Joachim Nicolas Eggert , composer

March 1 - Jacob Gottfried Weber , composer

March 6 - Philippe Roth , composer

March 13 - Oliver Shaw , composer

March 21 - Alexis Garaude , composer

March 28 - Angelo Maria Benincori , composer

April 11 - Louise Reichardt

April 21 - William Knyvett , composer

May 28 - Thomas Moore , poet and lyricist

July 10 - Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini , composer

July 20 - Ignaz Schuster , composer

July 21 - Gottlob Wiedebein , composer

August 1 - Francis Scott Key , songwriter

August 17 - Franz De Paula Roser , composer

September 8 - Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt , composer

September 10 - Louis Alexandre Piccinni

October 15 - Johan O. Wallin , songwriting bishop

November 6 - Michal Bogdanowicz , composer

December 1 - Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov , composer

December 14 - Mariano Rodriguiz De Ledesma , composer

December 15 - Manuel Jeronimo Romero De Avila , composer

DEATHS

February 2 - Georg Philipp Kress , composer

February 7 - William Boyce

April 6 - Tommaso Traetta

December 28 - Gennaro Manna , composer