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EVENTS

Composer Supply Belcher settles in Maine .

CLASSICAL MUSIC

''Davidde penitente'' ( Oratorio ) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mozart's String Quartet , "Dissonantenkwartet"

Mozart's ''Concerto no 20 in D minor for Piano and Orchestra''

William Boyce , ''Ten Voluntaries''

Joseph Haydn , ''String Quartet in D minor''

Ignace Pleyel , ''String Quartet''

OPERA

Gaetano Andreozzi - ''Giasone e Medea''

Johann Friedrich Reichardt - ''Artemisia''

Antonio Salieri - ''La Grotta di Trofonio''

BIRTHS

March 6 - Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski , composer

March 19 - Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann , composer

April 4 - Bettina Brentano , composer

April 19 - Alexandre Pierre Francois Boely , composer

September 25 - George Frederic Pinto , composer

November 2 - Frederic Kalkbrenner and Johann Leopold Fuchs , composers

''unknown date'' - Johann Christoph , operatic tenor

DEATHS

January 3 - Baldassare Galuppi

February 19 - Johann Christoph Richter , composer

May 9 - Franz Xaver Schnitzer , composer

May 10 - Etienne Joseph Floquet , composer

May 15 - Karel Blazej Kopriva , composer

June 5 - Gottfried August Homilius , composer

June 6 - Johann Michael Demmler , composer

June 25 - Pierre Talon , composer

October 24 - Jean-Jacques Robson , composer

November 19 - Bernard De Bury , composer

December 8 - Antonio Maria Mazzoni , composer

December 29 - Johann Heinrich Rolle