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Content
- 1 Events
- 2 Classical music
- 3 Opera
- 4 born
- 5 died
- 6 See also
- 7 notes
- 8 References
Events
- Christoph Willibald Gluck knighted by Pope Benedict XIV .
- Johann Christian Bach moves to Italy .
Classical music
- Joseph Haydn - First Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Concerto No. 1 in C, Hob. XVIII / 1
Opera
- Pascal Cafaro - La disfatta di Dario
- Baldassare Galuppi - Idomeneo
- Pierre van Mulder - Le Déguisement pastorale
- Jean-Philippe Rameau - Zoroastre
- Antonio Saccini - Fra Donato
Born
- January 27 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Austrian composer, bandmaster, virtuoso violinist, harpsichordist, organist (d. In 1791 ).
- May 7 - , English composer, son of composer (died February 14, 1778 ).
- May 13 - Wojciech Lively , Polish pianist, composer and music teacher of Czech origin, the first teacher Frederic Chopin (d. In 1842 ).
- June 20 - Joseph Martin Kraus , German composer (d. In 1792 ).
- September 9 - Christopher Christian Karsten , Swedish opera singer-tenor (d. 1827 ).
- date unknown - , composer from the Austrian Netherlands (d. in 1837 ).
Died
- January 25 - , German master of organs and harpsichords (born in 1679 ).
- April 16 - Giacomo Antonio Perti , Italian Baroque composer (born in 1661 ).
- April 15 - Johann Gottlieb Goldberg , German harpsichordist and composer (born in 1727 ).
- August 18 - , German Lutheran theologian, poet and author of hymns (born in 1671 ).
- September 19 - , Bohemian violinist and composer of the Baroque period (born in 1710 ).
- Date unknown - Riccardo Throws , Italian Baroque composer (born in 1668 ).
See also
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