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Births

30 January: JOHANN JOACHIM QUANTZ = German flautist and composer = [died: 1773]
16 April: JOHANN GOTTLIEB GÖRNER = German organist and composer = [died: 1778]
26 April: ADAM FALCKENHAGEN = German lutenist and composer = [died: 1754]
10 May: JEAN-MARIE LECLAIR = French violinist and composer = [died: 1764]
11 June: FRANCESCO ANTONIO VALLOTTI = Italian organist, music theorist and composer = [died: 1780]
9 November: CLAUDIO CASCIOLINI = Italian composer = [died: 1760]
5 December: GIUSEPPE DE MAJO = Italian organist and composer = [died: 1771]

Timeline of Events

ANTONIO STRADIVARI makes the Castelbarco cello.
GIUSEPPE TORELLI arrives at the court of Anspach.
DANIEL PURCELL and JEREMIAH CLARKE collaborate on the music for ELKANAH SETTLE's play, World in the Moon.
The Opéra du Quai au Foin in Brussels closes for the last time.

Johan Georg Ahlens musikalisches Sommer-Gespräche by JOHANN GEORG AHLE, on cadences, rhetorical figures, and modes. Second part of Ahle's Musikalische Gespräche series of treatises in form of dialogues.