S. Giovanni Nepomuceno Opera Tomaso Albinoni – Ardelinda Giuseppe Bonno – Nigella e Nise Antonio Caldara – Adriano in Siria Geminiano Giacomelli – Alessandro Severo George Frideric Handel Ezio Sosarme Johann Adolf Hasse Il Demetrio Euristero Issipile John Frederick Lampe – Britannia Leo Leonardo – Demetrio Michel Montéclair – Jephté Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Lo frate 'nnamorato La Salustia Nicola Antonio Porpora – Germanico in Germania Georg Reutter – Alessandro il Grande Giovanni Battista Sammartini – Memet Giuseppe Sellitto – Nitocri Antonio Vivaldi – La fida ninfa Publications Musicalisches Lexicon, compiled by Johann Gottfried Walther Dissertation sur les différentes méthodes d'accompagnement by Jean-Phillipe Rameau Essai sur le bon goût en musique – Nicolas Racot de Grandval Births January 2 – František Brixi, composer (died 1771) January 24 – Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais February 18 – Johann Christian Kittel, composer (died 1809) February 19 – Richard Cumberland, librettist (died 1811) February 21 – William Falconer, poet (died 1769) March 31 – Joseph Haydn, composer (died 1809) May 17 – Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer (died 1817) June 7 Nicolas-Médard Audinot, librettist and actor (died 1801) Giuseppe Demachi, composer (died 1791) June 21 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer, son of Johann Sebastian Bach (died 1795) September 1 – Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie, composer (died 1781) October 6 – John Broadwood, founder of firm of piano makers (died 1812) Date unknown – Heinrich Ernst Grosmann, composer (died 1811) Deaths January 1 – Nicolo Grimaldi, castrato singer (born 1673) February 17 – Louis Marchand, composer (born 1669) March – Joseph François Salomon, composer (born 1649) July 20 – Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer November 15 – Girolamo Frigimelica Roberti, librettist (born 1653) December 4 – John Gay, writer of musical theatre (born 1685) December 14 – Johann Philipp Förtsch, composer (born 1652) date unknown – Pier Francesco Tosi, castrato singer (born c.1653) References 18th century in music Music by year