Events April – George Frideric Handel suffers a probable stroke, resulting in the temporary paralysis of his right arm. November 4 – Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, inaugurated with a performance of Domenico Sarro's Achille in Sciro. William Boyce conducts the Three Choirs Festival Classical music Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Harpsichord Concerto in G major, H. 405 Flute Sonata in E minor, H. 551 Johann Sebastian Bach – Mass in G major, BWV 236 Christoph Graupner – Concerto for Chalumeau, Bassoon and Cello in C major, GWV 306 George Frideric Handel – Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline, HWV 264 Leonardo Leo Cello Concerto in D major, L. 10 Cello Concerto in A major, L. 20 Cello Concerto in F minor, L. 40 Nicola Porpora – Il Gedeone (sacred oratorio) Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel – Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe, H. 342 Jan Dismas Zelenka Requiem, ZWV 45 (attribution is contested) 6 Ave Regina Coelorum, ZWV 128 Il diamante, ZWV 177 Opera Domenico Alberti – Endimione Giovanni Bononcini – Zenobia Riccardo Broschi – Merope George Frideric Handel Arminio (first performed, composed in 1736)) Giustino, HWV 37 (first performed, composed in 1736) Berenice, HWV 38 (completed, first performed) Faramondo, HWV 39 (composed, first performed 1738) Johann Adolph Hasse – Asteria John Frederick Lampe and Henry Carey – The Dragon of Wantley Leonardo Leo L'Olimpiade Siface Jean-Philippe Rameau – Castor et Pollux Nicola Antonio Porpora – Lucio Papirio Domenico Sarro – Achille in Sciro Antonio Vivaldi Catone In Utica Oracolo in Messenia, RV 726 Publications Joseph Bodin de Boismortier – 9 Sonatas and Chaconne, Op. 66 Nicolas Chédeville – Il Pastor Fido Sonatas (originally attributed to Vivaldi as his Op. 13) Michel Corrette – Premier Livre d’Orgue, Op. 16 Charles Dollé – Pièces de viole, Op. 2 Giovanni Battista Ferrandini – 6 Sonatas, Op. 2 Charles-Joseph van Helmont – Pièces de Clavecin, Op. 1 Jean-Marie Leclair 6 Violin Concertos, Op. 7 Deuxième recréation de musique d’une execution facile, Op. 8 (Paris) Pietro Locatelli – 12 Sonate da camera, Op. 6 Il Maestro di Musica – Pasticcio with music by Pietro Auletta, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Alessandro Parisotti Ohrenvergnügendes und gemütergötzendes Tafelkonfekt, Augsburg. (includes works by Valentin Rathgeber) Methods and theory writings Carl Johann Friedrich Haltmeier – Anleitung zum Transponieren Jacques Hotteterre – Méthode pour la musette, Op. 10 David Kellner – Treulicher Unterricht im General-Baß John Frederick Lampe – A Plain and Compendious Method