of Teaching Thorough Bass Johann Mattheson – Kern Melodischer Wissenschafft Jean-Phillipe Rameau – Génération harmonique, ou Traité de musique théorique et pratique Johann Adolph Scheibe – Der critische Musicus Births January 3 – Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg, poet and librettist (died 1823) January 19 – Giuseppe Millico, castrato singer, composer and music teacher (died 1802) March 9 – Josef Mysliveček, composer (died 1781) April 10 – François Giroust (died 1799) September 14 – Michael Haydn, composer (died 1806) September 21 – Francis Hopkinson (died 1791) November 25 – Christian Friedrich Penzel (died 1801) date unknown William Paxton, cellist and composer (died 1781) Frederick Charles Reinhold, operatic bass (died 1815) Marguerite Morel, Ballerina, actress and singer. Deaths February 12 – Benjamin Schmolck, Lutheran hymn-writer (born 1672) September 22 Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, composer (born 1667) Francesco Mancini, composer and music teacher (born 1672) December 18 – Antonio Stradivari, violin-maker (born 1644) 18th century in music Music by year