Johann Adolf Hasse – Tito Vespasiano Leonardo Leo – Demofoonte (in collaboration with Giuseppe Sellitto, Francesco Mancini and Domenico Sarro) Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Il Flaminio L'Olimpiade (first performed, composed 1734) Nicola Antonio Porpora Ifigenia In Aulide Polifemo Jean-Philippe Rameau – Les Indes galantes (opéra-ballet) Francesco Maria Veracini – Adriano In Siria Antonio Vivaldi Adelaide, RV 695 (lost) Bajazet, RV 703 (Pasticcio with music by Riccardo Broschi, Geminiano Giacomelli and Johann Adolph Hasse) Griselda, RV 718 Publications George Frideric Handel – 6 Fugues, HWV 605–610 Reinhard Keiser – Dialogus von der Geburt Christi Johann Mattheson – Die wol-klingende Finger-Sprache (Hamburg: Composer) Georg Philipp Telemann – Fugierende und verändernde Choräle, TWV 31:1–48 Methods and Theory Writings Johann Mattheson – Kleine General-Baß-Schule Births January 21 – Johann Gottfried Eckard, pianist and composer (died 1809) February 25 – Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, composer (died 1792) February 28 – Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, musician, mathematician and chemist (died 1796) May 13 – Horace Coignet, composer (died 1821) June 1 – James Lyon I (died 1794) June 6 – Anton Schweitzer, opera composer (died 1787) July 10 – Giovanni Bertati (died 1815) September 5 – Johann Christian Bach, composer (died 1782) October 30 – Edward Miller (died 1807) November 17 – Antoine Alexandre Henri Poinsinet (died 1769) November 26 – Giambattista Varesco, priest, musician, poet and librettist (died 1805) date unknown Charlotte Brent, operatic soprano (died 1802) Franz Anton Spitzeder, operatic tenor and keyboard teacher (died 1796) Deaths January 12 – John Eccles, composer (born 1668) January 29 – George Granville (born 1666) February 27 – John Arbuthnot (born 1667) March 24 – Georg Friedrich Kaufmann, organist and composer (born 1679) June 22 – Pirro Albergati, aristocrat and amateur composer (born 1663) July 18 – Johann Krieger, organist and composer (born 1649) November 2 – Šimon Brixi, composer (born 1693) date unknown Quirino Colombani, musician, composer and music teacher (date of birth unknown) Jean-Nicolas de Francine, director of the Opéra national de Paris (born 1662) 18th century in music Music by year