Frideric Handel – Op. 3, 6 concerti grossi (London: John Walsh) Jean-Marie Leclair – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 5 Johann Melchior Molter – Sonata grossa in D major, MWV 4.5 Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville – 6 Trio Sonatas, Op. 2 Jean-Baptiste Morin – La chasse du cerf Giovanni Battista Somis – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 6 Giuseppe Tartini – Violin Sonatas, Op. 1 Georg Philipp Telemann – Verzeichniß der Telemannischen Musikalischen Werke Carlo Tessarini – Il maestro e discepolo, Op. 2 Births January 17 – François-Joseph Gossec (died 1829) February 20 – Franz Ignaz Beck (died 1809) March 18 – Joseph Schmitt (died 1791) April 19 – Karl von Ordoñez, composer (died 1786) May 28 – Christoph Sonnleithner (died 1786) June 19 – Alphonse du Congé Dubreuil (died 1801) June 28 – Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier, organist and composer (died 1794) July 15 – Johann Ernst Altenburg (died 1801) July 20 – Jean-Henri Naderman (died 1799) July 23 – Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini, composer (died 1786) August 16 – Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Théodore de Tschudi (died 1784) September 5 – Jean-Benjamin de Laborde (died 1794) September 25 – Louis-René-Édouard de Rohan (died 1803) December 18 – Jean-Baptiste Rey, conductor and composer (died 1810) December 27 – Stephen Paxton (died 1787) December 31 – Claude Joseph Dorat (died 1780) date unknown – Benjamin Cooke, organist, composer and teacher (died 1793) Deaths February 25 – Marianna Bulgarelli, operatic soprano (born c. 1684) April 1 – Louis Lully (born 1664) April 30 – Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki (born c. 1665) May 24 – Georg Ernst Stahl (born 1659) June 13 – Nicolaus Vetter, organist and composer (born 1666) October 6 – Gottfried Reiche, trumpet player and composer (born 1667) date unknown – Obadiah Shuttleworth, violinist, organist and composer 18th century in music Music by year