patrocinata da S. NiccoI (oratorio) Antonio Vivaldi – Violin Concerto in D major, RV 212 Johann Gottfried Walther – Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht Jan Dismas Zelenka – Attendite et videte, ZWV 59 Opera André Campra – Idomenée André Cardinal Destouches – Callirhoé George Frideric Handel Il Pastor Fido Teseo, HWV 9 (composed) John Hughes (1677–1720) and Johann Ernst Galliard (d. 1747) – Calypso and Telemachus (opera) Antonio Lotti – Porsenna Births January David Owen, harpist (died 1741) Cecilia Young, soprano, wife of Thomas Arne (died 1789) January 17 – John Stanley, composer and organist (died 1786) January 24 – Frederick II of Prussia, enthusiastic amateur musician and composer (died 1786) January 26 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer and head of a musical dynasty (died 1781) June 28 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, polymath (died 1778) July – John Hebden, musician and composer (died 1765) date unknown Marimutthu Pillai, Carnatic music composer (died 1787) John Christopher Smith, composer (died 1795) Sophia Schröder, vocalist at the Kungliga Hovkapellet (died 1750) probable – Kane O'Hara, playwright and musician (died 1782) Deaths April – Lambert Chaumont, organist and composer (born c.1630) April 29 – Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer August 7 – Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau, organist at Halle (born 1663) August 26 – Sebastian Anton Scherer, composer (born 1631) September 30 – Johann Michael Zächer, composer (born 1649) November 6 – Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer (born 1654) date unknown Buhurizade Mustafa Itri, composer and performer of Turkish classical music (born c.1640) Juan de Araujo, Spanish composer active in South and Central America (born 1646) Carlo Alessandro Guidi, poet and songwriter (born 1650) probable – Carlo Ambrogio Lonati, violinist, composer and singer References 18th century in music Music by year