in C major, IAV 5 Antonio Vivaldi Violin Sonata in C minor, RV 5 Concerto for Strings in C major, RV 114 Concerto for Strings in D major, RV 121 Concerto for Strings in D minor, RV 127 Concerto for 2 Oboes in C major, RV 534 Magnificat, RV 610 John Weaver (choreographer; composers unknown) – The Loves of Mars and Venus (ballet) Opera Antonio Maria Bononcini – La conquista del vello d'oro Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello – Tisbe Antonio Caldara – La verità nell'inganno Leo Leonardo – Diana amante Alessandro Scarlatti – Telemaco Antonio Vivaldi L'Incoronazione di Dario Tieteberga, RV 737 Births January 4 – Antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer (died 1785) April 9 – Georg Matthias Monn, composer (died 1750) June 18 – Johann Stamitz, violinist and composer (died 1757) June 27 – Giacomo Durazzo, operatic impresario (died 1794) date unknown Leopold August Abel, violinist and composer (died 1794) Elisabeth Lillström, Swedish operatic soprano (d. 1791) William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymn writer (died 1791) probable – Marimutthu Pillai, composer of Carnatic music (died c.1787) Deaths February 11 – Johann Jakob Walther, violinist and composer (born 1650) April 3 – Christian Friedrich Witt, composer, music editor and teacher (born c.1660) October 13 – Wolfgang Printz, composer and cantor (born 1641) November 26 – Daniel Purcell, composer (born 1664) date unknown Pierre Bouteiller, composer (born 1655) Goffredo Cappa, luthier (born 1644) Friedrich Erhard Niedt, jurist, music theorist, and composer (born 1674) probable – Francisco Guerau, composer (born 1649) References 18th century in music Music by year