Events

• April - George Frideric Handel suffers a probable stroke, resulting in the temporary paralysis of his right arm.
• William Boyce conducts the Three Choirs Festival

Classical music

Opera

• Domenico Alberti - Endimione
• Giovanni Bononcini - Zenobia
• George Frideric Handel - Berenice and Arminio
• John Frederick Lampe and Henry Carey - The Dragon of Wantley
• Leonardo Leo - Parnace
• Jean-Philippe Rameau - Castor et Pollux

Births

• January 19 - Giuseppe Millico, castrato singer, composer and music teacher (died 1802)
• March 9 - Josef Myslive ek, composer (died 1781)
• September 14 - Michael Haydn, composer (died 1806)
• 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 Mont clair, composer (born 1667)
  • Francesco Mancini, composer and music teacher (born 1672)
• December 18 - Antonio Stradivari, violin-maker (born 1644)

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