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Rameau and his work
Letter from Rameau to Christin (secretary of the Lyon Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts), in which he evokes his stay in Lyon thirty years previously.
Pièces de clavecin en concert published in Paris.
Rameau and his period
Death of Vivaldi in Vienna.
Première in London of Handel's last opera, Deidamia.
Première in Milan of Gluck's first opera, Artaserse.
Handel composes Messiah in London.
Death of Desmarest in Lunéville.
Birth of Grétry in Liège.
Retirement of the singers Marie Pélissier, Marie Antier and Denis-François Tribou.
Début at the Académie royale de musique of the singer Marie-Jeanne Fesch dite Chevalier.
Première in Paris of Favart's La Chercheuse d'esprit, music by Trial.