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Events

• Johann Christoph Pepusch arrives in London.
• Following her husband's death, Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre begins hosting concerts in her home.
• The Leipzig Collegium Musicum is founded by Georg Philipp Telemann.
• Antonio Vivaldi becomes general superintendent of music at the Conservatory of

the Pieta, Venice. Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667- July 20, 1752) was a German composer. ... Georg Philipp Telemann (March 14, 1681–June 25, 1767) was a German Baroque music composer, born in Magdeburg. ... Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Vivaldi (March 4, 1678, Venice – July 28, 1741, Vienna), nicknamed Il Prete Rosso, meaning The Red Priest, was an Italian priest and baroque music composer. ... Venice is known for its waterways and gondolas Gondola. ...

• Johann Jacob Bach becomes an oboist in the army of King Charles XII of Sweden, inspiring Johann Sebastian to write a Capriccio on the Absence of His Most Beloved Brother.

Charles XII, Karl XII or Carolus Rex, (June 17, 1682 - November 30, Sweden (1697 - 1718). ...

Classical music

• Setting by Reinhard Keiser of Der blutige und sterbende Jesus by Christian Friedrich Hunold
• Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich (cantata) by Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach, 1748 portrait by Elias Gottlob Haussmann Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685[1] (O.S.) – July 28, 1750[2] (N.S.)) was a German composer and organist of the Baroque period, and is universally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. ...

Opera

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Births

• June 11 - Carlos Seixas, composer (d. 1742)
• date unknown - Carl Heinrich Graun, composer and singer

June 11 is the 162nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (163rd in leap years), with 203 days remaining. ... Jose Antonio Carlos de Seixas (Coimbra, 11 June 1704 - Lisbon, 25 August 1742), Portuguese musician and composer, the son of the cathedral organist, Francisco Vaz and Marcelina Nunes. ... Carl Heinrich Graun (ca. ...

Deaths

• February 23 - Georg Muffat, composer
• February 24 - Marc-Antoine Charpentier, composer
• February 25 - Isabella Leonarda, composer of church music
• May 3 - Heinrich Ignaz Biber, violinist and composer
• date unknown - Francesco Provenzale, composer
• date unknown - G.C. Strattner, friend and colleague of Bach at Lüneburg.