(1700-1748); | | Scarlatti (Domenico), son of Fielding | | Alessandro Scarlatti, born in 1683 at (1707-1754); | | Naples, died about 1760. Johnson (1713-1784); | | Clavicembalist. Many compositions for Goldsmith | | his instrument. (1728-1774); | | Sterne | | Rameau (Jean Philippe), born 1683 at (1713-1768); | | Dijon, died 1764. Composed 36 Operas, Hogarth, painter | | many motetts and other sacred vocal (1698-1764). | | compositions, as well as pieces for | | the organ and for the clavecin Death of the | | (harpsichord). Several theoretical Duke of Marlborough, | | works. A new System of Harmony. born | | Progress in operatic music. 1650 (1722). | | | | Mattheson (Johann), born 1681 at Death of Peter | | Hamburg, died 1764. Seven Operas, 24 the Great | | Oratorios, several other sacred (1725). | | compositions, and a great many works | | on the theory and history of music. George II., King | | of Great Britain, | | Telemann (Georg Philipp), born 1681 succeeds | | at Magdeburg, in Germany, died 1767. his father, | | Composed 44 Operas, many Oratorios George I., who | | and other sacred compositions, secular died, aged 68 | | instrumental pieces, etc. (1727). | | | | Heinichen (Johann David), born Fahrenheit, improver | | 1683 in Saxony, died 1729. Operas, of the | | sacred and secular compositions. thermometer | | Treatise on the Theory of Music. (1724). | | | | Reaumur, improver | | of the | | thermometer | | (1731). | | | | The Jesuits are | | Walther (Johann Gottfried), born expelled from | | 1684 at Erfurt, died 1748. Organ China (1724). | | compositions, chorales, and a Musical | | Dictionary. Isaac Newton | | (1642-1727). | | | | Swift publishes | | About this time, the first his 'Gulliver's | | Pianofortes were constructed by Travels' (1726). | | Christofori, in Italy, and by | | Schroeter, in Germany. | |