Pope publishes | 1730 | Marcello (Benedetto), born 1686 at his 'Essay on | | Venice, died 1739. Composed fifty Man' (1729). | | Psalms, several Oratorios, Masses, | | etc. | | Thomson publishes | | Porpora (Nicolo), born 1687 at his 'Seasons' | | Naples, died 1767. Great singing (1730). | | teacher. Composed fifty Operas, many | | Masses, etc. Arbuthnot and Sir | | Hans Sloane, | | Tartini (Giuseppe) born 1692 at English physicians | | Pirano, died 1770. Violinist and (1730). | | composer. Author of a Treatise on | | Harmony. | | Le Sage, author of | | Leo (Leonardo), born 1694 at Naples, 'Gil Blas' (1730). | | died 1756. Composed forty-eight | | Operas, several Oratorios, Masses, and Jonathan Swift, | | other sacred music. He wrote for his Dean of St. | | Operas larger overtures than previous Patrick's, poet | | composers had done. and miscellaneous | | writer (1730). | | Carey (Henry), born about 1690 in | | England, died 1743. Many songs. He Harrison, an | | is supposed to have composed in the Englishman, | | year 1740 the English national air of constructs | | 'God save the King.' a chronometer of | | great precision | | HANDEL (GEORG FRIEDRICH), properly (1735). His | | Haendel, born 1685 at Halle, died 1759 fourth chronometer | | in London. Composed fifty-one Operas is used at sea | | (forty-three having Italian words in 1764, and he | | and eight having German words), twenty receives a reward | | English Oratorios, many cantatas, of L20,000. | | motetts, anthems, a Mass, four Te | | Deums, concertos, instrumental | | compositions for the organ, Frederick III., | | harpsichord, etc. Elector of | | Brandenburg, and | | The concertos of that period Duke of Prussia, | | consisted of orchestral pieces with or in an assembly of | | without an organ concertante; or of the states, puts | | violin-quintetts with double-bass; a crown upon his | | or also of pieces for the own head, and | | harpsichord accompanied upon the head | | by a quartett of stringed