to rank among | | Operas, several Masses, motetts, and the first powers | | other sacred music. in Europe. | | | | Sammartini (Giovanni Battista), born Battle of Dettingen | | about 1700 at Milan, died 1775. Many gained | | Masses and other Church music, many by George II. | | symphonies, quartetts, trios, and over the | | other instrumental compositions of French (1743). | | every kind. Sammartini wrote about | | 2,800 works, and his style is The electric | | considered as being the precursor of shock is discovered | | that of Joseph Haydn. at Leyden | | (1745). | | From about the middle of the | | eighteenth century, the sonata-form German poets: | | in instrumental compositions (sonatas, Salis, Matthison, | | symphonies, quartetts, etc.) becomes Pfeffel, | | much developed, especially through Kind, Langbein, | | Joseph Haydn. Seume, | | Schubert, | | Tiedge, etc. | | | | Lima and Callao | | are destroyed | | by an earthquake | | which | | buries 18,000 | | persons in the | | ruins (1746). | | | | Linnaeus, naturalist | 1750 | The flourishing period of the (1750). | | Italian operatic music dates from | | about the year 1700 to 1780. The most The Academy of | | celebrated writers of libretti were Sciences at | | Apostolo Zeno and Metastasio. The most Stockholm, | | celebrated female singers: Faustina, and the Royal | | Cuzzoni, Mattei, Scotti, Grassi, Society at Goettingen, | | Gabrieli, Agujari, Danci, Allegrante, are founded (1750). | | Storace, etc. The most celebrated Samuel Johnson | | male singers: Lovattini, Guarducci, commences the | | Farinelli, Nicolini, Guadagni, publication of | | Millico, Pacchiarotti, Morelli, his 'Rambler' | | Marchesi, Salimbeni, Crescentini, etc. (1750). | | | | Lady W. Montague, | | Martini (Giovanni Battista), Padre, and Lord | | born 1706 at Bologna, died 1784. Chesterfield, | | Many sacred compositions, History of