Viola-da-Gambist and composer. Cowper, poet. | | | | Bacon, sculptor. | | | | Josiah Wedgewood, | | Hiller (Johann Adam), born 1728 in improver | | Lusatia, Germany, died 1804. Composed of pottery | | 18 Operettas, many psalms, manufacture | | sacred and secular songs, symphonies, (1730-1795). | | sonatas, and musical treatises. | | Alfieri publishes | | his first tragedy | | 'Cleopatra' | | (1773). | | HAYDN (JOSEPH), born 1732 at | | Rohrau, in Austria, died 1809. Benjamin Franklin, | | Composed 24 Operas (10 with German American | | words, and 14 with Italian words), 4 philosopher | | Oratorios, 19 Masses, several Te and statesman | | Deums, a Stabat Mater, Salve Regina, (1706-1790). | | many motetts and other sacred music, | | 118 symphonies, 83 quartetts, 44 Pope Clement | | sonatas, and many other instrumental XIV. suppresses | | and vocal compositions. the Order of the | | Jesuits, founded | | in the year | | 1540 (1773). | | J. Haydn wrote in 1783 the Oratorio | | The Seven Words, for Cadix; in 1800, The Jesuits were | | The Creation; in 1803, The Seasons; expelled from | | in 1791 and 1793; the twelve so-called England in | | English symphonies, in London. 1604; from | | France, in | | 1764; from | | Kittel (Johann Christian), born 1732 Spain, in 1767. | | at Erfurt in Germany, died 1809. The Order was | | Many organ compositions. restored by | | Pope Pius VII. | 1774 | GLUCK in Paris, from 1774 to 1779. in 1814. | | Representations of his Operas. Reform | | of the French dramatic music. Rivalry Death of Lord | | between Gluck and Piccini in Paris. Clive (1774). | | First performance of Orpheus and | | Euridice, Vienna 1762; of Alceste, The American | | Vienna, 1767; of Iphigenia in Aulis, Colonies deny | | Paris, 1774; of Armida, Paris, 1777; the right of the | | of Iphigenia in Tauris, Paris, 1779. British Parliament | | to tax | | them (1774). | | | |