| | wrote several theoretical works on | | music in French. Lessing (1729-1781). | | | | Gretry (Andre-Ernest-Modeste), born The United | | 1741 at Liege, died 1813. Composed States of | | 59 Operas, several Masses, motetts, America declare | | symphonies, quartetts, their | | pianoforte-sonatas, etc. Also Essays independence | | on Music. (1776). | | | | Battishill (Jonathan), born 1738 in | | London, died 1801. Many sacred vocal Alliance between | | compositions, and some Operas. France and | | the United | | Arnold (Samuel), born 1740 in States (1778). | | London, died 1802. Composed 40 | | Operas and Operettas (with English Spain and | | words), 7 Oratorios, etc. Holland in | | favour of the | | Bach (Johann Christian), son of J. United States. | | S. Bach, born 1735 at Leipzig, died (1779). | | 1782 in London. Composed 15 Operas | | (with Italian words), 18 concertos for United States of | | the harpsichord, sonatas, trios, and North America | | other instrumental pieces. independent. | | | | Albrechtsberger (Johann Georg), born Washington their | | 1736 in the neighbourhood of Vienna, President | | died 1809. Composed 26 Masses, 43 (1783). | | graduales, 34 offertories, and other | | sacred compositions, many Washington | | organ-fugues, etc. Author of a work on (1732-1799). | | the Theory of Music. | | Frederick-William | | II., | | King of Prussia, | | nephew of | | Frederick the | | Great (1786). | | | | The Quakers at | | Haydn (Michael), brother of Joseph Philadelphia | | Haydn, born 1737 in Rohrau, died 1806. emancipate | | Many Masses, Offertories, Te Deums, their slaves | | etc. (1788). | | | | First English | | Dittersdorf (Carl Ditters von), born settlement in | | 1739 at Vienna, died 1799. Composed Australia, at | | 37 Operas, 41 symphonies, many