Events in Music Jan 31 Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera "Bellerophon" premieres at the Palais-Royal in Paris Birthdays in Music Jan 5 Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, Italian composer, born in Rome, Italy (d. 1750) Jan 19 Girolamo Chiti, Italian composer and music theorist, born in Siena (d. 1759) Deaths in Music Jan 9 Werner Fabricius, German composer, dies at 45 1678 Music History by Year 1680