Birthdays:

 

1/17/1706 - Benjamin Franklin, polymath: Sounds of a Glass Armonica

 

1/17/1712 - John Stanley, composer: Trumpet Voluntary

 

1/17/1728 - Johann Gottfried Muthel, composer:  Fantasie g-Moll

 

1/17/1734 - François-Joseph Gossec, composer:  Hymne sur la translation du corps de Voltaire au Panthéon (Invocation)