1741 in music
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- November 25 – Marguerite-Antoinette CouperinMarguerite-Antoinette CouperinMarguerite-Antoinette Couperin was a French harpsichordist, the first woman to hold the position of ordinaire de la musique de la chambre du roi pour le clavecin . -Life:...
, the first female court musician at the French court, sells her official post to Bernard de BuryBernard de BuryBernard de Bury or Buri was a French musician and court composer of the late Baroque era.-Biography:...
. - Johann Friedrich AgricolaJohann Friedrich AgricolaJohann Friedrich Agricola was a German composer, organist, singer, pedagogue, and writer on music. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Flavio Anicio Olibrio.-Biography:...
arrives in BerlinBerlinBerlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
to study musical composition under Johann Joachim QuantzJohann Joachim QuantzJohann Joachim Quantz was a German flutist, flute maker and composer.-Biography:Quantz was born in Oberscheden, near Göttingen, Germany, and died in Potsdam....
. - Antonio VivaldiAntonio VivaldiAntonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...
leaves Venice for Vienna, but dies shortly after his arrival. - 19-year-old Jiří Antonín Benda is given the post of second violinist at the Berlin court of King Frederick II of PrussiaFrederick II of PrussiaFrederick II was a King in Prussia and a King of Prussia from the Hohenzollern dynasty. In his role as a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire, he was also Elector of Brandenburg. He was in personal union the sovereign prince of the Principality of Neuchâtel...
. - William HogarthWilliam HogarthWilliam Hogarth was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects"...
produces an engraving entitled The Enraged MusicianThe Enraged MusicianThe Enraged Musician is a 1741 etching and engraving by English artist William Hogarth which depicts a comic scene of a violinist driven to distraction by the cacophony outside his window...
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Classical music
- Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
: Goldberg VariationsGoldberg VariationsThe Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, is a work for harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach, consisting of an aria and a set of 30 variations. First published in 1741, the work is considered to be one of the most important examples of variation form...
published. - George Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...
: MessiahMessiah (Handel)Messiah is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel, with a scriptural text compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. It was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742, and received its London premiere nearly a year later...
composed. - Jean-Philippe RameauJean-Philippe RameauJean-Philippe Rameau was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque era. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading French composer for the harpsichord of his time, alongside François...
: Pieces de Clavecin en ConcertsPièces de Clavecin en ConcertsThe Pièces de clavecin en concert, published in 1741, constitute the only chamber music by Jean-Philippe Rameau and were composed in full maturity; they came after his music for solo harpsichord, and just before Les Indes galantes....
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Opera
- Tomaso AlbinoniTomaso AlbinoniTomaso Giovanni Albinoni was an Italian Baroque composer. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music, such as the concertos, some of which are regularly recorded.-Biography:Born in Venice, Republic of Venice, to Antonio Albinoni, a...
– ArtameneArtameneFor the novel, see Artamène.Artamene was an opera in three acts by Tomaso Albinoni set to a libretto by Bartolomeo Vitturi. Composed in 1740, it premiered in Venice at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in the 1741 carnival season. It was Albinoni's last opera. The music is lost.... - Christoph Willibald GluckChristoph Willibald GluckChristoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck was an opera composer of the early classical period. After many years at the Habsburg court at Vienna, Gluck brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years...
– Artaserse - Giovanni Battista LampugnaniGiovanni Battista LampugnaniGiovanni Battista Lampugnani was an Italian composer from Milan. He studied in Naples where he made his debut as a composer of opera in 1732. In 1743 he went to London to take over the Opera from Baldassare Galuppi at the King's Theatre, but he soon returned to Milan...
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Births
- February 8 – André Grétry, composer (died 1813)
- February 9 – Henri-Joseph RigelHenri-Joseph RigelHenri-Joseph Rigel was a German-born composer of the Classical era who spent most of his working life in France. He was born in Wertheim am Main where his father was musical intendant to the local prince. After an education in Germany, where his teachers included Jommelli, Rigel moved to Paris in...
, composer (died 1799) - May 23 – Andrea LuchesiAndrea LuchesiAndrea Luca Luchesi was an Italian composer.- Biography :Andrea Luchesi was born at Motta di Livenza, near Treviso the eleventh child of Pietro Luchese and Caterina Gottardi. The rather wealthy family descended from groups of noble families who had moved from Lucca to Venice in the 14th century...
, composer (died 1801) - July 17 – Suzette DefoyeSuzette DefoyeSuzette Defoye née Marie-Suzanne-Joséphe Artus Truyart , was a French ballet dancer, stage actor, opera singer and theatre director, active in France, Belgium and Russia.- Biography :...
, opera singer and ballerina - July 27 – François-Hippolyte BarthélémonFrançois-Hippolyte BarthélémonFrançois Hippolyte Barthélemon was a French violinist, pedagogue, and composer active in England.-Biography:François Barthélemon was born in Bordeaux , France. He received his education in Paris, where he studied musical composition and violin, and performed in the orchestra of the Comédie-Italienne...
, violinist and composer (died 1808) - August 31 – Jean Paul Egide MartiniJean Paul Egide MartiniJean Paul Egide Martini, was a composer of classical music. Sometimes known as Martini Il Tedesco, he is best known today for the vocal romance "Plaisir d'Amour," on which the 1961 Elvis Presley standard "Can't Help Falling in Love" is based...
, composer (died 1816) - September 25 – Wenzel PichlWenzel PichlWenzel Pichl was a classical Czech composer of the 18th Century. He was also a violinist, music director and writer....
, singer, violinist and composer (died 1805) - date unknown
- Franz Xaver HammerFranz Xaver HammerFranz Xaver Hammer was a German gambist, cellist and composer.Hammer was born in Oettingen in Bayern. From 1771 to 1778, he worked under Joseph Haydn as cellist of the Esterhazy's court ensemble in Eisenstadt and at the Eszterháza palace. It is thought that Haydn composed three cello concertos for...
, gambist, cellist and composer (died 1817) - Anna Brita WendeliusAnna Brita WendeliusAnna Brita Wendelius, , was a Swedish artist and singer. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.Anna Brita Wendelius, who was married to a wealthy merchant, was known as a non professional musician and singer...
, singer and member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music (died 1804).
- Franz Xaver Hammer
Deaths
- January 5 – Ann Turner RobinsonAnn Turner RobinsonAnn Turner Robinson was an English soprano of the 18th century. She was the youngest daughter of William Turner, a composer and countertenor who was a contemporary of Henry Purcell, and is best remembered for her association with the composer George Frideric Handel, in whose operas she sang.Her...
, English soprano - February 13 – Johann FuxJohann FuxJohann Joseph Fux was an Austrian composer, music theorist and pedagogue of the late Baroque era. He is most famous as the author of Gradus ad Parnassum, a treatise on counterpoint, which has become the single most influential book on the Palestrina style of Renaissance polyphony...
, composer and theorist (born 1660) - June 21 – Joseph-Hector FioccoJoseph-Hector FioccoJoseph-Hector Fiocco , born in Brussels, was a Flemish composer and violinist of the high and late Baroque period....
, Flemish violinist and composer (born 1703) - July 28 – Antonio VivaldiAntonio VivaldiAntonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...
, composer (born 1678) - August – David OwenDavid Owen (harpist)David Owen was a Welsh harpist, best remembered as the composer of the popular song, "Dafydd y Garreg Wen"...
, Welsh harpist (born 1712) - August 24 – Gabriel-Vincent ThévenardGabriel-Vincent ThévenardGabriel-Vincent Thévenard was a French operatic baritone .Thévenard was born at Orléans or possibly Paris. Arriving in Paris in 1690, he studied under the composer André Cardinal Destouches and went on to become a member of the Académie Royale de Musique...
, French operatic baritone (born 1669) - September 7 – Henri DesmaretsHenri DesmaretsHenri Desmarets was a French composer of the Baroque period primarily known for his stage works, although he also composed sacred music as well as secular cantatas, songs and instrumental works....
, French composer of sacred music (born 1661) - probable – Francesco ScarlattiFrancesco ScarlattiFrancesco Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer and musician and brother of the better known Alessandro Scarlatti....
, composer (born 1666)