1742 in music
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- March 23 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...
revives his St Matthew Passion BWV 244 (BC D 3b) with some further revisions of instrumentation and voicing at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. Work now scored with a ripieno SopranoSopranoA soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...
choir and Viola da gamba and HarpsichordHarpsichordA harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.In the narrow sense, "harpsichord" designates only the large wing-shaped instruments in which the strings are perpendicular to the keyboard...
in the 2nd Orchestra (Organ for 2nd Orchestra under repair). - December 7 – The Berlin Court OperaBerlin State OperaThe Staatsoper Unter den Linden is a German opera company. Its permanent home is the opera house on the Unter den Linden boulevard in the Mitte district of Berlin, which also hosts the Staatskapelle Berlin orchestra.-Early years:...
is inaugurated with a performance of Carl Heinrich GraunCarl Heinrich GraunCarl Heinrich Graun was a German composer and tenor singer. Along with Johann Adolf Hasse, he is considered to be the most important German composer of Italian opera of his time.-Biography:...
's Cleopatra e Cesare. - Joseph Benda joins the Prussian royal orchestra.
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...
- Peasant Cantata
- Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, book 2
- Autograph version of Die Kunst der Fuge
- 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...
– The 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...
, an oratorio, first performed in Dublin - Franz Xaver RichterFranz Xaver RichterFranz Xaver Richter, known as François Xavier Richter in France was an Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor and music theoretician who spent most of his life first in Austria and later in Mannheim and in Strasbourg, where he was music director of the cathedral...
– Kemptener Te Deum
Opera
- Giuseppe CarcaniGiuseppe CarcaniGiuseppe Carcani was an Italian composer of 18th century music. He was born in Crema, and died in Piacenza. He composed works for instruments, organ, and voice. During his career, Carcani held positions in at least one cathedral of Italy. Few of his works have survived.- Works :* Gloria *...
– Demetrio - Carl Heinrich GraunCarl Heinrich GraunCarl Heinrich Graun was a German composer and tenor singer. Along with Johann Adolf Hasse, he is considered to be the most important German composer of Italian opera of his time.-Biography:...
– Cesare e CleopatraCesare e CleopatraCesare e Cleopatra is a dramma per musica in three acts by composer Carl Heinrich Graun. The opera uses an Italian language libretto by Giovan Gualberto Bottarelli.-Royal Opera House premiere:... - Niccolò JommelliNiccolò JommelliNiccolò Jommelli was an Italian composer. He was born in Aversa and died in Naples. Along with other composers mainly in the Holy Roman Empire and France, he made important changes to opera and reduced the importance of star singers.-Early life:Jommelli was born to Francesco Antonio Jommelli and...
– Don Chichibio - Gennaro MannaGennaro MannaGennaro Manna was an Italian composer based in Naples. His compositional output includes 13 operas and more than 150 sacred works, including several oratorios.-References:...
– Tito Manlio
Births
- August 5 – Jean-Baptiste KrumpholzJean-Baptiste KrumpholzJean-Baptiste Krumpholz was a Czech composer and harpist.- Biography :...
, composer (died 17901790 in music-Events:* Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven meet for the first time.* Georg Joseph Vogler brings his invention, the orchestrion, to London.* Beginnings of the Beijing Opera....
) - August 19 – Jean DaubervalJean DaubervalJean Dauberval, a.k.a Jean D’Auberval, , was a French dancer and ballet master...
, dancer (died 18061806 in music-Events:*Carl Czerny publishes his first composition at the age of 15.*The marimba is described for the first time by Juan Domingo Juarros, a Spanish historian, in his Compendium of the History of Guatemala....
) - date unknown – Martha RayMartha RayMartha Ray was a British singer of the Georgian era. Her father was a corsetmaker and her mother was a servant in a noble household. Good-looking, intelligent, and a talented singer, she came to the attention of many of her father's patrons. She is best known for her affair with John Montagu, 4th...
, singer (died 17791779 in music- Events :*April – The London Magazine reports on the organ-playing of three-year-old prodigy William Crotch.*December 26 – Teatro alla Scala in Milan opens its operatic carnival season with Josef Mysliveček's new opera Armida....
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Deaths
- January 24 (buried) – Benedikt Anton AufschnaiterBenedikt Anton AufschnaiterBenedikt Anton Aufschnaiter was an Austrian Baroque composer.Aufschnaiter got much of his musical education in Vienna, where he lived for several years. Later he got a post at the band near to the emperor's court...
, composer (born 1665) - April 16 – Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, librettist (born 1672)
- June 28, Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner, composer
- July 12 – Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, violinist and composer (born 1675)
- August 25 – Carlos SeixasCarlos SeixasJosé António Carlos de Seixas, , was a Portuguese composer, the son of the cathedral organist, Francisco Vaz and Marcelina Nunes.Seixas was born in Coimbra...
, composer (born 1704) - date unknown
- Andrea Adami da BolsenaAndrea Adami da BolsenaAndrea Adami da Bolsena was an Italian castrato, musician later secretary to Cardinal Ottoboni.Bolsena was born in Bolsena. Until 1690 he was serving the former queen Christina I of Sweden, like Archangelo Corelli and the cellist Filippo Amadei...
, master of the papal choir (born 1663) - Matteo GoffrillerMatteo GoffrillerMatteo Goffriller was an Venetian luthier, particularly noted for the quality of his cellos.Although it is known that Goffriller was born in Brixen, little else is known of him prior to his days in Venice before 1685...
, cello-maker (born 1659)
- Andrea Adami da Bolsena