1746 in music
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Events
- April 8 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...
performs a copy he made of the Brockes PassionBrockes PassionThe Brockes Passion, or Der für die Sünde der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesus is a German oratorio libretto by Barthold Heinrich Brockes, first published in 1712 and going through 30 or so editions in the next 15 years....
HWV 48 of 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...
at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. - Elias Gottlieb Haussmann completes his famous portrait of 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...
- 1746–1747 Bach adds two Chorale preludes (BWV 664 and 665) to his manuscript of the Great Eighteen Chorale PreludesGreat Eighteen Chorale PreludesThe Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes, BWV 651–668, are a set of chorale preludes for organ prepared by Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig in his final decade 1740-1750, from earlier works composed in Weimar, where he was court organist...
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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...
– Sechs Choräle von verschiedener Art - 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...
– Occasional Oratorio, with words by Newburgh HamiltonNewburgh HamiltonNewburgh Hamilton was born in County Tyrone, Ireland and entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1708, aged sixteen, but he left without obtaining a degree. He is known to have been Handel’s librettist for three works: Alexander’s Feast , Samson and the Occasional Oratorio...
Opera
- Andrea AdolfatiAndrea AdolfatiAndrea Adolfati was an Italian composer who is particularly remembered for his output of opera serias. His works are generally conventional and stylistically similar to the operas of his teacher Baldassare Galuppi...
– La pace fra la virtù e la bellezza - Thomas Arne – Neptune and Amphitrite
- Matteo CapranicaMatteo CapranicaMatteo Capranica was an Italian composer. Born in Amatrice, Capranica studied at the Conservatorio di Sant'Onofrio a Porta Capuana in Naples under Nicola Porpora, Ignazio Prota, and Francesco Feo. After completing his studies he worked as maestro di cappella at various churches in Naples and...
– Alcibiade - Jean-Marie LeclairJean-Marie LeclairJean-Marie Leclair l'aîné, also known as Jean-Marie Leclair the Elder, was a Baroque violinist and composer. He is considered to have founded the French violin school...
– Scylla et Glaucus
Births
- June 3 (probable) – James Hook (composer)James Hook (composer)James Hook was an English composer and organist.-Life and musical career:He was born in Norwich, the son of James Hook, a razor-grinder and cutler. He displayed a remarkable musical talent at an early age, playing the harpsichord by the age of four and performing concertos in public at age six...
, composer (died 1827) - November 15 – Joseph QuesnelJoseph QuesnelJoseph Quesnel was a French Canadian composer, poet, and playwright. Among his works were two operas, Colas et Colinette and Lucas et Cécile; the former is considered to be the first Canadian opera....
, composer (died 1809)
Deaths
- March 30 – Jean-Joseph FioccoJean-Joseph FioccoJean-Joseph Fiocco was a Flemish composer of the high and late Baroque period.His father was the Venetian composer Pietro Antonio Fiocco , and his brothers included the violinist Joseph-Hector...
, composer (b. 1686) - May 15 – Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, composer
- August 27 – Johann Caspar Ferdinand FischerJohann Caspar Ferdinand FischerJohann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer was a German Baroque composer...
, composer - December 10 – Teodorico PedriniTeodorico PedriniTeodorico Pedrini was an Italian priest, missionary, musician and composer.Pedrini was born in Fermo, Italy. He was the founder of the Xizhimen Church in Beijing...
, priest, musician and composer (b. 1671) - unknown date – Jean-Baptiste MalterJean-Baptiste MalterJean-Baptiste Malter was a French dancer and dance master, known under the names Aubin-Jean-Michel Malter, Jean-Baptiste or Jean-Nicolas...
, dancer (b. 1701)