1748 in music
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Events
- April 12 Possible premiere 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...
's last St Mark Passion pasticheSt Mark Passion pasticheIn 1754, the musician and theorist Lorenz Christoph Mizler published as an addendum in the most recent volume of his Neu eröffnete musikalische Bibliothek a series of three obituaries of recently deceased members of his Korrespondierende Sozietät der Musicalischen Wissenschaften...
(BC D 5) at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. In addition to two movements by Bach, he incorporates seven arias from 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...
's 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 into the work. - August 1748–October 1749 Repeat (possible concert hall) performance by Bach of Handel's 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 in a version by Bach. - Nicola PorporaNicola PorporaNicola Porpora was an Italian composer of Baroque operas and teacher of singing, whose most famous singing student was the castrato Farinelli. One of his other students was composer Matteo Capranica.-Biography:Porpora was born in Naples...
becomes KapellmeisterKapellmeisterKapellmeister is a German word designating a person in charge of music-making. The word is a compound, consisting of the roots Kapelle and Meister . The words Kapelle and Meister derive from the Latin: capella and magister...
at Dresden.
1748–1749 Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann 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...
compiles his Mass in B minor BWV 232 (BC E 1).
Classical Music
- Gregor WernerGregor Werner-Career:Werner was born in Ybbs an der Donau. He served from 1715 to either 1716 or 1721 as the organist at Melk Abbey. During the 1720s he was in Vienna, where he may have studied with Johann Fux and was married on 27 January 1727....
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Opera
- 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...
- ZaïsZaïsZaïs is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau first performed on 29 February 1748 at the Opéra in Paris. It takes the form of a pastorale héroïque in four acts and a prologue. The librettist was Louis de Cahusac....
, premiered on February 29 - PygmalionPygmalion (opera)Pygmalion is a monodrama in one act by composer Georg Benda with a German libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter. The opera's first performance was at the Ekhof Theater, the court theatre in Gotha, on September 20, 1779. Pygmalion was the fourth of the five theatrical collaborations of Benda and...
, premiered on August 27 - Les surprises de l'AmourLes surprises de l'AmourLes surprises de l'Amour is an opéra-ballet in two entrées and a prologue by the French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. It was first performed in Versailles on 27 November 1748. The opera is set to a libretto by Gentil-Bernard...
, premiered on November 27
- Zaïs
Births
- February 5 – Christian Gottlob NeefeChristian Gottlob NeefeChristian Gottlob Neefe was a German opera composer and conductor.Neefe was born in Chemnitz, Saxony. He received a musical education and started to compose at the age of 12...
, conductor, teacher (Ludwig van BeethovenLudwig van BeethovenLudwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
was a student), and composer (died 1798) - March 5 — William ShieldWilliam ShieldWilliam Shield was an English composer, violinist and violist who was born in Swalwell near Gateshead, the son of William Shield and his wife, Mary, née Cash.-Life and musical career:...
, violinist and composer (died 1829) - April 20 – Georg Michael TelemannGeorg Michael TelemannGeorg Michael Telemann was a German composer and theologian.Telemann was born in Plön, a grandson of the better-known Georg Philipp Telemann. He is mainly known for the church music he wrote. He died in Riga....
, composer (died 1831) - August 11 – Joseph SchusterJoseph Schuster (composer)Joseph Schuster was a German composer.-Life and career:Schuster was born at Dresden, where he received his first musical training from his father, a court musician, and from Johann Georg Schürer. Thanks to a scholarship from the Saxon Prince-electors, he was able to study with Giovanni Battista...
, composer (died 1812) - August 31 – Jean-Étienne DespréauxJean-Étienne DespréauxJean-Étienne Despréaux was a French ballet dancer, choreographer, composer, singer and playwright.He was an author of several opera parodies, appreciated by king Louis XV of France, including Berlingue based on Philidor's Ernelinde, princesse de Norvège.He retired in 1781 with pension of 1,000...
, singer, dancer and composer (died 1820) - November 30 – Joachim AlbertiniJoachim AlbertiniJoachim Albertini or Gioacchino Albertini was an Italian-born composer, who spent most of his life in Poland. His opera Don Juan albo Ukarany libertyn was performed in the 1780s with both Italian and Polish libretti....
, composer (died 1812) - date unknown – Hedvig WigertHedvig WigertHedvig Christina Wigert was a Swedish opera singer. She belonged to the famous pioneer group of performers of the Royal Swedish Opera....
, opera singer (died 1780)
Deaths
- January 26 – Pierre RameauPierre RameauPierre Rameau , was the French dancing master to Elisabetta Farnese, and the author of two books that now provide us with valuable information about Baroque dance....
, dancing-master (born 1674) - February 26 – Jean-Baptiste LandéJean-Baptiste LandéJean-Baptiste Landé was a French ballet dancer, active in Sweden, Denmark and Russia. He is the founder of the Russian Ballet Mariinsky Ballet....
, ballet dancer - March 23 — Johann Gottfried WaltherJohann Gottfried WaltherJohann Gottfried Walther was a German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer of the Baroque era.Walther was born at Erfurt...
, composer and theoretician (born 1684) - November 25 — Isaac WattsIsaac WattsIsaac Watts was an English hymnwriter, theologian and logician. A prolific and popular hymnwriter, he was recognised as the "Father of English Hymnody", credited with some 750 hymns...
, hymn writer (born 1674) - date unknown
- William CorbettWilliam Corbett (composer)William Corbett was an English composer, violinist, and concert performer. The Director of New Theater from 1700, Corbett was appointed orchestra director of King's Theatre, The Haymarket in 1705 and became a member of the Royal Orchestra in 1709.In 1716, he was appointed Director of the King's...
, violinist and composer (born 1680) - Charles KingCharles King (composer)Charles King was an English composer and musician of the 17th and 18th centuries who at one time held the post of Almoner and Master of Choristers for St. Paul's Cathedral under John Blow and Jeremiah Clarke.-Biography:...
, choir-master and composer (born 1687) - Jacques LoeilletJacques LoeilletJacques Loeillet was a Baroque-era composer and oboist. He was born in Ghent, Belgium, which was then part of Spanish Netherlands. He was the younger brother of Jean-Baptiste Loeillet. He composed works for oboe, violin and for string ensembles....
, oboist and composer (born 1685) - David TecchlerDavid TecchlerDavid Tecchler was an Austrian luthier, best known for his cellos and double basses.Tecchler was born in Salzburg, Austria, where he worked for a time. He also lived and worked in Venice and in Rome, Italy...
, luthier (born 1666)
- William Corbett