1750 in music
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Events
- FarinelliFarinelliFarinelli , was the stage name of Carlo Maria Broschi, celebrated Italian castrato singer of the 18th century and one of the greatest singers in the history of opera.- Early years :...
is knighted by King Ferdinand VI of SpainFerdinand VI of SpainFerdinand VI , called the Learnt, was King of Spain from 9 July 1746 until his death. He was the fourth son of the previous monarch Philip V and his first wife Maria Luisa of Savoy...
. - Ten-year-old Carl Ditters von DittersdorfCarl Ditters von Dittersdorf----August Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf was an Austrian composer, violinist and silvologist.-1739-1764:...
begins playing with the Viennese Schottenkirche orchestra. - Bach dictates Chorale preludes BWV 666 and 667 to pupil and son-in-law Johann Christoph Altnikol. These are then added to the 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...
(BWV 668 is added posthumously).
Classical music
- 1750 is commonly used to mark the end of the Baroque period
- Leopold MozartLeopold MozartJohann Georg Leopold Mozart was a German composer, conductor, teacher, and violinist. Mozart is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule.-Childhood and student years:He was born in Augsburg, son of...
– Partita for Violin, Cello and Double Bass "Frog"
Opera
- 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:...
– Il filosofo convinto in amore - William Boyce – The Roman Father
Births
- January 25 – Johann Gottfried VierlingJohann Gottfried VierlingJohann Gottfried Vierling was a German organist and composer.Vierling was born in Metzels. From 1763 he studied at the Lyzeum in Schmalkalden. In 1768 he succeeded his teacher Johann Nikolaus Tischer as organist in Schmalkalden. He later continued his musical studies with Carl Philipp Emanuel...
, organist and composer (died 1813) - March 23 – Johannes Matthias SpergerJohannes Matthias SpergerJohannes Matthias Sperger, also often Johann, was an Austrian contrabassist and composer....
, contrabassist and composer (died 1812) - August 18 – Antonio SalieriAntonio SalieriAntonio Salieri was a Venetian classical composer, conductor and teacher born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, but who spent his adult life and career as a faithful subject of the Habsburg monarchy....
, composer (died 1825) - date unknown
- Mikhail MatinskyMikhail MatinskyMikhail Alexeyevich Matinsky was a Russian scientist, dramatist, librettist and opera composer.-Biography:Matinsky originated from the serfs of Count S. P. Yaguzhinsky. He studied in the gymnasium for the "raznochintsy" at Moscow University and also in Italy. Later he taught mathematics at the...
, librettist and opera composer (died c. 1820)
- Mikhail Matinsky
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- Antonio RosettiAntonio RosettiAntonio Rosetti was a classical era composer and double bass player, and was a contemporary of Haydn and Mozart....
, composer (died 1792) - Anton StamitzAnton StamitzAntonín Thadaeus Jan Nepomuk Stamic was a German composer and violinist.Anton and his brother Carl received their first violin instruction from their father, Johann. After their father's death in 1757 they were taken on as students by Christian Cannabich, who had been a student of their father's...
, composer (died c.1805)
- Antonio Rosetti
Deaths
- January 4 – Christoph SchützChristoph SchützChristoph Schütz was a pietist writer and a songbook publisher.Schütz's book, Die Güldene Rose. . . von der Wiederbringung Aller Dinge Christoph Schütz (November 6, 1689 in Umstadt, Germany - January 4, 1750 in Bad Homburg, Germany) was a pietist writer and a songbook publisher.Schütz's book, Die...
, music publisher (born 1689) - January 29 - Sophia SchröderSophia SchröderSophia Schröder was a Swedish soprano , active as a concert vocalist at the royal orchestra, the Kungliga Hovkapellet, at the royal Swedish court, the first woman to have been officially given such a position.Sophia Schröder was born in Stockholm to German immigrants...
, vocalist at the Kungliga HovkapelletKungliga HovkapelletKungliga Hovkapellet , is a Swedish orchestra and was located at the Royal Court in Sweden's capital Stockholm. It was first recorded in 1526. Since 1773 it is part of the Royal Swedish Opera's company....
(born 1712) - February 22 – Pietro Filippo ScarlattiPietro Filippo ScarlattiPietro Filippo Scarlatti was an Italian composer, organist and choirmaster.He was born in Rome, the eldest of Alessandro Scarlatti's children and a brother of composer Domenico Scarlatti - began his musical career in 1705 as choirmaster of the cathedral of Urbino...
, organist, choirmaster and composer (born 1679) - March 6 – Domenico MontagnanaDomenico MontagnanaDomenico Montagnana was an Italian master luthier based in Venice, Italy. He is regarded as one of the world's finest violin and cello makers of his time....
, luthier (born 1686) - June 2 – Johann Valentin Rathgeber, composer (born 1682)
- July 28 – 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...
, composer (born 1685) - September – Charles Theodore PachelbelCharles Theodore PachelbelCharles Theodore Pachelbel was a German composer, organist and harpsichordist of the late Baroque era...
, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1690) - October 3 – Georg Matthias MonnGeorg Matthias MonnGeorg Matthias Monn was an Austrian composer, organist and music teacher whose works were fashioned in the transition from the Baroque to Classical period in music....
, composer (born 1717) - October 16 – Sylvius Leopold WeissSylvius Leopold WeissSilvius Leopold Weiss was a German composer and lutenist.Born in Grottkau near Breslau, the son of Johann Jacob Weiss, also a lutenist, he served at courts in Breslau, Rome, and Dresden, where he died...
, lutenist and composer (born 1687) - November – Giuseppe SammartiniGiuseppe SammartiniGiuseppe Baldassare Sammartini was an Italian composer and an oboist.A native of Milan, he moved to London together with his brother Giovanni Battista Sammartini. He had started playing the oboe in Milan and in London took up the post of oboist in the Opera orchestra in 1727...
, oboist and composer (born 1695) - date unknown
- Francesco GoffrillerFrancesco GoffrillerFrancesco Goffriller was an Italian violin, viola, and cello maker thought to be active between 1709 and 1739...
, violin maker (born 1692) - John Tufts, music teacher (born 16891689 in music-Events:*September 1 - Johann Joseph Vilsmayr begins work at the Hofkapelle in Salzburg.*Nicolaus Bruhns is appointed town organist at Husum.-Classical music:*Jean-Henri d'Anglebert – Pièces de clavecin*Arcangelo Corelli – Op...
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- Francesco Goffriller