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Events

  • The Academy of Vocal Music changes its name to the Academy of Ancient Music
    Academy of Ancient Music
    The Academy of Ancient Music is a period-instrument orchestra based in Cambridge, England. Founded by harpsichordist Christopher Hogwood in 1973, it was named after a previous organisation of the same name of the 18th century. The musicians play on either original instruments or modern copies of...

    .
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau
    Jean-Philippe Rameau
    Jean-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...

     meets his patron, La Pouplinière.
  • Antonio Stradivari
    Antonio Stradivari
    Antonio Stradivari was an Italian luthier and a crafter of string instruments such as violins, cellos, guitars, violas, and harps. Stradivari is generally considered the most significant artisan in this field. The Latinized form of his surname, Stradivarius, as well as the colloquial, "Strad", is...

     makes a viola
    Viola
    The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...

     that will be owned a hundred years later by Niccolò Paganini
    Niccolò Paganini
    Niccolò Paganini was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was one of the most celebrated violin virtuosi of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique...

    .
  • Antonio Vivaldi
    Antonio Vivaldi
    Antonio 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...

     returns to Venice.
  • March 23 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...

     premieres his St Mark Passion BWV 247 (BC D 4) at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.

Classical music

  • Wachet aufJohann 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...

  • Collection of flute pieces – Louis Caix d’Hervelois

Opera

  • Tommaso Albinoni – Fano
  • Francesco Corradini – Con amor non hay libertad
  • Francesco Corselli – Venere placata
  • Carl Heinrich Graun
    Carl Heinrich Graun
    Carl 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:...

     – Iphigenia in Aulis
  • George Frideric Handel
    George Frideric Handel
    George 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...

     – Poro re dell'Indie, revival of Tamerlano
    Tamerlano
    Tamerlano is an opera in three acts written for the Royal Academy of Music , with music by George Frideric Handel to an Italian text by Nicola Francesco Haym, adapted from Agostin Piovene's Tamerlano together with another libretto entitled Bajazet after Nicolas Pradon's Tamerlan, ou La Mort de...

  • Johann Adolf Hasse – Cleofide
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
    Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
    Giovanni Battista Pergolesi was an Italian composer, violinist and organist.-Biography:Born at Iesi, Pergolesi studied music there under a local musician, Francesco Santini, before going to Naples in 1725, where he studied under Gaetano Greco and Francesco Feo among others...

     – La concersione e morte di San Guglielmo

Births

  • September 7 – Elisabetta de Gambarini
    Elisabetta de Gambarini
    Elisabetta de Gambarini was an English composer, singer, organist and harpsichordist of the 18th century born in London of an Italian father, Charles Gambarini.She took part as a soprano in Handel's oratorio Judas Maccabaeus at 1 April 1747...

    , composer (died 1765)
  • December – Christian Cannabich
    Christian Cannabich
    Johann Christian Innocenz Bonaventura Cannabich , was a German violinist, composer, and Kapellmeister of the Classical era...

    , composer (died 1798)
  • December 8 – František Xaver Dušek
    František Xaver Dušek
    František Xaver Dušek , was a Czech composer and one of the most important harpsichordists and pianists of his time....

    , harpsichordist, pianist and composer (died 1799)
  • date unknown - Pierre Vachon
    Pierre Vachon
    Pierre Vachon was a French composer.Vachon was born in Avignon. He wrote around thirty string quartets, various chamber works, operas, and orchestral pieces. He studied the violin with Carlo Chiabrano in Paris and first performed on 24 December 1756, at the Concert Spirituel, playing one of his...

    , composer (died

Deaths

  • January 27 – Bartolomeo Cristofori
    Bartolomeo Cristofori
    Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco was an Italian maker of musical instruments, generally regarded as the inventor of the piano.-Life:...

    , inventor of an early form of piano (born 1655)
  • May 1 (buried) – Johann Ludwig Bach
    Johann Ludwig Bach
    Johann Ludwig Bach was a composer and violinist.He was born in Thal. At the age of 22 he moved to Meiningen eventually being appointed cantor there, and later Kapellmeister...

    , violinist and composer (born 1677)
  • November – Johann Caspar Wilcke, musician and father of Anna Magdalena Bach
    Anna Magdalena Bach
    Anna Magdalena Bach was the second wife of Johann Sebastian Bach.-Biography:...

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