1738 in music
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- Antonio VivaldiAntonio VivaldiAntonio 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...
conducts a festival to celebrate the 100th opening of the Schouwburg theater - 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....
creates the Russian ballet.
Opera
- Thomas Arne – Comus
- Antonio BioniAntonio BioniAntonio Bioni was an Italian composer best known for his operas.He was born in Venice.-Operas:*Climene *Mitridate *Cajo Mario *Udine...
– Girita - 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...
– SerseSerseSerse is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. It was first performed in London on 15 April 1738. The Italian libretto was adapted by an unknown hand from that by Silvio Stampiglia for an earlier opera of the same name by Giovanni Bononcini in 1694...
and FaramondoFaramondoFaramondo is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel to an Italian text adapted from Apostolo Zeno's Faramondo.-Performance history:...
SerseSerseSerse is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. It was first performed in London on 15 April 1738. The Italian libretto was adapted by an unknown hand from that by Silvio Stampiglia for an earlier opera of the same name by Giovanni Bononcini in 1694...
and FaramondoFaramondoFaramondo is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel to an Italian text adapted from Apostolo Zeno's Faramondo.-Performance history:... - Giovanni Battista PescettiGiovanni Battista PescettiGiovanni Battista Pescetti was an organist and composer. Born in Venice around 1704, he studied under Antonio Lotti for some time...
– La Conquista del Vello D'Oro - Francesco Maria VeraciniFrancesco Maria Veracinithumb|150px|Francesco Maria Veracini.Francesco Maria Veracini was an Italian composer and violinist, perhaps best known for his sets of violin sonatas.-Life:Francesco Maria Veracini led a turbulent life...
– Rosalinda
Births
- May – Jonathan BattishillJonathan BattishillJonathan Battishill was an English composer, keyboard player, and concert tenor. He began his career as a composer writing theatre music but later devoted himself to working as an organist and composer for the Church of England...
, composer (died 1801) - August 14 – Leopold HofmannLeopold HofmannLeopold Hofmann was an Austrian composer of classical music.-Biography:...
, composer (died 1793) - November 15 – William HerschelWilliam HerschelSir Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS, German: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel was a German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and composer. Born in Hanover, Wilhelm first followed his father into the Military Band of Hanover, but emigrated to Britain at age 19...
, astronomer and composer (died 1822) - December 14 – Jan Antonín KoželuhJan Antonín KoželuhJan Antonín Koželuh was a renowned Bohemian composer from Velvary. He was a pupil of Josef Seger. He studied in Vienna and was a concert master in St. Vitus Cathedral for thirty years; his work includes both church and concert works...
, composer (died 1814) - date unknown
- Carlo BesozziCarlo Besozzi-Biography:Besozzi was born in Naples, the son of the oboist and composer Antonio Besozzi . Carlo Besozzi joined his father in the Dresden court orchestra from 1754. However, the Dresden opera house was destroyed by the Prussians in the Seven Years' War , breaking up the remarkable group of...
, oboist and composer (died 1791) - Thomas EbdonThomas EbdonThomas Ebdon was a British composer and organist born in Durham. He was a chorister at Durham Cathedral and became the organist there at the age of 35 after some wrangling between the Chapter and Dean. He died in office...
, organist and composer (died 1811)
- Carlo Besozzi
Deaths
- January 6 – Franz Xaver MurschhauserFranz Xaver MurschhauserFranz Xaver Murschhauser was a German composer and theorist.He was born in Saverne, Alsace, but he is first mentioned as a singer and instrumentalist at St Peter’s School in Munich, in 1676. He studied music with the Kantor, Siegmund Auer and, from 1683 to his death in 1693, Johann Caspar Kerll...
, German composer (born 1663) - January 17 – Jean-François DandrieuJean-François DandrieuJean-François Dandrieu was a French Baroque composer, harpsichordist and organist.He was born in Paris into a family of artists and musicians. A gifted and precocious child, he gave his first public performances when he was 5 years old, playing the harpsichord for Louis XIV, King of France, and...
, harpsichordist, organist and composer (born c. 1682) - March 25 – Turlough O'CarolanTurlough O'CarolanTurlough Carolan, also known as Turlough O'Carolan, was a blind, early Irish harper, composer and singer whose great fame is due to his gift for melodic composition. He was the last great Irish harper-composer and is considered by many to be Ireland's national composer...
, harpist and composer (born 1670) - July 20 – Tommaso Redi, composer (born c.1675)
- August 29 – Georg ReutterGeorg ReutterGeorg Reutter was an Austrian organist, theorbo player and composer.- Biography :Reutter was born in Vienna and became a pupil of Johann Caspar Kerll, whom he later succeeded as organist at St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, in 1686. In 1695 he spent some time in Italy...
, organist and composer (born 1656) - September 23 – Carlo Agostino BadiaCarlo Agostino BadiaCarlo Agostino Badia was an Italian composer best known for his operas.Badia was born in Verona and around 1697 moved to Vienna, where many of his operas were premiered...
, opera composer (born 1672) - December 22 – Jean-Joseph MouretJean-Joseph MouretJean-Joseph Mouret was a French composer whose dramatic works made him one of the leading exponents of Baroque music in his country...
, composer (born 1681) - date unknown
- Baron Anders von Düben, director of the Royal Swedish Orchestra (born 1673)
- José de TorresJosé de TorresJosé de Torres y Martínez Bravo was a Spanish composer, organist, music theorist and music publisher.Torres was born in Madrid, where he served as organist of the capilla real from 1697. With the arrival of the Bourbons, Torres was expelled from the capilla, but avoided exile and was rehabilitated...
, composer (born 1665)