1744 in music
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Events
- March 27 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...
revives his St Mark Passion with some textual changes and two new arias inserted at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. - Castrato Giovanni CarestiniGiovanni CarestiniGiovanni Carestini was an Italian castrato of the 18th century, who sang in the operas and oratorios of George Frideric Handel...
goes to work for Maria Theresa of AustriaMaria Theresa of AustriaMaria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions and the last of the House of Habsburg. She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Mantua, Milan, Lodomeria and Galicia, the Austrian Netherlands and Parma...
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Classical music
- Thomas Arne – The Death of Abel (oratorio)
- 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...
– Das wohltemperierte Klavier, part 2 - Johan Helmich RomanJohan Helmich RomanJohan Helmich Roman was a Swedish Baroque composer. He has been called "the father of Swedish music" or "the Swedish Handel."-Life:...
– Drottningholm Music (Music for a Royal Wedding) - 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...
– L'errore di Salomone (oratorio)
Opera
- Daniele Dal Barba – Il Tigrane
- Christoph Willibald GluckChristoph Willibald GluckChristoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck was an opera composer of the early classical period. After many years at the Habsburg court at Vienna, Gluck brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years...
– Ipermestra - 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...
– Semele - John Frederick LampeJohn Frederick LampeJohn Frederick Lampe was a musician.He was born in Saxony, but came to England in 1724 and played the bassoon in opera houses. His wife, Isabella Lampe, was sister-in-law to the composer Thomas Arne with whom Lampe collaborated on a number of concert seasons...
– The Kiss Accepted and Returned
Births
- ?May – Marianne von MartinezMarianne von MartinezMarianna [Marianne] von Martines [Martinez] , was a singer, pianist and composer of the classical period.-Background:...
, singer, pianist and composer (d. 1812) - May 3 – Friedrich Wilhelm Weis, composer
- date unknown
- Gaetano BrunettiGaetano BrunettiGaetano Brunetti was a prolific Italian composer active in Spain under kings Charles III and IV...
, Italian composer (d. 1798) - Charles le PicqCharles le PicqCharles Le Picq was an influential French dancer and choreographer.Le Picq was a pupil of Jean Georges Noverre , one of the creators of modern ballet . He was called the Apollo of the dance and performed in many countries, such as France, Austria, Russia and Spain...
, French dancer and choreographer (d. 1806)
- Gaetano Brunetti
Deaths
- January 14 – Charles-Hubert GervaisCharles-Hubert GervaisCharles-Hubert Gervais was a French composer of the Baroque era. The son of a valet to King Louis XIV's brother, Monsieur, Gervais was born at the Palais Royal in Paris and probably educated by Monsieur's musical intendants, Jean Granouillet de Sablières and Charles Lalouette. He worked as a...
, composer (born 16711671 in musicThe year 1671 in music involved some significant events.-Events:*Opening of the Paris Opera.*Philippe Quinault, Molière and Pierre Corneille, collaborate with Jean-Baptiste Lully on a court entertainment....
) - January 20 – Richard JonesRichard Jones (composer)Richard Jones was an English composer and violinist.Jones's first publication appeared in 1720, a solo cantata While in a Lovely Rurall Seat. He was associated with the Drury Lane Theater Orchestra in London possibly as early as 1723; according to John Hawkins , in 1730 he succeeded Stefano...
, violinist and composer - February 15 – František Václav MíčaFrantišek Václav MíčaFrantišek Antonín Václav Míča was a Czech conductor and composer.Míča was born in Třebíč. He conducted many opera performances for royal families...
, conductor and composer (born 1694) - March 22 – Georg LenckGeorg LenckGeorg Lenck was a German musician. He was born in Reichenbach, Vogtland, Saxony, and was Kantor at Laucha an der Unstrut, near Naumberg when he competed unsuccessfully for the post of Thomaskantor at Leipzig, which was eventually offered to Johann Sebastian Bach...
, German musician (born 1685) - April 26 – Domenico SarroDomenico SarroDomenico Natale Sarro, also Sarri was an Italian composer.He studied at the Neapolitan conservatory of S. Onofrio. He composed extensively in the early 18th century. His opera Didone abbandonata, premiered on 1 February 1724 at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples, was the first setting of a major...
, Italian composer (born 16791679 in music-Events:*Victims of the plague in Vienna include Anna Catharina, wife of Johann Kaspar Kerll. Kerll later commemorates the event in his Modulatio organica.-Classical music:...
) - June 29 – André CampraAndré CampraAndré Campra was a French composer and conductor.Campra was one of the leading French opera composers in the period between Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Philippe Rameau. He wrote several tragédies en musique, but his chief claim to fame is as the creator of a new genre, opéra-ballet...
, composer (born 1660) - October 17 – Giuseppe GuarneriGiuseppe GuarneriBartolomeo Giuseppe Antonio Guarneri, del Gesù was an Italian luthier from the Guarneri house of Cremona. He rivals Antonio Stradivari with regard to the respect and reverence accorded his instruments, and he has been called the finest violin maker of the Amati line...
, violin-maker (born 1698) - October 31 – Leonardo LeoLeonardo LeoLeonardo Leo , more correctly Lionardo Oronzo Salvatore de Leo, was an Italian Baroque composer.-Biography:...
, composer (born 1694) - date unknown
- Claude BalonClaude BalonClaude Balon was a French dancer and choreographer. It is often supposed that the ballet term ballon is derived from his name....
, dancer and choreographer - Francesca Vanini-BoschiFrancesca Vanini-BoschiFrancesca Vanini-Boschi was an Italian contralto singer of the 18th century. She is best remembered for her association with the composer George Frideric Handel, whom she sung for at both Italy and London, though she also sang in operas by Alessandro Scarlatti and Giovanni Bononcini. She...
, operatic contralto
- Claude Balon