1745 in music
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Events
- April 16 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 the anonymous St Luke Passion BWV 246 (BC D 6a) with an additional chorale by Bach himself at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig. - Thomas Arne enlarges the orchestra at Vauxhall GardensVauxhall GardensVauxhall Gardens was a pleasure garden, one of the leading venues for public entertainment in London, England from the mid 17th century to the mid 19th century. Originally known as New Spring Gardens, the site was believed to have opened before the Restoration of 1660 with the first mention being...
, taking on John HebdenJohn HebdenJohn Hebden was a composer and musician in 18th century Great Britain.Little is known of Hebden's life. He was baptized on 21 July 1712 at Spofforth, near Harrogate in Yorkshire, the son of 'John Hebdin' of Plompton. He was orphaned when young but was fortunate enough to receive an excellent...
as principal cellist and bassoonist. - 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...
returns to Venice and becomes Second Organist at St Mark's BasilicaSt Mark's BasilicaThe Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Venice, northern Italy. It is the most famous of the city's churches and one of the best known examples of Byzantine architecture...
. - After 1745 Bach performs the Passion cantata pastiche Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt (BC D 10).
Opera
- Ferdinando BertoniFerdinando BertoniFerdinando Bertoni was an Italian composer and organist.He was born in Salò, and began his music studies in Brescia, not far from his birthplace. Around 1740 he went to Bologna, where he studied till 1745 with the famous music theorist Giovanni Battista Martini...
– La vedova accorta - 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...
– Comus (based on the masque by John MiltonJohn MiltonJohn Milton was an English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell...
) - 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...
– Platée - Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological and educational thought.His novel Émile: or, On Education is a treatise...
– Les Muses galantes - Georg Christoph WagenseilGeorg Christoph WagenseilGeorg Christoph Wagenseil was an Austrian composer.He was born in Vienna, and became a favorite pupil of the Vienna court'sKapellmeister, Johann Joseph Fux. Wagenseil himself composed for the...
– Ariodante
Births
- February – Johann Peter SalomonJohann Peter SalomonJohann Peter Salomon was a German violinist, composer, conductor and musical impresario.-Life:...
, violinist, conductor and composer (died 1815) - May 7 – Carl StamitzCarl StamitzKarl Philipp Stamitz , who later changed his given name to Carl, was a German composer of partial Czech ancestry , and a violin, viola and viola d'amore virtuoso...
, composer (died 1801) - August 19 – Johann Ignaz Ludwig Fischer, operatic bass (died 1825)
- December 9 – Maddalena Laura SirmenMaddalena Laura SirmenMaddalena Sirmen was an Italian composer, violinist, and later unsuccessful singer.-Biography:Sirmen was born in Venice to poverty-stricken parents, noble by birth...
, violinist, singer and composer (died 1818) - December 25 – Chevalier de Saint-GeorgesChevalier de Saint-GeorgesJoseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George was an important figures in the Paris musical scene in the second half of the 18th century as composer, conductor, and violinist. Prior to the revolution in France, he was also famous as a swordsman and equestrian...
, the "Black Mozart" (died 1799) - date unknown – Sophia BaddeleySophia BaddeleySophia Baddeley was an English actress, singer and courtesan.- Early life, musical career :She was born in London, the daughter of Valentine Snow, a sergeant-trumpeter. As a child, she was trained by her father for a future musical career. At the age of eighteen she eloped with the actor Robert...
, actress and singer (died 1786)
Deaths
- February 18 – Nicola FagoNicola FagoNicola Fago was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher.-Biography:Born in Taranto, he studied music at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini in Naples between 1693 and 1695. Between 1704 and 1708 he worked at the Conservatorio Sant´Onofrio...
, composer and music teacher (born 1677) - March 15 – Michel de la BarreMichel de la BarreMichel de la Barre was a French composer and renowned flautist known as being the first person to publish solo flute music...
, flautist and composer (born c.1675) - April 27 – Jean-Baptiste MorinJean-Baptiste Morin (composer)Jean-Baptiste Morin was a French composer and the "Ordinaire de la Musique" to Philippe, Duke of Orléans before and perhaps during his regency. 1719-1731 was Morin "Maître de musique" of Louise-Adélaïde of Orléans, daughter of the Duke, at the royal abbey of Chelles, near Paris.Morin was born in...
, composer (born 1677) - May 9 – Tomaso Antonio VitaliTomaso Antonio VitaliTomaso Antonio Vitali was an Italian composer and violinist from Bologna, the eldest son of Giovanni Battista Vitali...
, violinist and composer (born 1663) - June – Johann Wilhelm DreseJohann Wilhelm DreseJohann Wilhelm Drese was a German composer, son of Johann Samuel Drese, whom Johann Wilhelm succeeded as Kapellmeister at Weimar during the time J.S. Bach was active there....
, composer (born 1677) - June 28 – Antoine ForquerayAntoine ForquerayAntoine Forqueray was a French composer and virtuoso of the viola da gamba.Forqueray, born in Paris, was the first in a line of composers who included his brother Michel and his sons Jean-Baptiste and Nicolas Gilles...
, viola da gamba player and composer (born 1672) - October 24 – Antonio VeraciniAntonio VeraciniAntonio Veracini was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era.Antonio Veracini was born in Florence, Italy...
, violinist and composer (born 1659) - December 23 – Jan Dismas ZelenkaJan Dismas ZelenkaJan Dismas Zelenka , baptised Jan Lukáš Zelenka and previously also known as Johann Dismas Zelenka, was the most important Czech Baroque composer, whose music was notably daring with outstanding harmonic invention and mastery of counterpoint.- Life :Zelenka was born in Louňovice pod Blaníkem, a small...
, composer (born 1679) - date unknown
- Charles CoffeyCharles CoffeyCharles Coffey was an Irish playwright and composer.His best known opera is probably The Beggar’s Wedding , which capitalizes on the success of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera...
, dramatist and composer - Christoph FörsterChristoph FörsterCristoph Förster was a German composer best known for his Oboe concertos. At the peak of his career, he was the musical director at the court of Merseburg. His works, such as his horn concerto, were published by the Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag....
, composer (born 1693)
- Charles Coffey