1747 in music
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Events
- April 31 Possible premiere of 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...
's last St Mark Passion pasticheSt Mark Passion pasticheIn 1754, the musician and theorist Lorenz Christoph Mizler published as an addendum in the most recent volume of his Neu eröffnete musikalische Bibliothek a series of three obituaries of recently deceased members of his Korrespondierende Sozietät der Musicalischen Wissenschaften...
(BC D 5) at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig. In addition to two movements by Bach, he incorporates seven arias from 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...
's Brockes PassionBrockes PassionThe Brockes Passion, or Der für die Sünde der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesus is a German oratorio libretto by Barthold Heinrich Brockes, first published in 1712 and going through 30 or so editions in the next 15 years....
HWV 48 into the work. - 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...
is presented to King Frederick II of PrussiaFrederick II of PrussiaFrederick II was a King in Prussia and a King of Prussia from the Hohenzollern dynasty. In his role as a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire, he was also Elector of Brandenburg. He was in personal union the sovereign prince of the Principality of Neuchâtel...
in Berlin; the king plays a theme for Bach and challenges the musician to improvise a six-part fugue based on it. - Luigi BoccheriniLuigi BoccheriniLuigi Rodolfo Boccherini was an Italian classical era composer and cellist whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini is most widely known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No...
goes to Rome to study the cello.
Classical music
- Maria Teresa AgnesiMaria Teresa AgnesiMaria Teresa Agnesi was an Italian composer. Though she was most famous for her compositions, she was also an accomplished harpsichordist and singer, and the majority of her surviving compositions were written for keyboard, the voice, or both. She was born in Milan to Pietro Agnesi, an...
– Il restauro d'Arcadia (cantata) - 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...
– Pièces de viole mises en pièces de clavecin (posthumously published) - 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...
– Judas MaccabeusJudas MaccabeusJudah Maccabee was a Kohen and a son of the Jewish priest Mattathias...
(oratorio) - 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...
– La Dauphine (harpsichord piece).
Births
- March 29 – Johann Wilhelm HässlerJohann Wilhelm HässlerJohann Wilhelm Hässler , was a German composer, organist and pianist.Hässler was born in Erfurt, Germany. He first studied under his uncle Johann Christian Kittel, who was an organist at Erfurt. His first post was as organist of the local Barfilsserkirche in around 1762...
, German organist and composer (died 18221822 in music- Events :*March 16 – Marriage of Gioacchino Rossini and Spanish soprano Isabella Colbran.*Official date of the invention of the accordion by Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann...
) - March 31 – Johann Abraham Peter SchulzJohann Abraham Peter SchulzJohann Abraham Peter Schulz was a German musician and composer. Today he is best known as the composer of the melody for Matthias Claudius's poem "Der Mond ist aufgegangen" and the Christmas carol "Ihr Kinderlein kommet".-Life:Schulz attended the Michaelis School from 1757 to 1759 and then the...
, musician and composer (died 18001800 in music-Events:*January 16 – Luigi Cherubini's opera, Les Deux Journées , debuts in Paris at the Salle Feydeau.*September 16 – François-Adrien Boïeldieu's opera, Le calife de Bagdad, opens at Paris's Salle Favart.-Classical music:...
) - July 23 – Faustino ArévaloFaustino ArévaloFaustino Arévalo was a Spanish Jesuit hymnographer and patrologist....
, hymnographer (died 1824) - November 29 – Giovanni Mane Giornovichi, violinist and composer (died 18041804 in music-Events:*Beethoven angrily renames his Third Symphony from the Napoleon to the Eroica after Napoleon crowns himself emperor.*Nicolas Dalayrac is awarded the Légion d'honneur.-Classical music:*Ludwig van Beethoven** Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major written...
) - date unknown
- Narciso CasanovasNarciso CasanovasNarciso Casanovas was a Spanish composer who became a Benedictine monk in 1763 at Montserrat, where he remained for the rest of his life. As well as sacred music, he wrote single-movement sonatas for the keyboard.-References:...
, Spanish monk and composer - Michael Ehregott GroseMichael Ehregott GroseMichael Ehregott Grose was a Danish organist and composer. Notable works include Samling af lette Harpe, Claveer og Syngestykker for Liebhavere og Begyndere and Morgenen .-External links:...
, Danish organist and composer (died 17951795 in music- Events :*Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna following second London visit.*Franz Krommer settles in Vienna.-Classical music:*Ludwig van Beethoven – Three Piano Trios, Op. 1*Joseph Haydn**Symphonies 103 in E-flat "Drum Roll" and 104 in D "London"...
) - François TourteFrançois TourteFrançois Xavier Tourte was a Frenchman who, though trained as a watchmaker, soon changed to making bows for playing classical string instruments such as the violin....
, maker of violin bows (died 1835)
- Narciso Casanovas
Deaths
- January 2 – Jean-Féry RebelJean-Féry RebelJean-Féry Rebel was an innovative French Baroque composer and violinist.-Biography:Rebel , a son of the singer Jean Rebel, a tenor in Louis XIV's private chapel, was a child violin prodigy. He became, at the age of eight, one of his father's most famous musical offspring. Later, he was a student...
, violinist and composer (born 16661666 in music-Events:*The Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna is founded.*Louis Grabu becomes Master of the King's Musick, under King Charles II of England.*Jean-Baptiste Boësset and Jean-Baptiste Lully end their musical collaboration, which had lasted since 1653....
) - February 2 – Francisco VallsFrancisco VallsFrancisco Valls was a Spanish composer, theorist and maestro de capilla. Among his most known works are the mass Missa Scala Aretina and tract Mapa Armónico Práctico.-Life:...
, church composer (born 1665) - February 26 – Johann Nicolaus MempelJohann Nicolaus MempelJohann Nicolaus Mempel was a German musician.He was born in Heyda . From 1740 to his death, he was cantor in Apolda...
, musician (born 1713) - June 6 – Jean-Baptiste BarrièreJean-Baptiste BarrièreJean-Baptiste Barrière was a French cellist and composer. He was born in Bordeaux and died in Paris, at 40 years of age.-Musical career:Barrière first studied the viol, and published a set of viol sonatas...
, cellist and composer (born 1707) - June 19 – Alessandro MarcelloAlessandro MarcelloAlessandro Marcello was an Italian nobleman, poet, philosopher, mathematician and musician.-Biography:...
, composer (born 16691669 in music-Events:*February 17 – Première of Alessandro Melani's opera L'empio punito at the Teatro di Palazzo Colonna in Rome. The work was commissioned by Marie Mancini.- Classical music :*Giovanni Maria Bononcini – Op...
) - July 9 – Giovanni Bononcini, composer (born 16701670 in music- Events :*June – Christian Geist joins the Swedish court orchestra under Gustaf Düben.*October 14 – First performance of Molière's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, a five-act comédie-ballet – a play intermingled with music, dance and singing – at the court of King Louis XIV of France.- Classical music...
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