1755 in music
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Events
- In Britain, William Boyce is appointed Master of the King's Musick.
- After a tour of Ireland fraught with disagreements, Thomas Arne and his wife, the soprano Cecilia Young, agree to separate.
- 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...
becomes choirmaster at the Ospedale dei Mendicanti in VeniceVeniceVenice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
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Classical music
- Carl Heinrich GraunCarl Heinrich GraunCarl 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:...
– Der Tod Jesu - Leopold MozartLeopold MozartJohann Georg Leopold Mozart was a German composer, conductor, teacher, and violinist. Mozart is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule.-Childhood and student years:He was born in Augsburg, son of...
– Divertimento in F major "Musical Sleigh Ride" - Georg Philipp TelemannGeorg Philipp TelemannGeorg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesheim, Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to study law, but eventually...
- Der Tod Jesu TWV 5:6
Opera
- Johann Friedrich AgricolaJohann Friedrich AgricolaJohann Friedrich Agricola was a German composer, organist, singer, pedagogue, and writer on music. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Flavio Anicio Olibrio.-Biography:...
– Il tempio d'amore - Pierre-Montan Berton – Deucalion et Pyrrha
- Egidio Romualdo DuniEgidio Romualdo DuniEgidio Romualdo Duni was an Italian composer who studied in Naples and worked in Italy, France and London, writing both Italian and French operas....
– L'Olimpiade - Carl Heinrich GraunCarl Heinrich GraunCarl 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:...
– Montezuma (libretto by 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...
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Births
- March 2 – Antoine-Frédéric GresnickAntoine-Frédéric GresnickAntoine-Frédéric Gresnick was a Belgian classical composer. He was born in Liège. He studied music in Naples. By 1780 Gresnick was working in Lyons and, after visiting Berlin and London, he moved in 1794 to Paris where he died in 1799...
, opera composer (died 1799) - May 12 – Giovanni Battista ViottiGiovanni Battista ViottiGiovanni Battista Viotti was an Italian violinist whose virtuosity was famed and whose work as a composer featured a prominent violin and an appealing lyrical tunefulness...
(died 1824) - June 18 – Louise-Rosalie LefebvreLouise-Rosalie LefebvreLouise-Rosalie Lefebvre , also known as Madame Dugazon, was a French operatic mezzo-soprano, actress and dancer....
, operatic mezzo-soprano, actress and dancer (died 1821) - November 10 – Franz Anton RiesFranz Anton RiesFranz Anton Xaverius Ries was a German violinist. His father Johann Ries was court trumpeter to the Elector of Cologne in Bonn....
, violinist (died 1846) - date unknown
- John Christopher MollerJohn Christopher MollerJohn Christopher Moller was one of the first American composers, as well as one of the first music publishers in the United States.John Christopher Moller was also an organist, concert manager, pianist, harpsichordist, and violinist...
, early American composer (died 1803) - Caroline MüllerCaroline Müller (mezzo-soprano)Caroline Frederikke Müller , also known as Caroline Walther, was a Danish and later naturalized Swedish singer , dancer and actor and principal of the theatre academy Dramatens elevskola...
, operatic mezzo-soprano, actress and dancer (died 1826) - Maria Theresia AhlefeldtMaria Theresia AhlefeldtMaria Theresia Ahlefeldt was a member of the House of Thurn and Taxis and a Princess of Thurn and Taxis...
, composer (died 1810) - Agnieszka TruskolaskaAgnieszka TruskolaskaAgnieszka Marianna Truskolaska , was a Polish actress, opera singer and theatre director. She was one of the most admired female artists of her time in Poland....
, opera singer (died 1831)
- John Christopher Moller
Deaths
- January 11 – Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace RoyerJoseph-Nicolas-Pancrace RoyerJoseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer was a French composer and harpsichordist.Born in Turin, Royer went to Paris in 1725, and in 1734 became maître de musique des enfants de France, responsible for the musical education of the children of the king, Louis XV...
, harpsichordist and composer (born c.1705) - April – Anastasia RobinsonAnastasia RobinsonAnastasia Robinson was an English soprano, later contralto, of the Baroque era. She is best remembered for her association with the composer George Frideric Handel, in whose operas she sang.-Early life and initial career:...
, operatic soprano (born c. 1692) - August 13 – Francesco DuranteFrancesco DuranteFrancesco Durante was an Italian composer.He was born at Frattamaggiore, in the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, and at an early age he entered the Conservatorio dei poveri di Gesù Cristo, in Naples, where he received lessons from Gaetano Greco. Later he became a pupil of Alessandro Scarlatti at the...
, composer (born 1684) - October 28 – Joseph Bodin de BoismortierJoseph Bodin de BoismortierJoseph Bodin de Boismortier was a French baroque composer of instrumental music, cantatas, opéra-ballets, and vocal music...
(born 1689) - November 25 – Johann Georg PisendelJohann Georg PisendelJohann Georg Pisendel was a German Baroque musician, violinist and composer who, for many years, led the Court Orchestra in Dresden, then the finest instrumental ensemble in Europe.-Biography:...
, composer (born 1687) - December 1 – Maurice GreeneMaurice Greene (composer)Maurice Greene was an English composer and organist.- Biography :Born in London, the son of a clergyman, Greene became a choirboy at St Paul's Cathedral under Jeremiah Clarke and Charles King...
, organist and composer (born 1696) - December 8 – Jean-Baptiste StuckJean-Baptiste StuckJean-Baptiste Stuck or "Batistin" was an Italian-French composer and cellist of the Baroque.Little is known of Stuck's early years. He was born at Livorno, came from a merchant family, and was the son of Giovanni-Giacomo Stuck and Barbera Hellerbeck. From 1702 he was in the service of Countess...
, cellist and composer (born 1680) - date unknown
- John Clerk of PenicuikJohn Clerk of PenicuikSir John Clerk of Pennycuik, 2nd Baronet was a Scottish politician, lawyer, judge, composer and architect.He was Vice-President of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, the pre-eminent learned society of the Scottish Enlightenment.-Early life:...
, composer - Manuel de ZumayaManuel de ZumayaManuel de Zumaya or Manuel de Sumaya was perhaps the most famous Mexican composer of the colonial period of New Spain. His music was the culmination of the Baroque style in the New World; of Spanish, French, Dutch, British, and Portuguese colonial composers, none stand out as much as Zumaya did...
, Mexican composer (born c.1678)
- John Clerk of Penicuik