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thumb|right|Johann Sebastian Bach in 1746

Events

  • April 8 Johann Sebastian Bach performs a copy he made of the Brockes Passion HWV 48 of George Frideric Handel at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.
  • Elias Gottlob Haussmann completes his famous portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach
  • 1746&ndash;1747 Bach adds two Chorale preludes (BWV 664 and 665) to his manuscript of the Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes.

Classical music

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Harpsichord Concerto in A major, H.422
  • Harpsichord Concerto in C major, H.423
  • Viola da Gamba Sonata in D major, H.559
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Sechs Choräle von verschiedener Art
  • Canon in G major, BWV 1076
  • Francesco Feo – S. Francesco di Sales (sacred oratorio) first performed
  • Francesco Geminiani
  • 6 Cello Sonatas, Op. 5
  • 6 Concertos, Op.7
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck – 6 Trio Sonatas, Wq.53
  • Christoph Graupner – Ach Herr, mich armen Suender (cantata)
  • Joannes de Gruytters – his carillon book.
  • George Frideric Handel
  • Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62 with words by Newburgh Hamilton
  • Concerto in D major, HWV 335a (contributed to the Music for the Royal Fireworks)
  • Niccolò Pasquali – Sonatas for two cellos
  • Giovanni Benedetto Platti – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas, Op. 4 (parts of which have been attributed to Benedetto Marcello)
  • Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer – Pièces de clavecin
  • Rudolf Straube – 2 Lute Sonatas
  • Giuseppe Tartini – 3 Violin Concertos, Libro 1
  • From Scourging Rebellion by George Frideric Handel

Opera

  • Andrea Adolfati – La pace fra la virtù e la bellezza
  • Thomas Arne – Neptune and Amphitrite
  • Matteo Capranica – Alcibiade
  • Carl Heinrich Graun – Demofoonte, GraunWV B:I:13
  • Niccolò Jommelli – Didone abbandonata
  • Jean-Marie Leclair – Scylla et Glaucus

Publications

  • Burke Thumoth – 12 English and 12 Irish Airs with Variations (London: J. Simpson)
  • Anonymous – The Compleat Tutor for the French Horn (London: John Simpson)

Methods and theory writings

  • William Tans'ur – A New Musical Grammar

Births

  • January 11 – František Adam Míča, Czech composer (died 1811)
  • January 23 – Pierre-Ulric Dubuisson, translator and actor (died 1794)
  • February 13 – Giuseppe Maria Cambini, Italian composer (died 1825)
  • April 4 – Alexandre-Louis Robineau, librettist (died 1823)
  • June 2– Wilhelm Cramer, composer and violinist (died 1799)
  • June 3 (probable) – James Hook (composer), composer (died 1827)
  • June 29 – Joachim Heinrich Campe, German librettist (died 1818)
  • July 2 – Hartenack Otto Conrad Zinck, Danish composer (died 1832)
  • August 21 – Ignaz Umlauf, Austrian composer (died 1796)
  • September 3 – Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter, librettist and poet (died 1797)
  • September 20 – Christian Benjamin Uber, German composer (died 1812)
  • September 26 – Giovanni Punto, composer and horn player (died 1803)
  • October 4 – Domenico Corri, Italian composer (died 1825)
  • October 7 – William Billings, American composer (died 1800)
  • October 12 – Emerico Lobo de Mesquita, composer and collaborator (died 1805)
  • October 22 – Hector Macneill, librettist and poet (died 1818)
  • November 15 – Joseph Quesnel, composer (died 1809)
  • December 19 – Venanzio Rauzzini, collector and opera singer (died 1810)
  • December 21 – Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty, librettist and poet (died 1776)
  • unknown date - Avdotya Mikhaylova, opera singer (died 1807)

Deaths

  • March 16 – Jean Baptiste Matho, French composer (born 1663)
  • March 30 – Jean-Joseph Fiocco, composer (b. 1686)
  • May 15 – Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, composer
  • August 27 – Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, German composer
  • October 14 – Domenico Alberti, Italian composer (born c. 1700)
  • December 6 – Grizel Baillie, librettist and composer (born 1665)
  • December 10 – Teodorico Pedrini, priest, musician and composer (b. 1671)
  • unknown date – Jean-Baptiste Malter, dancer (b. 1701)

References