1741 in music

none thumb | 220x124px | right | alt= A color photo of a light stone monument in a city. Three figures are playing instruments: cellos, and violin. | A monument to Vivaldi in Vienna, Austria 1741 music Events August 22–September 14 – George Frideric Handel composes his oratorio Messiah in London to a libretto compiled by Charles Jennens,Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 308–309 completing the "Hallelujah Chorus" on September 6.British Library (London) MS RM.20.f.2, f106. October 2 – The Bull's Head Musical Society opens a Music Hall in Fishamble Street, Dublin, Ireland.The Liffey in Dublin 0-7171-2423-1 468 de Courcy J.W. 1996 Dublin Gill & Macmillan November 18 – George Frideric Handel arrives in Dublin to give a series of concertsDonald Burrows Donald Burrows (musicologist) Handel, George Frideric (1685–1759) 2004 Online (October 2007) http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12192 2013-02-26 10.1093/ref:odnb/12192 having tried out the Messiah privately en route in Chester. November 25 – Marguerite-Antoinette Couperin, the first female court musician at the French court, sells her official post to Bernard de Bury. Johann Friedrich Agricola arrives in Berlin to study musical composition under Johann Joachim Quantz. Antonio Vivaldi leaves Venice for Vienna, but dies shortly after his arrival. 19-year-old Jiří Antonín Benda is given the post of second violinist at the Berlin court of King Frederick II of Prussia. William Hogarth produces an engraving entitled The Enraged Musician. Classical music Girolamo Abos – Magnificat à quarto concertato con strum. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Harpsichord Concerto in A major, H.411 Symphony in G major, H.648 Johann Sebastian Bach – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 Joseph Bodin de Boismortier – 6 Flute Sonatas, Op. 91 Michel Corrette – Nouveau Livre de noëls Jean-Baptiste Dupuits – 6 Sonatas for Vielle and Harpsichord, Op. 3 Willem de Fesch – 8 Concertos in 7 Parts, Op. 10 Baldassare Galuppi – Confitebor tibi Domine in C major, B.II.2 Christoph Graupner Trio Sonata in E major, GWV 208 Flute Sonata in G major, GWV 708 George Frideric Handel Messiah composed. Quel fior che all'alba ride, HWV 192 (duet) Overture in D major, HWV 424 Johann Adolph Hasse – 12 Flute Concertos, Op. 3 Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg – Pièces de Clavecin Jean-Philippe Rameau – Pieces de Clavecin en Concerts Georg Philipp Telemann – 24 Odes, TWV 25:86-109 Opera Tomaso Albinoni – Artamene Andrea Bernasconi – Demofoonte Baldassare Galuppi – Penelope Christoph Willibald Gluck – Artaserse Karl Heinrich Graun – Rodelinda regina de' Longobardi, GraunWV B:I:6 George Frideric Handel – Deidamia, HWV 42 (composed 1740) Johann Adolph Hasse – Numa Pompilio Niccolò Jommelli – Semiramide riconosciuta Giovanni Battista Lampugnani – Arsace Publications Johann Sebastian Bach – Clavier-Übung IV (Nuremberg: Balthasar Schmid), now known as the Goldberg Variations. The Cocquiel Manuscript, B-Br Ms II 3326 Mus, containing sacred music by various composers (including Jacob La Fosse and Abraham van den Kerckhoven) Methods and theory writings Michel Corrette – Méthode pour apprendre le violoncelle, Op. 24 Antoine Terrasson – Historique sur la vielle Carlo Tessarini – Gramatica di musica Births February 8 – André Grétry, composer (died 1813) February 9 Joseph Corfe (died 1820) Henri-Joseph Rigel, composer (died 1799) April 17 – Johann Gottlieb Naumann (died 1801) May 23 – Andrea Luchesi, composer (died 1801) July 17 – Suzette Defoye, opera singer and ballerina July 27 – François-Hippolyte Barthélémon, violinist and composer (died 1808) August 31 – Jean-Paul-Égide Martini, composer (died 1816) September 11 – Johann Jakob Engel (died 1802) September 25 – Václav Pichl, singer, violinist and composer (died 1805) November 27 – Jean-Pierre Duport (died 1818) date unknown Franz Xaver Hammer, gambist, cellist and composer (died 1817) Giacomo Rust (died 1786) Anna Brita Wendelius, singer and member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music (died 1804). Deaths January 5 – Ann Turner Robinson, English soprano February 13 – Johann Fux, composer and theorist (born 1660) March 17 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (born 1671) June 21 – Joseph-Hector Fiocco, Flemish violinist and composer (born 1703) July 28 – Antonio Vivaldi, composer (born 1678) August – David Owen, Welsh harpist (born 1712) August 24 – Gabriel-Vincent Thévenard, French operatic baritone (born 1669) September 3 (or after) – Carlo Francesco Cesarini (born 1666) September 7 – Henri Desmarets, French composer of sacred music (born 1661) probable – Francesco Scarlatti, composer (born 1666) References Category:18th century in music Category:Music by year