1755 in music

none thumb | right 1755 music Events In Britain, William Boyce is appointed Master of the King's Musick.William Boyce: A Tercentenary Sourcebook and Compendium Bartlett Ian Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2011 978-1-4438-2721-8 116, 117 After a tour of Ireland fraught with disagreements, Thomas Arne and his wife, the soprano Cecilia Young, agree to separate. Ferdinando Bertoni becomes choirmaster at the Ospedale dei Mendicanti in Venice. Published popular music James Oswald – [48] Airs for the Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter, for violin or flute and basso continuo (London) Mme Papavoine – Nous voici donc au jour de l'an. Étrennes (Paris) Classical music Charles Avison – Eight Concertos, Op. 4 (London) Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Harpsichord Concerto in F major, H.443 Wq. 33 Keyboard Concerto in G major, H.444 Wq. 34 Flute Concerto in G major, H.445 Wq. 169 Trio Sonata in B-flat major, H.587 Wq. 159 Symphony in D major, H.651 Wq. 176 Gaspard Fritz – 6 Violin SonatasApril 2019 (published in Paris as Sei sonate, Op. 3, in 1756) Francesco Geminiani – Six Concertos, Op. 2, second edition, corrected and enlarged, with some new movements, by the author, and now published in score (London: John Johnson); originally published 1732 Carl Heinrich Graun – Der Tod Jesu Leopold Mozart – Divertimento in F major "Musical Sleigh Ride" John Christopher Smith – Six Suits of Lessons for the Harpsichord, Op. 3 (London: John Walsh) Georg Philipp Telemann – Der Tod Jesu TWV 5:6 Opera Johann Friedrich Agricola – Il tempio d'amore Pierre Montan Berton – Deucalion et Pyrrha Egidio Duni – L'Olimpiade Baldassare Galuppi La diavolessa Le nozze di Dorina (premiered Nov. in Venice) Carl Heinrich Graun – Montezuma (libretto by King Frederick the Great, composed 1754 first performed Jan. 6, 1755) Johann Adolph Hasse – Ezio (Final version premiered Jan. 20 in Dresden) Niccolò Jommelli – Pelope Antonio Mazzoni – Antigono (Was not performed because of the Lisbon Earthquake, premiered in 2011) John Christopher Smith – The Fairies Methods and theory writings Touissant Bordet – Méthode raisonnée pour apprendre la musique Marianus Königsperger – Der wohl-unterwiesene Clavier-Schüler Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg – Anleitung zum Clavierspielen Christoph Nichelmann – Die Melodie Johann Joachim Quantz – Autobiography Jean-Philippe Rameau – Erreurs sur la musique dans l'Encyclopédie Georg Andreas Sorge – Ausweichungs-Tabellen Births January 16 – Maria Theresia Ahlefeldt, composer (died 1810) February 5 – Caroline Müller, operatic mezzo-soprano, actress and dancer (died 1826) March 2 – Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick, opera composer (died 1799) April 16 – Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, copyist and painter (died 1842) May 12 – Giovanni Battista Viotti (died 1824) June 1 – Federigo Fiorillo, arranger and composer (died 1823) June 18 – Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre, operatic mezzo-soprano, actress and dancer (died 1821) August 1 – Antonio Capuzzi, composer and violinist (died 1818) November 8 – Edmond de Favières, French librettist (died 1837) November 10 – Franz Anton Ries, violinist (died 1846) November 30 – Agnieszka Truskolaska, opera singer (died 1831) date unknown – John Christopher Moller, early American composer (died 1803) Deaths January 11 – Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, harpsichordist and composer (born c.1705) January 15 – Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaja, Italian composer (born 1671) January 19 – Jean-Pierre Christin, scientist and musician (born 1683) April – Anastasia Robinson, operatic soprano (born c.1692) April 30 – Jean-Baptiste Oudry, composer and painter (born 1686) June 21 – Giovanni Porta, opera composer (born c.1675) July 4 – John Cennick, hymn-writer (born 1718) July 6 – Pietro Paolo Bencini, Italian composer and Kapellmeister (born c.1670) July 9 – Gottlob Harrer, German composer and choir leader (born 1703) September 30 – Francesco Durante, composer (born 1684)Swain Joseph P. Historical Dictionary of Sacred Music 2016 Rowman & Littlefield 9781442264632 80 https://books.google.com/books?id=Ad7dDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA80 en October 4 – Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet, of Penycuik, composer (born 1676) October 28 – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (born 1689) November 25 – Johann Georg Pisendel, composer (born 1687) December 1 – Maurice Greene, organist and composer (born 1696) December 8 – Jean-Baptiste Stuck, cellist and composer (born 1680) date unknown José Elías, composer and organist (born c. 1678) Alexander Gordon, antiquary and singer (born c.1692) Manuel de Zumaya, Mexican composer (born c.1678) References Category:18th century in music Category:Music by year