1746 in music

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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
• 1746–1747 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. ^[1]
• 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) ^[2]
• Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer – Pièces de clavecin
• Rudolf Straube – 2 Lute Sonatas
• Giuseppe Tartini – 3 Violin Concertos, Libro 1

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

1. Verheyden, Prosper (1922). "The Carillon Repertory of Joannes de Gruytters (Antwerp 1746)" (PDF). The Bulletin. The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America (published 1949). 4 (1): 13. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
2. "Harpsichord Sonata in C minor, IP 109 (Platti, Giovanni Benedetto) - IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library: Free Public Domain Sheet Music". imslp.org. Retrieved 2019-04-03.