1741 in music

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A monument to Vivaldi in Vienna, Austria
List of years in music (table)
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Events

  • August 22–September 14 – George Frideric Handel composes his oratorio Messiah in London to a libretto compiled by Charles Jennens,[1] completing the "Hallelujah Chorus" on September 6.[2]
  • October 2 – The Bull's Head Musical Society opens a Music Hall in Fishamble Street, Dublin, Ireland.[3]
  • November 18 – George Frideric Handel arrives in Dublin to give a series of concerts[4] 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 – Wenzel 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

  1. ↑ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 308–309. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  2. ↑ British Library (London) MS RM.20.f.2, f106.
  3. ↑ de Courcy, J.W. (1996). The Liffey in Dublin. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. p. 468. ISBN 0-7171-2423-1.
  4. ↑ Burrows, Donald (2004). "Handel, George Frideric (1685–1759)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online (October 2007) ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12192. Retrieved 2013-02-26. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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