1745 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

  • April 16 Johann Sebastian Bach revives the anonymous St Luke Passion BWV 246 (BC D 6a) with an additional chorale by Bach himself at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
  • Thomas Arne enlarges the orchestra at Vauxhall Gardens, taking on John Hebden as principal cellist and bassoonist.
  • Giovanni Battista Pescetti returns to Venice and becomes Second Organist at St Mark's Basilica.
  • After 1745 Bach performs the Passion cantata pastiche Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt (BC D 10).

Classical music

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    • Menuet con 5 Variazioni, Wq, 118, H.44
    • Harpsichord Concerto in E minor, H.418
    • Harpsichord Concerto in D minor, H.420
    • Harpsichord Concerto in D major, H.421
    • Trio Sonata in C major, H.573
  • Johann Sebastian Bach – Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191
  • Wilhelm Friedemann Bach – Keyboard Sonata in D major, F.3
  • Johann Ernst Eberlin – 9 Toccatas and Fugues (for organ), published in Augsburg, 1747, as IX toccate e fughe
  • George Frideric Handel – Hercules, HWV 60 (oratorio)
  • Johann Melchior Molter – Clarinet Concerto in G major, MWV 6.40
  • Johann Joachim Quantz – Flute Concerto in G major, QV 5:174
  • John Stanley – 10 Voluntaries (for organ), published in 1748 as Op. 5
  • Georg Philipp Telemann – Johannes Passion, TWV 5:30
  • Tomaso Antonio Vitali – Chaconne in G minor

Opera

  • Ferdinando Bertoni – La vedova accorta
  • François Francœur and François Rebel
    • Le Trophée
    • Zélindor, roi des Sylphes
  • George Frideric Handel – Comus (based on the masque by John Milton)
  • Gennaro Manna – Lucio Vero
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau
    • Les Fêtes de Polymnie, RCT 39
    • Platée, RCT 53
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Les Muses galantes
  • Georg Christoph Wagenseil – Ariodante
  • Stand Round my Brave Boys by George Frideric Handel

Publications

  • Louis-Antoine Dornel – Le tour du clavier sur tous les tons
  • John Stanley – Six Solo's [sic] for flute or violin and harpsichord, Op. 4 (London)
  • Giuseppe Tartini – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 2 (Rome: Antonius Cleton)

Methods and theory writings

  • Bartolomé Ferriol – Reglas utiles para los aficionados a danzar
  • Georg Andreas Sorge – Vorgemach der musicalischen Composition

Births

  • January 17 – Nicolas Roze, music collector and composer (died 1819)
  • January 18 – Caterino Mazzolà, librettist and poet (died 1806)
  • February – Johann Peter Salomon, violinist, conductor and composer (died 1815)
  • March 4 – Charles Dibdin, British composer (died 1814)
  • April 7 – Jiří Družecký, Czech composer (died 1819)
  • May 7 – Carl Stamitz, composer (died 1801)
  • July 15 – Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Benda, composer and musician (died 1814)
  • August 19 – Johann Ignaz Ludwig Fischer, operatic bass (died 1825)
  • November 9 – Johann Michael Bach, musician and theorist (died 1820)
  • December 9 – Maddalena Laura Sirmen, violinist, singer and composer (died 1818)
  • December 25 – Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the "Black Mozart" (died 1799)
  • date unknown – Sophia Baddeley, actress and singer (died 1786)

Deaths

  • January – Giovanni Lorenzo Gregori, collector and composer (born 1663)
  • February 18 – Nicola Fago, composer and music teacher (born 1677)
  • March 15 – Michel de la Barre, flautist and composer (born c.1675)
  • April 18 – Francesco Venturini, composer and musician (born 1675)
  • April 27 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, composer (born 1677)
  • May 9 – Tomaso Antonio Vitali, violinist and composer (born 1663)
  • June 25 – Johann Wilhelm Drese, composer (born 1677)
  • June 28 – Antoine Forqueray, viola da gamba player and composer (born 1672)
  • September 5 – Simon-Joseph Pellegrin, librettist and poet (born 1663)
  • October 18 – Jacques Autreau, librettist and painter (born 1657)
  • October 19 – Jonathan Swift, librettist and satirist (born 1667)
  • October 24 – Antonio Veracini, violinist and composer (born 1659)
  • November 5 – Françoise-Charlotte de Senneterre Ménétou, French composer (born 1679)
  • December 6 – Christoph Förster, German composer (born 1693)
  • December 23 – Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer (born 1679)
  • date unknown – Charles Coffey, dramatist and composer
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