1755 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

  • In Britain, William Boyce is appointed Master of the King's Musick.[1]
  • 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.
  • 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 Sonatas (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 [sic] 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)[2]
  • 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

  1. ↑ Bartlett, Ian (2011). William Boyce: A Tercentenary Sourcebook and Compendium. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 116, 117. ISBN 978-1-4438-2721-8.
  2. ↑ Swain, Joseph P. (2016). Historical Dictionary of Sacred Music. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 80. ISBN 9781442264632.
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