1747 in music

Overview of the events of 1747 in music

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## Events

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* April 30 – Possible premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's last St Mark Passion pastiche (BC D 5) at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig. In addition to two movements by Bach, he incorporates seven arias from George Frideric Handel's Brockes Passion HWV 48 into the work.[dubious - discuss]
* October 4 – Schlosstheater Schönbrunn opens.
* Johann Sebastian Bach is presented to King Frederick II of Prussia in Potsdam; the king plays a theme for Bach and challenges the musician to improvise a six-part fugue based on it.
* Luigi Boccherini goes to Rome to study the cello.

## Classical music

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* Maria Teresa Agnesi – Il restauro d'Arcadia (cantata)
* Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Trio Sonata in F major, H.576
* Johann Sebastian Bach
* Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her, BWV 769
* Musikalisches Opfer, BWV 1079 (the Musical Offering)
* William Boyce – 12 Trio Sonatas
* Antoine Forqueray – Pièces de viole mises en pièces de clavecin (posthumously published)
* George Frideric Handel – Judas Maccabeus (oratorio)
* Jean-Marie Leclair – 6 Duos for 2 Violins, Op. 12
* Jean-Philippe Rameau – La Dauphine (harpsichord piece).
* Giuseppe Sammartini – 6 Concerti Grossi, Op. 5
* Giuseppe Tartini – L'arte del arco (first set of 17 variations on a theme from Corelli's Op. 5) (attribution to Tartini in question)

## Opera

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* Nicola Calandra – Lo Barone Landolfo
* Geronimo Cordella – La Faustina
* Johann Adolf Hasse
* Leucippo
* La spartana generosa
* Giuseppe de Majo – Arianna e Teseo
* Jean-Philippe Rameau – Les Fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour, RCT 38

## Births

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* February – Narciso Casanovas, Spanish composer (died 1799)
* March 29 – Johann Wilhelm Hässler, German organist and composer (died 1822)
* March 31 – Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, musician and composer (died 1800)
* June 24 – John O'Keeffe, Irish librettist (died 1833)
* June 26 – Leopold Kozeluch, prolific composer and teacher (died 1818)
* July 23 – Faustino Arévalo, hymnographer (died 1824)
* September 22 – Józef Wybicki, composer and poet (died 1822)
* October 26 – Giovanni Mane Giornovichi, violinist and composer (died 1804)
* November 24 – Felice Alessandri, Italian composer (died 1798)
* date unknown
* Narciso Casanovas, Spanish monk and composer
* Michael Ehregott Grose, Danish organist and composer (died 1795)
* François Tourte, maker of violin bows (died 1835)

## Deaths

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* January 2 – Jean-Féry Rebel, violinist and composer (born 1666)
* February 2 – Francisco Valls, church composer (born 1665)
* February 26 – Johann Nicolaus Mempel, musician (born 1713)
* May 26 – Robert Valentine – Baroque composer (born 1674)
* June 6 – Jean-Baptiste Barrière, cellist and composer (born 1707)
* June 19 – Alessandro Marcello, composer (born 1669)
* July 9 – Giovanni Bononcini, composer (born 1670)