1733 in music explained
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1733.
Events
- July 2 – Johann Sebastian Bach performs a revised version of his Magnificat in D major, BWV 243, ending the mourning period for Augustus II the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland.
- July 10 – George Frideric Handel premieres his English-language oratorio Athalia at the University of Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre.
- First opera staged at the Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù, Aurelio Aureli’s (librettist) Gerone, tiranno di Siracusa, probably the version with music by Johann Adolph Hasse, premiered in Naples in 1727.
- Wilhelm Friedemann Bach is appointed organist of the Sophienkirche, Dresden.
- Beginning date of the William Dixon manuscript of music for the Border pipes, the oldest known surviving manuscript of pipe music from the British Isles.
- Jean-Marie Leclair becomes musical director to King Louis XV of France.
- Charles Theodore Pachelbel settles in Boston, Massachusetts.
- After 1733 – Johann Sebastian Bach makes the Leipzig premiere of the Passion cantata Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld by Carl Heinrich Graun.
Publications
- Paolo Benedetto Bellinzani – Madrigali a due, a tre, quattro, e cinque voci, Op. 6
- Joseph Bodin de Boismortier – 6 Flute Sonatas, Op. 44
- Michel Corrette – 6 Concertos Comiques, Op. 8
- Pierre Dandrieu – Noëls, O filii, chansons de Saint-Jacques, Stabat mater, et carillons
- François Francœur – 12 Violin Sonatas
- Francesco Geminiani – Concerti grossi, Op. 3
- Georg Friedrich Kauffmann – Harmonische Seelenlust (first volumes, not completed until 1736)
- Pietro Locatelli – L'arte del violino: XII concerti, cioè violino solo, con XXIV capricci ad libitum, Op. 3 (Amsterdam: Le Cene)
- Georg Philipp Telemann
- Alexandre de Villeneuve
- Conversations en manière de sonates, solo sonatas, Op. 1 (Paris)
- Conversations en manière de sonates, trio sonatas, Op. 2 (Paris)
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