1750 in music explained

Events

• May 1  - George Frideric Handel begins the tradition of benefit performances of his oratorio Messiah at and for the Foundling Hospital in London.
• Farinelli is knighted by King Ferdinand VI of Spain.
• Ten-year-old Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf begins playing with the Viennese Schottenkirche orchestra.
• Bach dictates Chorale preludes BWV 666 and 667 to pupil and son-in-law Johann Christoph Altnikol. These are then added to the manuscript of the Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes (BWV 668 is added posthumously).

Classical music

• 1750 is commonly used to mark the end of the Baroque period
  • • CPE Bach Cello Concerto in A minor, H.432
  • Harpsichord Concerto in D major, H.433
• Nicolas Chedeville – Les impromptus de Fontainebleau, Op.12
• Francesco Durante – Litania della Beata Maria Vergine in fa minore, a 4 voci
• George Frederic Handel – Theodora, HWV 68 (Oratorio, premiered Mar. 16 in London)
• Niccolo Jommelli – Laudate pueri Dominum
• Leopold Mozart – Partita for Violin, Cello and Double Bass ("Frog")
• Niccolò Pasquali – XII English songs in score. Collected from several masques and other entertainments... (London)
• Approximate date
  • Willem de Fesch – 6 Cello Sonatas, Op.13
  • Joseph Haydn – Divertimento in A major, Hob.XVI:5
    • • • Franz Xaver Richter Symphony in D major, VB 52
    • Symphony in B-flat major, VB 59
  • Filippo Rosa – Recorder Sonata in F major^[1]

Opera

• Johann Friedrich Agricola  - Il filosofo convinto in amore
• William Boyce – The Roman Father
• Baldassare Galuppi – Il mondo alla roversa, premiered Nov. 14 in Venice
• Johann Adolf Hasse – Attilio Regolo, premiered Jan. 12 in Dresden.
• Niccolo Jommelli – L’uccellatrice

Births

• January 25  - Johann Gottfried Vierling, German organist and composer (died 1813)
• March 23  - Johannes Matthias Sperger, Austrian contrabassist and composer (died 1812)
• August 18  - Antonio Salieri, Italian-born composer (died 1825)
• November  - Anton Stamitz, German composer (died c.1805)
  • • December 3 Johann Martin Miller, hymnist and lyricist (died 1814)
  • Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer and pianist (died 1817)
• date unknown
  • Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières, librettist (died 1817)
  • Mikhail Matinsky, Russian mathematician, librettist and opera composer (died c. 1820)
  • Jean Balthasar Tricklir, cellist and composer (died 1813)
• probable  - Antonio Rosetti, born Franz Anton Rösler, Bohemian-born composer (died 1792)

Deaths

• January 4  - Christoph Schütz, German music publisher (born 1689)
• January 29  - Sophia Schröder, Swedish soprano at the Kungliga Hovkapellet (born 1712)
• February 22  - Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, Italian organist, choirmaster and composer (born 1679)
• March 6  - Domenico Montagnana, Italian luthier (born 1686)
• June 2  - Valentin Rathgeber, German composer (born 1682)^[2]
• June 14 – Franz Anton Maichelbeck, composer (born 1702)
• July 28  - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (born 1685)^[3]
• August  - John Tufts, American music teacher (born 1689)
• September 4 – José de Cañizares, librettist (born 1676)
• September 15  - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German-born organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1690)
• September 28 – Johann Sigismund Scholze, music anthologist (born 1705)
• October 3  - Georg Matthias Monn, Austrian composer (born 1717)
• October 16  - Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German lutenist and composer (born 1687)
• November  - Giuseppe Sammartini, Italian-born oboist and composer (born 1695)
• November 11 – Apostolo Zeno, librettist (born 1668)
• November 15  - Pantaleon Hebenstreit, German dance teacher, musician, composer and inventor of the pantalon (born 1668)^[4]
• November 25 – Francesco Feroci, composer (born 1673)
• date unknown  - Francesco Goffriller, Italian violin maker (born 1692)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Recorder Sonata in F major (Rosa, Filippo) - IMSLP: Free Sheet Music PDF Download . 2022-04-04 . imslp.org.
2. Ludger Stühlmeyer: Johann Valentin Rathgeber. Kantor, Komponist und Benediktiner. In: Jahrbuch des Erzbistums Bamberg, 91. Jahrgang 2016. Heinrichs-Verlag Bamberg, Juni 2015, .
3. Book: David. Hans T..

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   . Mendel. Arthur. Arthur Mendel. Wolff. Christoph. Christoph Wolff. 1998. The New Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents. W. W. Norton. New York. 978-0-393-31956-9. 37801400. 188.
4. Book: Robert Eitner.

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   . https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Hebenstreit,_Pantaleon. Hebenstreit: Pantaleon H., besonders bekannt durch das von ihm erfundene Schlaginstrument, "Pantaleon" genannt, welches er auch selbst spielte, war geb..... Hebenstreit, Pantaleon . Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie . 11. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig & Wikisource. 1880. 7 September 2015. 196–197.