Events in Music
Music Premiere
Apr 15 Premiere in London of "Serse", an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel
Birthdays in Music
- Apr 17 Philip Hayes, English composer, born in Oxford (d. 1797)
- May 4 Josef Kohaut, Czech composer, born in Žatec, Czech Republic (d. 1777)
- May 27 Bonaventura Furlanetto, Italian composer, born in Venice (d. 1817)
- Jun 3 Johann Christoph Oley, German composer, baptized in Bernburg, Saxony-Anhalt (d. 1789)
- Jun 29 Constantin Reindl, German composer, born in Jettenhofen, Oberpfalz, Germany (d. 1799)
- Sep 20 Václav Norbert Brixi, Czech organist, composer and priest (aka s Jeroným), born in Manětín, Bohemia (d. 1803)
- Oct 14 Giovanni Zanotti, Italian composer, born in Bologna (d. 1817)
- Dec 14 Jan Antonín Koželuh, Czech composer, born in Velvary, Czech Republic (d. 1814)
- Dec 28 Thaddaus Ferdinand Lipowsky, composer
Deaths in Music
- Jan 6 Franz Xaver Murschhauser, German composer and theorist, dies at 74
- Jan 17 Jean-Francois Dandrieu, composer, dies
- Feb 5 Georg Reidel, German composer, dies at 61
- Feb 12 James Sherard, English amateur composer, dies at 71
- Mar 25 Turlough O'Carolan, Irish harper and composer (b. 1670)
- Jul 15 Antonio Maria Pacchioni, Baroque composer, dies at 84
- Aug 29 Georg Reutter, Austrian composer and organist, dies at 81
- Dec 13 Gotthard Wagner, German composer, dies at 59
- Dec 22 Jean-Joseph Mouret, French composer, dies at 56