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Events in Music


Music releaseMusic Premiere

Apr 15 Premiere in London of "Serse", an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel

Composer George Frideric Handel
Composer
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, composer
  • Jun 3 Johann Christoph Oley, composer
  • Jun 29 Constantin Reindl, German composer, born in Jettenhofen, Oberpfalz, Germany (d. 1799)
  • 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, composer, 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 Reuter, 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