Events in Music
Music Premiere
Mar 23 George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London
George Frideric Handel
Birthdays in Music
- Jan 20 Pascal Boyer, composer
- Feb 19 [Ridolfo] Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer, cellist (Minuet)
- Mar 8 Bendix Friedrich Zinck, German composer, born in Husum, Holstein, Germany (d. 1801)
- Jun 20 Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet and writer of hymns (Life! I Know Not What Thou Art), born in Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire, England (d. 1825)
- Jun 30 Niels Schiørring, Danish musician and composer, born in Favrskov Municipality, Denmark (d. 1798)
- Sep 30 Jeronymo Francisco de Lima, composer
- Oct 5 Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Italian composer, born in Verona, Italy (d. 1818)
- Dec 6 Franz Nikolaus Novotny, Austrian composer, born in Eisenstadt, Austria (d. 1773)
Deaths in Music
- Feb 1 Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer, dies at 85
- Feb 7 Lodovico Giustini, Italian composer, dies at 57
- Mar 9 Jean-Baptiste Lully fils, French musician and son of Jean-Baptiste Lully, dies at 77
- Sep 14 Johann Michael Muller, composer, dies at 59
- Nov 5 Andreas Benedikt Praelisauer, composer, dies at 44