Events in Music
- Mar 23 George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Musicians Born in 1743
- Jan 20 Pascal Boyer, French composer, born in Tarascon, Provence, France (d. 1794)
- Feb 19 (Ridolfo) Luigi Boccherini, Italian cellist and composer, who worked in the Spanish court, born in Lucca, Kingdom Of Italy (d. 1803)
- 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)
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Musicians Who Died in 1743
- 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
- Jun 25 Václav Matyáš Gurecký, Bohemian composer dies at 37
- Sep 14 Johann Michael Müller, German organist and composer, dies at 59
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