Year 1743 in Music History

Events in Music

Mar 23 George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London

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)
Sep 30 Jeronymo Francisco de Lima, Portuguese composer (Dixit Dominus), born in Lisbon, Portugal (d. 1822)
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)

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
Nov 5 Andreas Benedikt Praelisauer, composer, dies at 44