1733 in music

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Contents 1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Susannah Maria Arne makes her stage début in the first opera written by her brother, Thomas.
• Wilhelm Friedemann Bach is appointed organist of St Sophia's Church, Dresden.
• Jean-Marie Leclair becomes musical director to King Louis XV of France.

[edit] Published popular music

• Orpheus caledonius: or, A collection of Scots songs - William Thomson

[edit] Classical music

• Mass in B minor (short version) - Johann Sebastian Bach
• Concerti grossi, Op. 3 - Francesco Geminiani
• Arte del violino - Pietro Locatelli
• Il pianto e il riso delle quattro stagioni (oratorio) - Benedetto Marcello

[edit] Opera

• Thomas Arne - Rosamund
• George Frideric Handel - Orlando
• John Frederick Lampe - Dione
• Jean-Philippe Rameau - Hippolyte et Aricie

[edit] Births

• January 17 -Thomas Linley (died 1795)
• October 28 - Franz Ignaz von Beecke (died 1803)

[edit] Deaths

• May 18 - Georg Böhm, organist (born 1661)
• September 12 - François Couperin (born 1668)
• date unknown - Christian Petzold, organist and composer (born 1677)