1746 in music

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

[edit] Events

• Elias Gottlieb Haussmann completes his famous portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach

[edit] Classical music

• Occasional Oratorio by George Frideric Handel, with words by Newburgh Hamilton

[edit] Opera

• Thomas Arne - Neptune and Amphitrite
• Jean-Marie Leclair - Scylla et Glaucus

[edit] Births

• June 3 (probable) - James Hook (composer), composer (died 1827)
• November 15 - Joseph Quesnel, composer (died 1809)

[edit] Deaths

• May 15 - Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, composer
• unknown date - Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, composer