1741 in music

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

[edit] Events

• Johann Friedrich Agricola arrives in Berlin to study musical composition under Johann Joachim Quantz.
• Antonio Vivaldi leaves Venice for Vienna, but dies shortly after his arrival.

[edit] Classical music

• Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach
• The Messiah composed by George Frideric Handel

[edit] Opera

• Christoph Willibald Gluck - Artaserse
• Giovanni Battista Lampugnani - Arsace

[edit] Births

• February 8 - André Grétry, composer (died 1813)
• May 9 - Giovanni Paisiello, composer (died 1816)
• May 23 - Andrea Luchesi, composer (died 1801)
• Anton Zimmermann, composer

[edit] Deaths

• February 13 - Johann Fux, composer and theorist (born 1660)
• July 28 - Antonio Vivaldi, composer (born 1678)
• date unknown - Joseph-Hector Fiocco, violinist and composer