1747 in music

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Contents 1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Johann Sebastian Bach is presented to King Frederick II of Prussia in Berlin; the king plays a theme for Bach and challenges the musician to improvise a six-part fugue based on it.
• Luigi Boccherini goes to Rome to study the cello.

[edit] Classical music

• Maria Teresa Agnesi - Il restauro d'Arcadia (cantata)
• Antoine Forqueray - Pièces de viole mises en pièces de clavecin (posthumously published)
• George Frideric Handel - Judas Maccabeus (oratorio)
• Jean-Philippe Rameau - La Dauphine (harpsichord piece).

[edit] Births

• date unknown - François Tourte, maker of violin bows (died 1835)

[edit] Deaths

• June 19 - Alessandro Marcello, composer (born 1669)
• July 9 - Giovanni Bononcini, composer (born 1670)