1749 in music

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Contents 1 Events 2 Popular Music 3 Classical Music 4 Opera 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• None listed

[edit] Popular Music

• "Soldiers of Christ, Arise" (hymn) by Charles Wesley

[edit] Classical Music

• Solomon by George Frideric Handel

[edit] Opera

• Baldassare Galuppi - L'Arcadia in Brenta, first opera buffa
• Jean-Joseph de Mondonville - Le carnaval du Parnasse
• José Nebra - El mágico Apolonio

[edit] Births

• June 15 - Georg Joseph Vogler, (known as Abbé Vogler) German composer, teacher and theorist (died 1814)
• December 17 - Domenico Cimarosa (died 1801)

[edit] Deaths

• June 11 - Johann Bernhard Bach, organist and composer, second cousin of Johann Sebastian Bach (born 1676)
• unknown date - Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, composer (born 1676)
• unknown date - André-Cardinal Destouches, French composer of opera (born 1672)