1747 in music
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[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] Opera
- Nicola Calandra - Lo Barone Landolfo
- Geronimo Cordella - La Faustina
[edit] Births
- March 31 - Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, musician and composer (died 1800)
- July 23 - Faustino Arévalo, hymnographer (died 1824)
- November 29 - Giovanni Mane Giornovichi, violinist and composer (died 1804)
- date unknown - François Tourte, maker of violin bows (died 1835)
[edit] Deaths
- January 2 - Jean-Féry Rebel, violinist and composer (born 1666)
- February 26 - Johann Nicolaus Mempel, musician (born 1713)
- June 6 - Jean-Baptiste Barrière, cellist and composer (born 1707)
- June 19 - Alessandro Marcello, composer (born 1669)
- July 9 - Giovanni Bononcini, composer (born 1670)
- date unknown - Francisco Valls, church composer (born 1665)
