1739 in music

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March 27 Johann Sebastian Bach performs the Brockes-Passion TWV 5: 1 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
September – Leopold Mozart is expelled from the Benedictine University of Salzburg for poor attendance.
1739–1749 Bach revises his St John Passion BWV 245 (BC D 2e)--version never performed during his lifetime (version we know today).
1739–1742 Bach starts revising some of his Weimar period Chorale preludes in a new manuscript (the so-called Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes BWV 651-668). Included at this period are BWV 651–663. The manuscript would also contain his Sonatas BWV 525-530 (1727-1732) and also his Canonic Variations on "Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her" BWV 769 (1747).

April 25 – Santiago de Murcia, guitarist and composer (born 1673)
May 9 – Carlo Ignazio Monza, composer (born c. 1680)
May 27 – Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, organist, son of Johann Sebastian Bach (born 1715)
July 24 – Benedetto Marcello, composer (born 1686)
September 12 – Reinhard Keiser, composer (born 1674)
date unknown – Antonio Bioni, opera composer (born 1698)
probable – Jean-Adam Guilain, organist and harpsichordist (born c. 1680)