1741 in music

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Events

November 25 – Marguerite-Antoinette Couperin, the first female court musician at the French court, sells her official post to Bernard de Bury.
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.
19-year-old Jiří Antonín Benda is given the post of second violinist at the Berlin court of King Frederick II of Prussia.
William Hogarth produces an engraving entitled The Enraged Musician.

February 8 – André Grétry, composer (died 1813)
February 9 – Henri-Joseph Rigel, composer (died 1799)
May 23 – Andrea Luchesi, composer (died 1801)
July 17 – Suzette Defoye, opera singer and ballerina
July 27 – François-Hippolyte Barthélémon, violinist and composer (died 1808)
August 31 – Jean Paul Egide Martini, composer (died 1816)
September 25 – Wenzel Pichl, singer, violinist and composer (died 1805)
date unknown
- Franz Xaver Hammer, gambist, cellist and composer (died 1817)
- Anna Brita Wendelius, singer and member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music (died 1804).