1751 in music

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Contents

1 Events
2 Classical music
3 Opera
4 Births
5 Deaths

Events

1751 is the year commonly given as the beginning of the classical era
The "War of the Buffoons" (La Querelle des Bouffons), concerning the relative merits of French and Italian opera, divides Paris.
Francesco Geminiani publishes "The Art of Playing on the Violin" in London.

Classical music

Antoine Dauvergne – Concerts de Simphonies
Johann Sebastian Bach Kunst der Fuge with appendix of Chorale prelude BWV 668a (posthumously)
John Francis Wade O Come All Ye Faithful

Opera

Johann Adolf Hasse – Ciro Riconosciuto
Niccolò Jommelli – La villana nobile; Ifigenia in Aulide
Jean-Philippe Rameau – Acante et Céphise
Giuseppe Sarti – Pompeo in Armenia

Births

January 18 – Ferdinand Kauer, pianist and composer (died 1831)
March 5 – Jan Krtitel Kuchar, composer
March 29 – Supply Belcher, singer, composer and compiler of tune books (died 1836)
February 4 – Blas de Laserna, composer
February 9 – Antoine Bullant, bassoonist and composer (died 1821)

Deaths

January 17 – Tomaso Albinoni (born 1671)
February 18 – Giuseppe Matteo Alberti, composer (born 1685)
May 20 – Domènech Terradellas, composer (born 1713)
date unknown
- Pierre Dumage, organist (born c. 1674)
- Henry Reinhold, singer (born c. 1690)