1738 in music
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Events
- Antonio Vivaldi conducts a festival to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Schouwburg theater.
- 4 May – Foundation of the Imperial Ballet School at Saint Petersburg, with Jean-Baptiste Landé as its principal.
Classical music
- Francesco Durante – Messa piccola di requiem in G
Opera
- Thomas Arne – Comus
- Antonio Bioni – Girita
- George Frideric Handel – Serse and Faramondo
- Giovanni Battista Pescetti – La Conquista del Vello D'Oro
- Francesco Maria Veracini – Rosalinda
Births
- May – Jonathan Battishill, composer (died 1801)
- August 14 – Leopold Hofmann, composer (died 1793)
- November 15 – William Herschel, astronomer and composer (died 1822)
- December 14 – Jan Antonín Koželuh, composer (died 1814)
- date unknown
- Carlo Besozzi, oboist and composer (died 1791)
- Thomas Ebdon, organist and composer (died 1811)
Deaths
- January 6 – Franz Xaver Murschhauser, German composer (born 1663)
- January 17 – Jean-François Dandrieu, harpsichordist, organist and composer (born c. 1682)
- March 25 – Turlough O'Carolan, harpist and composer (born 1670)
- July 20 – Tommaso Redi, composer (born c.1675)
- August 23 - Baron Anders von Düben, director of the Royal Swedish Orchestra (born 1673)[1]
- August 29 – Georg Reutter, organist and composer (born 1656)
- September 23 – Carlo Agostino Badia, opera composer (born 1672)
- December 22 – Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer (born 1681)
- date unknown - José de Torres, composer (born 1665)
References
- ↑ [Svensk uppslagsbok, Malmö 1931
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