1746 in music
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Events
- April 8 Johann Sebastian Bach performs a copy he made of the Brockes Passion HWV 48 of George Frideric Handel at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.
- Elias Gottlieb Haussmann completes his famous portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1746–1747 Bach adds two Chorale preludes (BWV 664 and 665) to his manuscript of the Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes.
Classical music
- Johann Sebastian Bach – Sechs Choräle von verschiedener Art
- George Frideric Handel – Occasional Oratorio, with words by Newburgh Hamilton
Opera
- Andrea Adolfati – La pace fra la virtù e la bellezza
- Thomas Arne – Neptune and Amphitrite
- Matteo Capranica – Alcibiade
- Jean-Marie Leclair – Scylla et Glaucus
Births
- June 3 (probable) – James Hook (composer), composer (died 1827)
- November 15 – Joseph Quesnel, composer (died 1809)
Deaths
- March 30 – Jean-Joseph Fiocco, composer (b. 1686)
- May 15 – Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, composer
- August 27 – Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, composer
- December 10 – Teodorico Pedrini, priest, musician and composer (b. 1671)
- unknown date – Jean-Baptiste Malter, dancer (b. 1701)
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