1733 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1733.

Events

• July 2 - Johann Sebastian Bach performs a revised version of his Magnificat in D major, BWV 243, ending the mourning period for Augustus II the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland.
• July 10 - George Frideric Handel premieres his English-language oratorio Athalia at the University of Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre.
• Thomas Arne's first opera, Rosamund, is staged, with his sister, Susannah Maria, performing.
• First opera staged at the Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù, A. Aurelli’s Gerone, tiranno di Siracusa.
• Wilhelm Friedemann Bach is appointed organist of the Sophienkirche, Dresden.
• Approximate date of the William Dixon manuscript of music for the Border pipes.
• Jean-Marie Leclair becomes musical director to King Louis XV of France.
• Charles Theodore Pachelbel settles in Boston, Massachusetts.
• After 1733 - Johann Sebastian Bach makes the Leipzig premiere of the Passion cantata Ein lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld by Carl Heinrich Graun.

Publications

• Pietro Locatelli – L'arte del violino

Published popular music

• Orpheus caledonius: or, A collection of Scots songs – William Thomson

Classical music

• Johann Sebastian Bach – Mass for the Dresden court (Kyrie and Gloria), later part of the Mass in B minor
• Francesco Geminiani – Concerti grossi, Op. 3
• Pietro Locatelli – L'arte del violino
• Benedetto Marcello – Il pianto e il riso delle quattro stagioni (oratorio)

Opera

• Francisco António de Almeida – La pazienza di Socrate
• Thomas Arne – Rosamund
• George Frideric Handel – Orlando
• John Frederick Lampe – Dione
• Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – La serva padrona (intermezzo)
• Jean-Philippe Rameau – Hippolyte et Aricie

Births

• January 3 - Josina van Aerssen (died 1797)
• January 17 - Thomas Linley the elder (died 1795)
• October 28 – Franz Ignaz von Beecke (died 1803)
• October 29 – Gottfried van Swieten, collaborator of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven

Deaths

• February 26 – Johann Adam Birkenstock, violinist and composer (born 1687)
• May 18 – Georg Böhm, organist (born 1661)
• July 2 – Christian Petzold, organist and composer (born 1677)
• September 12 – François Couperin (born 1668)