1753 in music
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Events
- Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach publishes his treatise, Versuch, including instructions for improvisation.
Opera
- Maria Agnesi – Ciro in Armenia
- Antoine DauvergneAntoine DauvergneAntoine Dauvergne was a French composer and violinist. Dauvergne served as master of the Chambre du roi, director of the Concert Spirituel from 1762 to 1771, and director of the Opéra three times between 1769 and 1790...
– Les troqueursLes troqueursLes troqueurs is a comic opera in one act by the French composer Antoine Dauvergne, first performed at the Foire Saint-Laurent in Paris on 30 July 1753 and revived by the Opéra-Comique at the Hôtel de Bourgogne on 26 February 1762... - Jean-Philippe RameauJean-Philippe RameauJean-Philippe Rameau was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque era. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading French composer for the harpsichord of his time, alongside François...
– Daphnis et EgléDaphnis et EgléDaphnis et Eglé is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau, first performed on 30 October 1753 at Fontainebleau. It takes the form of a pastorale héroïque in one act. The librettist was Charles Collé, and this was the only artistic collaboration between Collé and Rameau. Paul F...
Births
- January 23 – Muzio ClementiMuzio ClementiMuzio Clementi was a celebrated composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer. Born in Italy, he spent most of his life in England. He is best known for his piano sonatas, and his collection of piano studies, Gradus ad Parnassum...
, composer (died 1832) - August 22 – Christian Friedrich Ruppe, composer
- November 6 – Jean-Baptiste BrevalJean-Baptiste BrevalJean-Baptiste Sebastien Bréval was a French cellist and composer. He wrote mostly pieces for his own instrument, and performed many world premières of his own pieces.-Life:...
, cellist and composer (died 1823) - November 20 – Johann Schenk, composer
Deaths
- February 16 – Giacomo FaccoGiacomo FaccoGiacomo Facco was an Italian Baroque violinist, conductor and composer. One of the most famous Italian composers of his day, he was completely forgotten until 1962, when his work was discovered by scholar Uberto Zanolli.-Biography:Facco was born in Marsango, a small settlement near Padua and...
, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 16761676 in music-Events:*Construction of the Teatro San Angelo in Venice is completed.*Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni arrives in Rieti.-Births:*January 19 - John Weldon, musician *February 4 - Giacomo Facco, violinist, conductor and composer...
) - May 19 – Jacques AubertJacques AubertJacques Aubert , also known as Jacques Aubert le Vieux , was a French composer and violinist....
, composer - August 4 – Gottfried SilbermannGottfried SilbermannGottfried Silbermann was an influential German constructor of keyboard instruments. He built harpsichords, clavichords, organs, and fortepianos; his modern reputation rests mainly on the latter two.-Life:...
, German constructor of keyboard instruments (b. 16831693 in music-Events:*Georg Philipp Telemann is sent to school in Zellerfeld, in the hope that it will put him off a musical career.*John Eccles becomes resident composer at Drury Lane theatre.-Opera:*Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Médée*Henri Desmarets – Didon-Births:...
) - September 24 – Georg Gebel (the younger)Georg Gebel (the younger)Georg Gebel was a German musician and composer.Gebel was born in Brieg, Silesia, to Georg Gebel the Elder, also a musician and composer. He studied music under his father, and in 1729 became second organist at the church of St. Mary Magdalene in Breslau, as well as Kapellmeister to the Duke of Oels...
, composer (b. 17091709 in music-Events:*Johann Georg Pisendel leaves his post in the court orchestra of Ansbach to travel to Leipzig, meeting Johann Sebastian Bach en route.*Antonio Stradivari makes the Viotti Stradivarius.- Classical music :...
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- Johann Nicolaus BachJohann Nicolaus BachJohann Nicolaus Bach was a German composer of the Baroque period.Johann Nicolaus was the eldest son of Johann Christoph Bach and the second cousin of Johann Sebastian Bach. He was educated at the University of Jena, where he later became organist...
, organist and composer, eldest son of Johann Christoph BachJohann Christoph BachJohann Christoph Bach was a German composer and organist of the Baroque period. He was born at Arnstadt, the son of Heinrich Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach's great uncle, hence he was Johann Sebastian's first cousin once removed. He was also the uncle of Maria Barbara Bach, J.S...
(b. 1669) - John HoltJohn Holt (composer)John Holt was a London bell ringer of the 18th century. A John Holt who was baptized at Christ Church Greyfriars on the 31st March 1726 is suggested to have been him although someone of the same name was also baptized in 1726 at another church. Either way he died at the young age of twenty-seven,...
, bell-ringer and composer (b. 17261726 in music-Events:*The Academy of Ancient Music is founded in London.*George Frideric Handel becomes a British subject.*Johann Sebastian Bach copies and performs 18 church cantatas written by his cousin, Johann Ludwig Bach....
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- Johann Nicolaus Bach