1737 in music
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Events
- April â George Frideric Handel suffers a probable stroke, resulting in the temporary paralysis of his right arm.
- November 4 â Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, inaugurated with a performance of Domenico Sarro's Achille in Sciro.
- William Boyce conducts the Three Choirs Festival
Classical music
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Harpsichord Concerto in G major, H. 405
- Flute Sonata in E minor, H. 551
- Johann Sebastian Bach â Mass in G major, BWV 236
- Christoph Graupner â Concerto for Chalumeau, Bassoon and Cello in C major, GWV 306
- George Frideric Handel â Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline, HWV 264
- Leonardo Leo
- Cello Concerto in D major, L. 10
- Cello Concerto in A major, L. 20
- Cello Concerto in F minor, L. 40
- Nicola Porpora â Il Gedeone (sacred oratorio)
- Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel â Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe, H. 342
- Jan Dismas Zelenka
- Requiem, ZWV 45 (attribution is contested)
- 6 Ave Regina Coelorum, ZWV 128
- Il diamante, ZWV 177
Opera
- Domenico Alberti â Endimione
- Giovanni Bononcini â Zenobia
- Riccardo Broschi â Merope
- George Frideric Handel
- Johann Adolph Hasse â Asteria
- John Frederick Lampe and Henry Carey â The Dragon of Wantley
- Leonardo Leo
- L'Olimpiade
- Siface
- Jean-Philippe Rameau â Castor et Pollux
- Nicola Antonio Porpora â Lucio Papirio
- Domenico Sarro â Achille in Sciro
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Catone In Utica
- Oracolo in Messenia, RV 726
Publications
- Joseph Bodin de Boismortier â 9 Sonatas and Chaconne, Op. 66
- Nicolas Chédeville â Il Pastor Fido Sonatas (originally attributed to Vivaldi as his Op. 13)
- Michel Corrette â Premier Livre dâOrgue, Op. 16
- Charles Dollé â Pièces de viole, Op. 2
- Giovanni Battista Ferrandini â 6 Sonatas, Op. 2
- Charles-Joseph van Helmont â Pièces de Clavecin, Op. 1
- Jean-Marie Leclair
- 6 Violin Concertos, Op. 7
- Deuxième recréation de musique dâune execution facile, Op. 8 (Paris)
- Pietro Locatelli â 12 Sonate da camera, Op. 6
- Il Maestro di Musica â Pasticcio with music by Pietro Auletta, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Alessandro Parisotti
- Ohrenvergnügendes und gemütergötzendes Tafelkonfekt, Augsburg. (includes works by Valentin Rathgeber)
Methods and theory writings
- Carl Johann Friedrich Haltmeier â Anleitung zum Transponieren
- Jacques Hotteterre â Méthode pour la musette, Op. 10
- David Kellner â Treulicher Unterricht im General-BaÃ
- John Frederick Lampe â A Plain and Compendious Method of Teaching Thorough Bass
- Johann Mattheson â Kern Melodischer Wissenschafft
- Jean-Phillipe Rameau â Génération harmonique, ou Traité de musique théorique et pratique
- Johann Adolph Scheibe â Der critische Musicus
Births
- January 3 â Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg, poet and librettist (died 1823)
- January 19 â Giuseppe Millico, castrato singer, composer and music teacher (died 1802)
- March 9 â Josef MysliveÄek, composer (died 1781)
- April 10 â François Giroust (died 1799)
- September 14 â Michael Haydn, composer (died 1806)
- September 21 â Francis Hopkinson (died 1791)
- November 25 â Christian Friedrich Penzel (died 1801)
- date unknown
- William Paxton, cellist and composer (died 1781)
- Frederick Charles Reinhold, operatic bass (died 1815)
- Marguerite Morel, Ballerina, actress and singer.
Deaths
- February 12 â Benjamin Schmolck, Lutheran hymn-writer (born 1672)
- September 22
- Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, composer (born 1667)
- Francesco Mancini, composer and music teacher (born 1672)
- December 18 â Antonio Stradivari, violin-maker (born 1644)