1747 in music

1747 was an important year in music.

Events

April 30 â Possible premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's last St Mark Passion pastiche (BC D 5) at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig. In addition to two movements by Bach, he incorporates seven arias from George Frideric Handel's Brockes Passion HWV 48 into the work.^{[dubious â discuss]}
October 4 â Schlosstheater SchÃ¶nbrunn opens.^[1]
Johann Sebastian Bach is presented to King Frederick II of Prussia in Potsdam; the king plays a theme for Bach and challenges the musician to improvise a six-part fugue based on it.^[2]
Luigi Boccherini goes to Rome to study the cello.^[3]

Maria Teresa Agnesi â Il restauro d'Arcadia (cantata)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach â Trio Sonata in F major, H.576
Johann Sebastian Bach
- Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her, BWV 769
- Musikalisches Opfer, BWV 1079 (the Musical Offering)
William Boyce â 12 Trio Sonatas
Antoine Forqueray â PiÃ¨ces de viole mises en piÃ¨ces de clavecin (posthumously published)
George Frideric Handel â Judas Maccabeus (oratorio)
Jean-Marie Leclair â 6 Duos for 2 Violins, Op. 12
Jean-Philippe Rameau â La Dauphine (harpsichord piece).
Giuseppe Sammartini â 6 Concerti Grossi, Op. 5
Giuseppe Tartini â L'arte del arco (first set of 17 variations on a theme from Corelli's Op. 5) (attribution to Tartini in question)

February â Narciso Casanovas, Spanish composer (died 1799)
March 29 â Johann Wilhelm HÃ¤ssler, German organist and composer (died 1822)
March 31 â Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, musician and composer (died 1800)
June 24 â John O'Keeffe, Irish librettist (died 1833)
June 26 â Leopold Kozeluch, prolific composer and teacher (died 1818)
September 22 â JÃ³zef Wybicki, composer and poet (died 1822)
October 26 â Giovanni Mane Giornovichi, violinist and composer (died 1804)
November 24 â Felice Alessandri, Italian composer (died 1798)
date unknown
- Narciso Casanovas, Spanish monk and composer
- Michael Ehregott Grose, Danish organist and composer (died 1795)
- FranÃ§ois Tourte, maker of violin bows (died 1835)