1752 in music
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Events
- February 3 â Opéra-Théâtre de Metz Métropole in Metz, Lorraine, is opened.
- June 13 â Composer Maria Teresa Agnesi marries Pier Antonio Pinottini.
- September 25 â Antonio Soler becomes organist at El Escorial.[1]
- November 3 â George Frideric Handel is operated on for an eye condition, at Guy's Hospital in London.[1]
- Christoph Willibald Gluck becomes Konzertmeister at Vienna.
- Artist Thomas Gainsborough joins the Ipswich Musical Society; he later paints the portrait of English composer Joseph Gibbs
- Nicola Porpora leaves Dresden for Vienna.
- Johann Wilhelm Hertel replaces his father, Johann Christian Hertel, as Kapellmeister at the court of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
- Anton Cajetan Adlgasser marries Maria Josepha, daughter of Johann Ernst Eberlin.
- Ferdinando Bertoni becomes first organist at St Mark's Basilica in Venice.
Classical music
- George Frideric Handel â Jephtha
- Johann Adolph Scheibe â Der Tempel des Ruhmes
- Georg Philipp Telemann
- Concerto à 4, TWV 43:D4
- Sonata à 4, TWV 43:F1
Opera
- Jean-Baptiste Cardonne â Amaryllis
- Christoph Willibald Gluck â La clemenza di Tito, Wq.16
- Carl Heinrich Graun
- L'Orfeo, GraunWV B:I:25
- Il giudizio di Paride, GraunWV B:I:26
- Niccolò Jommelli â I rivali delusi (intermezzo)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau â Le Devin du Village (part of Rousseau's response in the Querelle des Bouffons)
Publications
- Filippo Palma â Sei arie con istromenti, Op. 4 (London: John Johnson)
- Domenico Scarlatti â 12 Sonatas Modernas para Clavicordio, Libro 1 (London: J. Johnson)
- Georg Philipp Telemann â Second Livre de duo pour deux violons, fluttes ou hautbois (Paris: Mr. Blavet, Mme. Boivin, Mr. Le Clerc, Melle. Castagneri), 6 sonatas without bass, TWV 40:124â129
Methods and theory writings
- Charles Avison â Essay on Musical Expression
- Jean le Rond D'Alembert â Eléments de musique théorique et pratique
- Johann Joachim Quantz â Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversiere zu spielen, a treatise on playing the flute
- Jean-Philippe Rameau â Nouvelles réflexions de M. Rameau sur sa Démonstration du principe de l'harmonie
- Joseph Riepel â Anfangsgründe zur musicalischen Setzkunst
Births
- January 24 â Muzio Clementi, composer and pianist (died 1832)
- February 11 â Charles Knyvett, singer and arranger (died 1822)
- February 12 â Josef Reicha, conductor and composer (died 1795)
- March 29 â Edward Jones, composer and harpist (died 1824)
- April 4 â Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, composer (died 1837)
- April 5 â Sébastien Ãrard, piano-maker (died 1831)
- May 2 â Ludwig August Lebrun, composer (died 1790)
- May 14 â Juliane Reichardt, pianist, singer and composer (died 1783)
- May 31 â John Marsh, composer (died 1828)
- September 8 â Carl Stenborg, operatic tenor and composer (died 1813)
- September 30 â Justin Heinrich Knecht, organist and composer (died 1817)
- October 22 â Ambrogio Minoja, composer (died 1825)
- November 25 â Johann Friedrich Reichardt, composer and music critic (died 1814)
- November 30 â André da Silva Gomes, Brazilian composer (died 1844)
- December 3 â Georg Friedrich Fuchs, composer, clarinetist and music teacher (died 1821)
- December 4 â Ange-Ãtienne-Xavier Poisson de La Chabeaussière, librettist and playwright (died 1820)
- date unknown
- Francesco Bianchi, composer and music collector (died 1810)
- Leonard McNally, librettist and writer (died 1820)
- Abraham Wood, military drummer and composer (died 1804)
Deaths
- January 1 â Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Sindhi Sufi scholar, mystic, saint, poet, and musician (born 1689)
- March 7 â Pietro Castrucci, violinist and composer (born 1679)
- June 19 â Hieronymus Albrecht Hass, harpsichord and clavichord maker
- July 20 â Johann Christoph Pepusch, composer (born 1667)
- July 24 â Michael Christian Festing, violinist and composer
- date unknown
- Girolamo Donnini, composer and conductor[2]
- Anton Wilhelm Solnitz, composer (born c.1708)