1757 in music
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The year 1757 in music involved some significant compositions.
Events
- None listed
Classical music
- Thomas Arne â 7 Trio Sonatas, Op. 3
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Keyboard Sonata in D minor, H.38
- Fugue in A major, H.101
- Keyboard Sonata in D minor, H.105
- Keyboard Sonata in G major, H.119
- L'Auguste, H.122
- La Xénophone et La Sybille, H.123
- Georg Benda â 6 Harpsichord Sonatas
- Anna Bon â 6 Harpsichord Sonatas, Op. 2
- Louis-Claude Daquin â Livre de Noëls
- Johann Friedrich Fasch â Serenata Fwv B: 4 \ Beglückter Tag (written for the birthday of Catherine the Great)
- Carl Heinrich Graun â Te Deum, GraunWV B:VI:2
- George Frideric Handel â The Triumph of Time and Truth
- Joseph Haydn â String Quartets, Op.2 (written between 1757 and 1762)
- Johann Gottlieb Janitsch â Sonata da Camera in D major, Op.5
- Leopold Mozart â Concerto for Trombone in G major
- Charles Noblet â Nouvelles suittes [sic] de pièces de clavecin et trois sonates
- Giovanni Battista Serini
- Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major
- Keyboard Sonata in C major
- Keyboard Sonata in E major
- Georg Philipp Telemann â Lyksalig Tvillung-Rige!, TWV 12:10
Opera
- Florian Leopold Gassmann â Merope
- Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi â Lo solachianello imbroglione
- Niccolò Jommelli â Temistocle
- Jean-Philippe Rameau â L'enlèvement d'Adonis
- Giuseppe Scarlatti â La clemenza di Tito
- Tommaso Traetta â Didone abbandonata
Methods and theory writings
- Giovanni Batista Martini â Storia della musica
- Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg
- Anfangsgründe der theoretischen Musik (Leipzig: Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf)
- Handbuch bey dem Generalbasse und der Composition (Berlin: Gottlieb August Lange)
- Nicolo Pasquali â Thorough-Bass Made Easy
- Jean-Philippe Rameau â Réponse de M. Rameau à MM. les éditeurs de l'Encyclopédie sur leur dernier avertissement
Births
- January 28 â Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer (died 1821)
- January 29 â Lazare Rameau, composer (died 1794)
- February 17 â Antonio Calegari, composer (died 1828)
- April 22 â Alessandro Rolla, violinist, composer and music teacher (died 1841)
- May 27 â Caroline von Brandenstein, composer (died 1813)
- June 18 â Ignaz Pleyel, composer and piano-maker (died 1831)
- August 21 â Joseph Franz Ratschky, librettist (died 1810)
- September 6 â August Friedrich Ernst Langbein, German humorist and lyricist (died 1835)
- November 28 â William Blake, poet and lyricist (died 1827)[1]
- date unknown
- Osip Kozlovsky, composer (died 1831)
- Alessandro Pepoli, librettist (died 1796)
Deaths
- February 11 â Mauro DâAlay, composer and violinist (born 1687)
- February 25 â Paolo Benedetto Bellinzani, composer (born c. 1690)
- March 20 â Johann Paul Kunzen, composer (born 1696)
- March 27 â Johann Stamitz, violinist and composer (born 1717)
- July 23 â Domenico Scarlatti, composer (born 1685)
- August 11 â Jose Pradas Gallen, composer
- September 28 â Andrea Zani, violinist and composer (born 1696) (carriage accident)
- October 11 â Zacharias Hildebrandt, organ builder (born 1688)
- November 8 â Pierre Prowo, composer
- date unknown
- Lodovico Filippo Laurenti, composer (born 1693)
- Balthasar Siberer, organ teacher (born 1679)
- probable â Jean-Baptiste Masse, cellist and composer (born c. 1700)