1753 in music
Overview of the events of 1753 in music
Overview of the events of 1753 in music
Events
January 10 – King Louis XV of France banishes Eustachio Bambini and his Italian opera company from Paris.[1]
May 1 – George Frideric Handel plays the organ in public for the last time, at the Foundling Hospital , London.[1]
June 15 – Schlosstheater Schwetzingen in Schwetzingen Palace , Baden-Württemberg , designed by Nicolas de Pigage , is inaugurated with a performance of Ignaz Holzbauer 's opera Il figlio delle selve .[2]
October 12 – Cuvilliés Theatre in the Munich Residenz , Bavaria, designed by François de Cuvilliés , is inaugurated with a performance of Ferrandini 's opera Catone in Utica .[3]
November 21 – Niccolò Jommelli is appointed music director and Oberkapellmeister to Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg , at Stuttgart.[1]
Teatro Carignano in Turin is inaugurated with a performance of Baldassare Galuppi 's opera Calamità de' cuori .
Grand Théâtre in Antwerp is inaugurated.
Classical music
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Harpsichord Concerto in C minor, H.441 Wq. 31
Harpsichord Concerto in B minor, H.440 Wq. 60
6 Keyboard Sonatas, Wq.63 (published in the treatise of the same year)
Christoph Graupner – Gott der Herr ist Sonne und Schild , GWV 1113/54 (autographed 1753, first performed 1754)
Niccolò Jommelli – 7 Trio Sonatas (two of which are not currently attributed to Jommelli)
Jean-Marie Leclair – [3] Ouvertures et [3] sonates en trio , Op. 13 (Paris). Ouverture No. 3 arranged from Ouverture to Scylla et Glaucus (1746); the trio sonatas are arranged from the solo sonatas Op. 2 No. 8, Op. 1 No. 12, and Op. 2 No. 12
Domenico Scarlatti – Books 3 and 5, 30 sonatas each Collection of Harpsichord Sonatas
Georg Philipp Telemann – Fürchtet den Herrn und dienet ihm treulich (oratorio)
Carlo Tessarini – Contrasto armonico , Op. 10[clarification needed ]
Giuseppe Valentini – Concerto in D major
Samuel Simon Weise – Det Danske Syngende Nymphe-Chor (collection of songs)
Johann Baptist Wendling – Flute Concerto in C major, GUN 26
Opera
Methods and theory writings
Births
January 9 – Luísa Todi , Portuguese opera singer (died 1833 )
March 2 – Johann Samuel Schröter , German composer (died 1788)
April 8 – Pigault-Lebrun , librettist and writer (died 1835)
May 3 – Jeanne-Renée de Bombelles Travanet, composer and librettist (died 1828)
June 8 – Nicolas Dalayrac , composer of opéra-comique (died 1809 )
September 29 – Johann Gottfried Schicht , conductor and composer (died 1823 )
November 4 – Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker , librettist and art historian (died 1813)
November 6 – Jean-Baptiste Bréval , cellist and composer (died 1823 )
November 19 – Stanislas Champein , French composer (died 1830)
November 30 – Johann Baptist Schenk , composer (died 1836 )
December 28 – Johan Wikmanson , organist and composer (died 1800 )
Deaths
February 7 – Giovanni Alberto Ristori , opera composer and conductor, 60
February 16 – Giacomo Facco , violinist, conductor and composer, 77
May 19 – Jacques Aubert , composer, 63
August 4 – Gottfried Silbermann , German constructor of keyboard instruments, 70
September 24 – Georg Gebel (the younger) , composer, 43
November – Giuseppe Valentini , violinist, painter, poet, and composer, 71
November 4 – Johann Nicolaus Bach , organist and composer, eldest son of Johann Christoph Bach , 84
November 16 – Nicolas Racot de Grandval , harpsichordist and composer, 77
unknown date – John Holt , bell-ringer and composer, 27
References
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