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1733 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1733.

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Events

  • July 2 - Johann Sebastian Bach performs a revised version of his Magnificat in D major, BWV 243, ending the mourning period for Augustus II the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland.
  • July 10 - George Frideric Handel premieres his English-language oratorio Athalia at the University of Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre.
  • Thomas Arne's first opera, Rosamund, is staged, with his sister, Susannah Maria, performing.
  • First opera staged at the Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù, A. Aurelli’s Gerone, tiranno di Siracusa.
  • Wilhelm Friedemann Bach is appointed organist of the Sophienkirche, Dresden.
  • Approximate date of the William Dixon manuscript of music for the Border pipes.
  • Jean-Marie Leclair becomes musical director to King Louis XV of France.
  • Charles Theodore Pachelbel settles in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • After 1733 - Johann Sebastian Bach makes the Leipzig premiere of the Passion cantata Ein lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld by Carl Heinrich Graun.

    • Publications

  • Pietro Locatelli – L'arte del violino
  • Orpheus caledonius: or, A collection of Scots songs – William Thomson

    • Classical music

  • Johann Sebastian Bach – Mass for the Dresden court (Kyrie and Gloria), later part of the Mass in B minor
  • Francesco Geminiani – Concerti grossi, Op. 3
  • Pietro Locatelli – L'arte del violino
  • Benedetto Marcello – Il pianto e il riso delle quattro stagioni (oratorio)

    • Opera

  • Francisco António de Almeida – La pazienza di Socrate
  • Thomas Arne – Rosamund
  • George Frideric Handel – Orlando
  • John Frederick Lampe – Dione
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – La serva padrona (intermezzo)
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau – Hippolyte et Aricie

    • Births

  • January 3 - Josina van Aerssen (died 1797)
  • January 17 - Thomas Linley the elder (died 1795)
  • October 28 – Franz Ignaz von Beecke (died 1803)
  • October 29 – Gottfried van Swieten, collaborator of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven

    • Deaths

  • February 26 – Johann Adam Birkenstock, violinist and composer (born 1687)
  • May 18 – Georg Böhm, organist (born 1661)
  • July 2 – Christian Petzold, organist and composer (born 1677)
  • September 12 – François Couperin (born 1668)

    • References

    1733 in music Wikipedia
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