April 8 Johann Sebastian Bach performs a copy he made of the Brockes Passion HWV 48 of George Frideric Handel at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.
Elias Gottlieb Haussmann completes his famous portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach
1746–1747 Bach adds two Chorale preludes (BWV 664 and 665) to his manuscript of the Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes.
Johann Sebastian Bach – Sechs Choräle von verschiedener Art
George Frideric Handel – Occasional Oratorio, with words by Newburgh Hamilton
Andrea Adolfati – La pace fra la virtù e la bellezza
Thomas Arne – Neptune and Amphitrite
Matteo Capranica – Alcibiade
Jean-Marie Leclair – Scylla et Glaucus
June 3 (probable) – James Hook (composer), composer (died 1827)
November 15 – Joseph Quesnel, composer (died 1809)
March 30 – Jean-Joseph Fiocco, composer (b. 1686)
May 15 – Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, composer
August 27 – Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, composer
December 10 – Teodorico Pedrini, priest, musician and composer (b. 1671)
unknown date – Jean-Baptiste Malter, dancer (b. 1701)
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