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1743 in music

Events

Classical music

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Keyboard Sonata in B minor, H.32.5
  • William Boyce – Solomon (serenata)
  • Maurice Greene – "Thou visitest the earth" (Song)
  • George Frideric Handel
  • Samson (oratorio, composed 1741–42, premiered 18 February 1732 at Covent Garden in London)
  • Semele, HWV 58 (oratorio, composed 3 June to 4 July, not performed until 1744)
  • Joseph and His Brethren, HWV 59
  • Te Deum in D major, HWV 283
  • Organ Concerto in A major, HWV 307
  • Niccolò Jommelli – La Betulia liberata (sacred oratorio)
  • Johann Ludwig Krebs – 6 Trios, Krebs-WV 317–322
  • James Oswald – Colin's Kisses, a set of 12 songs.
  • Giuseppe Tartini – 12 Violin Sonatas, published in Rome in 1745 as Op. 2 and in Paris, ca. 1747 as Op. 3 (at least two other publications are known as Op. 2, including the 6 Violin Sonatas published in Amsterdam in this year, but there are no other collections published as Op. 3)
  • Valentin Rathgeber – Pastorellen für die Weihnachtszeit, R 322

Opera

Publications

  • Francesco Geminiani – Pièces de clavecin tirées des differens ouvrages de Mr F. Geminiani adaptées par luy même (arrangements, mostly from Opp. 1 and 4)
  • Maurice Greene – 40 Select Anthems in Score
  • Louis-Gabriel Guillemain – 6 Sonates en quatuors, ou conversations galantes, for flute, violin, viola da gamba, and basso continuo, Op. 12 (Paris)
  • Jean-Marie Leclair – Quatrième livre de sonates, for violin (two alternatively for flute) and basso continuo, Op. 9 (Paris)
  • Giovanni Benedetto Platti – 6 Flute Sonatas, Op. 3 (Nuremberg)
  • Giuseppe Sammartini – 12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 3 (Paris)
  • Giuseppe Tartini – VI Sonate, for violin and basso continuo, Op. 2 (Amsterdam) (two other collections were published as Op. 2, VI concerti a 8 in Amsterdam, 1734, and 12 Sonatas for violin and basso continuo in Rome, 1745, but also in Paris, ca. 1747 as Op. 3)

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