1753 in music

Events

• January 10 – King Louis XV of France banishes and his Italian opera company from Paris.
• May 1 – George Frideric Handel plays the organ in public for the last time, at the Foundling Hospital, London.
• 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.
• 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.
• November 21 – Niccolò Jommelli is appointed music director and Oberkapellmeister to Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, at Stuttgart.
• 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
• 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

• Maria Agnesi – Ciro in Armenia
• Rinaldo Da Capua – La zingara
• Antoine Dauvergne – Les troqueurs
• Giovanni Battista Ferrandini – Catone in Utica
• Carl Heinrich Graun – Silla, GraunWV B:I:27
• Johann Adolf Hasse
• L'eroe cinese
• Solimano
• Niccolò Jommelli
• Attilio Regolo, with libretto by Metastasio (composed 1752, first performed)
• Bajazette
• La clemenza di Tito
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• Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville – Titon et l'Aurore
• Davide Perez – L'Olimpiade
• Jean-Philippe Rameau – Daphnis et Eglé