1743 in music

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List of years in music (table)

Events[]

  • March 23 – English premiere of Handel's Messiah before royalty at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach examines the organ at the Johanniskirche, Leipzig.
  • 1743–1746 Bach revises his St Matthew Passion (two organs used again, but viola da gamba still retained; recitatives revised so that now only the vox Christi recitatives have sustained continuo parts). No evidence of version being performed (version we know today).

Classical music[]

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Publications[]

  • Francesco GeminianiPièces 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 Guillemain6 Sonates en quatuors, ou conversations galantes, for flute, violin, viola da gamba, and basso continuo, Op. 12 (Paris)
  • Jean-Marie LeclairQuatrième 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 TartiniVI 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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