1737 in music

Events

April – George Frideric Handel suffers a probable stroke, resulting in the temporary paralysis of his right arm.
November 4 – Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, inaugurated with a performance of Domenico Sarro's Achille in Sciro.
William Boyce conducts the Three Choirs Festival

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
*Harpsichord Concerto in G major, H. 405
*Flute Sonata in E minor, H. 551
Johann Sebastian Bach – Mass in G major, BWV 236
Christoph Graupner – Concerto for Chalumeau, Bassoon and Cello in C major, GWV 306
George Frideric Handel – Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline, HWV 264
Leonardo Leo
*Cello Concerto in D major, L. 10
*Cello Concerto in A major, L. 20
*Cello Concerto in F minor, L. 40
Nicola Porpora – Il Gedeone
Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel – Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe, H. 342
Jan Dismas Zelenka
*Requiem, ZWV 45
*6 Ave Regina Coelorum, ZWV 128
*Il diamante, ZWV 177

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier – 9 Sonatas and Chaconne, Op. 66
Nicolas Chédeville – Il Pastor Fido Sonatas
Michel Corrette – Premier Livre d’Orgue, Op. 16
Charles Dollé – Pièces de viole, Op. 2
Giovanni Battista Ferrandini – 6 Sonatas, Op. 2
Charles-Joseph van Helmont – Pièces de Clavecin, Op. 1
Jean-Marie Leclair
*6 Violin Concertos, Op. 7
*Deuxième recréation de musique d’une execution facile, Op. 8
Pietro Locatelli – 12 Sonate da camera, Op. 6
Il Maestro di Musica – Pasticcio with music by Pietro Auletta, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Alessandro Parisotti
Ohrenvergnügendes und gemütergötzendes Tafelkonfekt, Augsburg.

Carl Johann Friedrich Haltmeier – Anleitung zum Transponieren
Jacques Hotteterre – Méthode pour la musette, Op. 10
David Kellner – Treulicher Unterricht im General-Baß
John Frederick Lampe – A Plain and Compendious Method of Teaching Thorough Bass
Johann Mattheson – Kern Melodischer Wissenschafft
Jean-Phillipe Rameau – Génération harmonique, ou Traité de musique théorique et pratique
Johann Adolph Scheibe – ''Der critische Musicus''