1739 in music

Events

March 27 Johann Sebastian Bach performs the Brockes-Passion TWV 5: 1 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
September – Leopold Mozart is expelled from the Benedictine University of Salzburg for poor attendance.
1739–1749 Bach revises his St John Passion BWV 245 --version never performed during his lifetime.
1739–1742 Bach starts revising some of his Weimar period Chorale preludes in a new manuscript. Included at this period are BWV 651–663. The manuscript would also contain his Sonatas BWV 525–530 and also his Canonic Variations on "Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her" BWV 769.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
*Keyboard Sonata in G minor, H.21
*Harpsichord Concerto in C minor, H.407
Henry Carey – "Flocks Are Sporting"
George Frederic Handel
*Israel in Egypt, an oratorio, premiered in London
*Saul, an oratorio, premiered in London
*Concerto Grosso in G major, HWV 319, published 1740 in 12 Concerti Grossi Op. 6
*Concerto Grosso in C minor, HWV 326, published 1740.
*Concerto Grosso in B minor, HWV 330, published 1740.
Leonardo Leo – Miserere
Giovanni Battista Pescetti – 10 Harpsichord Sonatas
Georg Philipp Telemann – 6 Moralische Kantaten, TWV 20:29–34
Johann Adolph Hasse - ''Quando Jesus est in corde''

Johann Sebastian Bach – Clavier-Übung III, a collection of organ music
René Drouard de Bousset – 2e recueil de cantates spirituelles tirées des histoires les plus intéressantes de l'Ancien Testament à voix seule, et à deux voix avec simphonie et sans simphonie
Nicolas Chédeville
*6 Flute Sonatas, Op. 7
*Le Printems ou Les Saisons amusantes, Op. 8
Francesco Geminiani – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 4
Jean-François Dandrieu – Pièces d'orgue, Livre 1
George Frideric Handel – Trio Sonatas, Op. 5
Gottlieb Muffat – Componimenti musicali
Clair-Nicolas Roget – 6 Sonatas for 2 Flutes, Op. 1
Georg Philipp Telemann – ''Essercizii musici''

John Arnold – The Compleat Psalmodist
Louis-Joseph Marchand – Traité de contrepoint simple
Johann Mattheson – Der vollkommene Capellmeister
Johann Adolph Scheibe – ''Eine Abhandlung von den Musicalischen Intervallen und Geschlechten''

Hieronymus Florentinus Quehl