1743 in music

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. No evidence of version being performed.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Keyboard Sonata in B minor, H.32.5
William Boyce – Solomon
Maurice Greene – "Thou visitest the earth"
George Frideric Handel
*Samson
*Semele, HWV 58
*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
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
Valentin Rathgeber – Pastorellen für die Weihnachtszeit, R 322

Francesco Geminiani – Pièces de clavecin tirées des differens ouvrages de Mr F. Geminiani adaptées par luy même
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
Jean-Marie Leclair – Quatrième livre de sonates, for violin and basso continuo, Op. 9
Giovanni Benedetto Platti – 6 Flute Sonatas, Op. 3
Giuseppe Sammartini – 12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 3
Giuseppe Tartini – VI Sonate, for violin and basso continuo, Op. 2