1744 in music

Events

• March 27 Johann Sebastian Bach revives his St Mark Passion with some textual changes and two new arias inserted at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.
• Castrato Giovanni Carestini goes to work for Maria Theresa of Austria.

Classical music

• Nicola Porpora
• * Laetatus sum
• * De profundis
• * Placida surge aurora
• Thomas Arne
• *The Death of Abel
• *Judith
• Johann Sebastian Bach – Das wohltemperierte Klavier, part 2
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
• *Keyboard Sonata in E major, H.39
• *Harpsichord Concerto in F major, H.415
• *Harpsichord Concerto in E major, H.417
• Michele Blavet – Premier recueil de pieces
• Michael Christian Festing – 6 Violin Sonatas, Op.7
• Christoph Graupner
• *Trio Sonata in C minor, GWV 203
• *Trio Sonata in D major, GWV 204
• *Sonata in G major, GWV 212
• *Trio Sonata in B minor, GWV 219
• *Concerto for 2 Flutes in E minor, GWV 322
• *Concerto for 2 Horns in G major, GWV 332
• *Bassoon Concerto in B-flat major, GWV 340
• Johann Adolph Hasse – 6 Flute Sonatas, Op. 5
• Johann Ludwig Krebs
• * Clavier-Übung I, Krebs-WV 500-512
• * Clavier-Übung II, Krebs-WV 800
• * Clavier-Übung III, Krebs-WV 801-806
• Etienne Mangean – 6 Sonatas for 2 Violins, Op. 3
• Niccolò Pasquali – 6 Sonatas for Violin, Op. 1
• John Frederick Ranish – 12 Flute Sonatas, Op. 2
• Johan Helmich Roman – Drottningholm Music
• Domenico Natale Sarro – Recorder Sonata in F major
• Georg Phillip Telemann – Jauchzet, ihr Himmel, TWV 1:957
• Francesco Maria Veracini
• *L'errore di Salomone
• *12 Sonate accademiche, Op. 2
• Jan Dismas Zelenka
• * Litaniae Lauretanae, ZWV 151
• * Litaniae Lauretanae, ZWV 152

Opera

• Daniele Dal Barba – Il Tigrane
• Christoph Willibald Gluck
• *La Sofonisba, Wq.5
• *Ipermestra, Wq. 7
• George Frideric Handel – Semele
• Johann Adolph Hasse
• *Antigono
• *Semiramide riconosciuta
• John Frederick Lampe – ''The Kiss Accepted and Returned''

Publications

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas, Wq.49
• Delphin Strungk
• *Lass mich dein sein und bleiben
• *''Meine Seele erhebt den Herren''

Methods and theory writings

• Johan Daniel Berlin – ''Musicaliske Elementer''

Births

• May 3 – Friedrich Wilhelm Weis, composer
• May 4 – Marianna Martines, singer, pianist and composer
• May 18 – Joseph Beer, composer and clarinetist
• May 19 – Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, regular patron of Mozart's
• August 4 – Julije Bajamonti
• August 25 – Johann Gottfried Herder, librettist and philosopher
• November 26 – Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff
• December 8 – Pierre-Joseph Candeille, French composer
• date unknown
• *Marie Barch, first native Danish ballerina
• *Gaetano Brunetti, Italian composer
• *Francesco Petrini, composer and musician
• *Charles le Picq, French dancer and choreographer

Deaths

• January 14 – Charles-Hubert Gervais, composer
• January 20 – Richard Jones, violinist and composer
• February 15 – František Václav Míča, conductor and composer
• March 22 – Georg Lenck, German musician
• April 26 – Domenico Sarro, Italian composer
• May 9 – Johann Samuel Beyer
• May 30 – Alexander Pope, English poet
• June 29 – André Campra, composer
• August 19 – Carlo Arrigoni
• October 17 – Giuseppe Guarneri, violin-maker
• October 23 – Pierre-Charles Roy, librettist and poet
• October 31 – Leonardo Leo, composer
• December 29 – Pompeo Cannicciari
• date unknown
• *Claude Balon, dancer and choreographer
• *Gennaro Antonio Federico, Italian librettist
• *James Miller, librettist and playwright
• *Francesca Vanini-Boschi, operatic contralto