1745 in music

Events

• April 16 Johann Sebastian Bach revives the anonymous St Luke Passion BWV 246 with an additional chorale by Bach himself at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
• Thomas Arne enlarges the orchestra at Vauxhall Gardens, taking on John Hebden as principal cellist and bassoonist.
• Giovanni Battista Pescetti returns to Venice and becomes Second Organist at St Mark's Basilica.
• After 1745 Bach performs the Passion cantata pastiche Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt.

Classical music

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
• *Menuet con 5 Variazioni, Wq, 118, H.44
• *Harpsichord Concerto in E minor, H.418
• *Harpsichord Concerto in D minor, H.420
• *Harpsichord Concerto in D major, H.421
• *Trio Sonata in C major, H.573
• Johann Sebastian Bach – Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191
• Wilhelm Friedemann Bach – Keyboard Sonata in D major, F.3
• Johann Ernst Eberlin – 9 Toccatas and Fugues, published in Augsburg, 1747, as IX toccate e fughe
• George Frideric Handel – Hercules, HWV 60
• Johann Melchior Molter – Clarinet Concerto in G major, MWV 6.40
• Johann Joachim Quantz – Flute Concerto in G major, QV 5:174
• John Stanley – 10 Voluntaries, published in 1748 as Op. 5
• Georg Philipp Telemann – Johannes Passion, TWV 5:30
• Tomaso Antonio Vitali – Chaconne in G minor

Opera

• Ferdinando Bertoni – La vedova accorta
• François Francœur and François Rebel
• *Le Trophée
• *Zélindor, roi des Sylphes
• George Frideric Handel – Comus
• Gennaro Manna – Lucio Vero
• Jean-Philippe Rameau
• *Les Fêtes de Polymnie, RCT 39
• *Platée, RCT 53
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Les Muses galantes
• Georg Christoph Wagenseil – ''Ariodante''

Popular music

Publications

• Louis-Antoine Dornel – Le tour du clavier sur tous les tons
• John Stanley – Six Solo's for flute or violin and harpsichord, Op. 4
• Giuseppe Tartini – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 2

Methods and theory writings

• Bartolomé Ferriol – Reglas utiles para los aficionados a danzar
• Georg Andreas Sorge – ''Vorgemach der musicalischen Composition''

Births

• January 17 – Nicolas Roze, music collector and composer
• January 18 – Caterino Mazzolà, librettist and poet
• February – Johann Peter Salomon, violinist, conductor and composer
• March 4 – Charles Dibdin, British composer
• April 7 – Jiří Družecký, Czech composer
• May 7 – Carl Stamitz, composer
• July 15 – Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Benda, composer and musician
• August 19 – Johann Ignaz Ludwig Fischer, operatic bass
• November 9 – Johann Michael Bach, musician and theorist
• December 9 – Maddalena Laura Sirmen, violinist, singer and composer
• December 25 – Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the "Black Mozart"
• date unknown – Sophia Baddeley, actress and singer

Deaths

• January – Giovanni Lorenzo Gregori, collector and composer
• February 18 – Nicola Fago, composer and music teacher
• March 15 – Michel de la Barre, flautist and composer
• April 18 – Francesco Venturini, composer and musician
• April 27 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, composer
• May 9 – Tomaso Antonio Vitali, violinist and composer
• June 25 – Johann Wilhelm Drese, composer
• June 28 – Antoine Forqueray, viola da gamba player and composer
• September 5 – Simon-Joseph Pellegrin, librettist and poet
• October 18 – Jacques Autreau, librettist and painter
• October 19 – Jonathan Swift, librettist and satirist
• October 24 – Antonio Veracini, violinist and composer
• November 5 – Françoise-Charlotte de Senneterre Ménétou, French composer
• December 6 – Christoph Förster, German composer
• December 23 – Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer
• date unknown – Charles Coffey, dramatist and composer