1746 in music
Events
Classical music
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- *Harpsichord Concerto in A major, H.422
- *Harpsichord Concerto in C major, H.423
- *Viola da Gamba Sonata in D major, H.559
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- *Sechs Choräle von verschiedener Art
- *Canon in G major, BWV 1076
- Francesco Feo – S. Francesco di Sales first performed
- Francesco Geminiani
- *6 Cello Sonatas, Op. 5
- *6 Concertos, Op.7
- Christoph Willibald Gluck – 6 Trio Sonatas, Wq.53
- Christoph Graupner – Ach Herr, mich armen Suender
- Joannes de Gruytters – his carillon book.
- George Frideric Handel
- *Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62 with words by Newburgh Hamilton
- *Concerto in D major, HWV 335a
- Niccolò Pasquali – Sonatas for two cellos
- Giovanni Benedetto Platti – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas, Op. 4
- Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer – Pièces de clavecin
- Rudolf Straube – 2 Lute Sonatas
- Giuseppe Tartini – 3 Violin Concertos, Libro 1
Popular music
From Scourging Rebellion by George Frideric Handel
Opera
Publications
- Burke Thumoth – 12 English and 12 Irish Airs with Variations
- Anonymous – ''The Compleat Tutor for the French Horn''
Methods and theory writings
Births
- January 11 – František Adam Míča, Czech composer
- January 23 – Pierre-Ulric Dubuisson, translator and actor
- February 13 – Giuseppe Maria Cambini, Italian composer
- April 4 – Alexandre-Louis Robineau, librettist
- June 2– Wilhelm Cramer, composer and violinist
- June 3 – James Hook (composer), composer
- June 29 – Joachim Heinrich Campe, German librettist
- July 2 – Hartenack Otto Conrad Zinck, Danish composer
- August 21 – Ignaz Umlauf, Austrian composer
- September 3 – Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter, librettist and poet
- September 20 – Christian Benjamin Uber, German composer
- September 26 – Giovanni Punto, composer and horn player
- October 4 – Domenico Corri, Italian composer
- October 7 – William Billings, American composer
- October 12 – Emerico Lobo de Mesquita, composer and collaborator
- October 22 – Hector Macneill, librettist and poet
- November 15 – Joseph Quesnel, composer
- December 19 – Venanzio Rauzzini, collector and opera singer
- December 21 – Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty, librettist and poet unknown date - Avdotya Mikhaylova, opera singer
Deaths