1752 in music

Events

February 3 – Opéra-Théâtre de Metz Métropole in Metz, Lorraine, is opened.
June 13 – Composer Maria Teresa Agnesi marries Pier Antonio Pinottini.
September 25 – Antonio Soler becomes organist at El Escorial.
November 3 – George Frideric Handel is operated on for an eye condition, at Guy's Hospital in London.
Christoph Willibald Gluck becomes Konzertmeister at Vienna.
Artist Thomas Gainsborough joins the Ipswich Musical Society; he later paints the portrait of English composer Joseph Gibbs
Nicola Porpora leaves Dresden for Vienna.
Johann Wilhelm Hertel replaces his father, Johann Christian Hertel, as Kapellmeister at the court of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
Anton Cajetan Adlgasser marries Maria Josepha, daughter of Johann Ernst Eberlin.
Ferdinando Bertoni becomes first organist at St Mark's Basilica in Venice.

Classical music

George Frideric Handel – Jephtha
Johann Adolph Scheibe – Der Tempel des Ruhmes
Georg Philipp Telemann
*Concerto à 4, TWV 43:D4
*Sonata à 4, TWV 43:F1

Opera

Jean-Baptiste Cardonne – Amaryllis
Christoph Willibald Gluck – La clemenza di Tito, Wq.16
Carl Heinrich Graun
*L'Orfeo, GraunWV B:I:25
*Il giudizio di Paride, GraunWV B:I:26
Niccolò Jommelli – I rivali delusi
Jean-Jacques Rousseau – ''Le Devin du Village''

Publications

Filippo Palma – Sei arie con istromenti, Op. 4
Domenico Scarlatti – 12 Sonatas Modernas para Clavicordio, Libro 1
Georg Philipp Telemann – Second Livre de duo pour deux violons, fluttes ou hautbois, 6 sonatas without bass, TWV 40:124–129

Methods and theory writings

Charles Avison – Essay on Musical Expression
Jean le Rond D'Alembert – Eléments de musique théorique et pratique
Johann Joachim Quantz – Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversiere zu spielen, a treatise on playing the flute
Jean-Philippe Rameau – Nouvelles réflexions de M. Rameau sur sa Démonstration du principe de l'harmonie
Joseph Riepel – ''Anfangsgründe zur musicalischen Setzkunst''

Births

January 24 – Muzio Clementi, composer and pianist
February 11 – Charles Knyvett, singer and arranger
February 12 – Josef Reicha, conductor and composer
March 29 – Edward Jones, composer and harpist
April 4 – Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, composer
April 5 – Sébastien Érard, piano-maker
May 2 – Ludwig August Lebrun, composer
May 14 – Juliane Reichardt, pianist, singer and composer
May 31 – John Marsh, composer
September 8 – Carl Stenborg, operatic tenor and composer
September 30 – Justin Heinrich Knecht, organist and composer
October 22 – Ambrogio Minoja, composer
November 25 – Johann Friedrich Reichardt, composer and music critic
November 30 – André da Silva Gomes, Brazilian composer
December 3 – Georg Friedrich Fuchs, composer, clarinetist and music teacher
December 4 – Ange-Étienne-Xavier Poisson de La Chabeaussière, librettist and playwright
date unknown
*Francesco Bianchi, composer and music collector
*Leonard McNally, librettist and writer
*Abraham Wood, military drummer and composer

Deaths

January 1 – Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Sindhi Sufi scholar, mystic, saint, poet, and musician
March 7 – Pietro Castrucci, violinist and composer
June 19 – Hieronymus Albrecht Hass, harpsichord and clavichord maker
July 20 – Johann Christoph Pepusch, composer
July 24 – Michael Christian Festing, violinist and composer
date unknown
*Girolamo Donnini, composer and conductor
*Anton Wilhelm Solnitz, composer