1755 in music

1755 in music

Events

*In Britain, William Boyce is appointed Master of the King's Musick.
*After a tour of Ireland fraught with disagreements, Thomas Arne and his wife, the soprano Cecilia Young, agree to separate.
*Ferdinando Bertoni becomes choirmaster at the Ospedale dei Mendicanti in Venice.

Classical music

*"Der Tod Jedu" by Carl Heinrich Graun
*"Divertimento in F major "Musical Sleigh Ride" by Leopold Mozart

Opera

*Johann Friedrich Agricola - "Il tempio d'amore"
*Pierre-Montan Berton - "Deucalion et Pyrrha"
*Antoine Dauvergne - "Les Troqueurs"
*Egidio Romualdo Duni - "L'Olimpiade"
*Carl Heinrich Graun - "Montezuma" (libretto by King Frederick II of Prussia)

Births

* May 12 - Giovanni Battista Viotti (died 1824)
* June 1 - Frederico Fiorillo, violinist and composer

Deaths

*January 11 - Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, harpsichordist and composer (born c.1705)
*August 13 - Francesco Durante, composer (born 1684)
*October 28 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (born 1689)
*November 25 - Johann Georg Pisendel, composer (born 1687)
*"date unknown"
**John Clerk of Penicuik, composer
**Manuel de Zumaya, Mexican composer (born c.1678)


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