1752 in music

1752 in music

Events

*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.

Classical music

* "Jephtha" (oratorio) by Handel

Opera

*Jean-Baptiste Cardonne - "Amaryllis"
*Jean-Jacques Rousseau - "Le Devin du Village" (part of Rousseau's response in the Querelle des Bouffons)

Publications

*Charles Avison - "Essay on Musical Expression"
*Johann Joachim Quantz - "Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversière zu spielen", a treatise on the flute

Births

* April 5 - Sébastien Érard, piano-maker (died 1831)
* May 2 - Ludwig August Lebrun, composer (died 1790)
* September 18 - Johann Anton Sulzer, composer
* "unknown date" - Johann Samuel Schroeter, composer

Deaths

*June 19 - Hieronymus Albrecht Hass, harpsichord and clavichord maker
*July 20 - Johann Christoph Pepusch, composer
*July 24 - Michael Festing (composer), violinist and composer


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