- 1745 in music
Events
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Thomas Arne enlarges the orchestra atVauxhall Gardens , taking onJohn Hebden as principal cellist "and" bassoonistClassical music
* "Hercules" (oratorio) by Handel
Opera
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Ferdinando Bertoni - "La vedova accorta"
*George Frideric Handel - "Comus" (based on the masque byJohn Milton )
*Jean-Philippe Rameau - "Platée"
*Jean-Jacques Rousseau - "Les Muses galantes"
*Georg Christoph Wagenseil - "Ariodante"Publications
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Louis-Antoine Dornel - "Le tour du clavier sur tous les tons"Births
*February -
Johann Peter Salomon , violinist, conductor and composer (died1815 )
*May 7 -Carl Stamitz , composer (died1801 )
*August 19 -Johann Ignaz Ludwig Fischer , operatic bass (died1825 )
*December 25 -Chevalier de Saint-Georges , the "Black Mozart" (died1799 )
*"date unknown"
**Sophia Baddeley , actress and singer (died1786 )Deaths
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February 5 -Coelestin Praelisauer , composer
*May 9 -Tomaso Antonio Vitali , violinist and composer (born1663 )
*June 22 -Hubert Renotte , composer
*October 24 -Antonio Veracini , violinist and composer (born1659 )
*December 23 -Jan Dismas Zelenka , composer (born1679 )
*"date unknown"
**Michel de la Barre , flautist and composer (born c.1675)
**Nicola Fago , composer and music teacher (born1677 )
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