1743 In Music

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Events

* March 23 – English premiere of Handel's '' Messiah'' before royalty at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London.
* Johann Sebastian Bach examines the organ at the Johanniskirche, Leipzig.
*1743–1746 Bach revises his ''St Matthew Passion'' (two organs used again, but viola da gamba still retained; recitatives revised so that now only the vox Christi recitatives have sustained continuo parts). No evidence of version being performed (version we know today).

Classical music

* Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Keyboard Sonata in B minor, H.32.5
*William Boyce – ''Solomon'' (serenata)
* Maurice Greene – "Thou visitest the earth" (Song)
*George Frideric Handel
**'' Samson'' (oratorio, composed 1741–42, premiered 18 February 1732 at Covent Garden in London)
**'' Semele'', HWV 58 (oratorio, composed 3 June to 4 July, not performed until 1744)
**''Joseph and His Brethren'', HWV 59
**Te Deum in D major, HWV 283
**Organ Concerto in A major, HWV 307
* Niccolò Jommelli – ''La Betulia liberata'' (sacred oratorio)
* Johann Ludwig Krebs – 6 Trios, Krebs-WV 317–322
* James Oswald – ''Colin's Kisses'', a set of 12 songs.
* Giuseppe Tartini – 12 Violin Sonatas, published in Rome in 1745 as Op. 2 and in Paris, ca. 1747 as Op. 3 (at least two other publications are known as Op. 2, including the 6 Violin Sonatas published in Amsterdam in this year, but there are no other collections published as Op. 3)
* Valentin Rathgeber – ''Pastorellen für die Weihnachtszeit'', R 322

Opera

* Joseph Bodin de Boismortier – '' Don Quichotte chez la duchesse'', Op.97
* Bernard de Bury – ''Les Caractères de la folie''
*Baldassare Galuppi – ''Enrico''
*Christoph Willibald Gluck – '' Demofoonte'', Wq.3
* Carl Heinrich Graun – ''Artaserse''
* Johann Adolph Hasse – ''Antigono''
*Niccolò Jommelli – ''Demofoonte''
* Domingo Terradellas – ''Merope''

Publications

*Francesco Geminiani – ''Pièces de clavecin tirées des differens ouvrages de Mr F. Geminiani adaptées par luy même'' (arrangements, mostly from Opp. 1 and 4)
* Maurice Greene – 40 Select Anthems in Score
*Louis-Gabriel Guillemain – ''6 Sonates en quatuors, ou conversations galantes'', for flute, violin, viola da gamba, and basso continuo, Op. 12 (Paris)
* Jean-Marie Leclair – ''Quatrième livre de sonates'', for violin (two alternatively for flute) and basso continuo, Op. 9 (Paris)
* Giovanni Benedetto Platti – 6 Flute Sonatas, Op. 3 (Nuremberg)
* Giuseppe Sammartini – 12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 3 (Paris)
* Giuseppe Tartini – ''VI Sonate'', for violin and basso continuo, Op. 2 (Amsterdam) (two other collections were published as Op. 2, ''VI concerti a 8'' in Amsterdam, 1734, and 12 Sonatas for violin and basso continuo in Rome, 1745, but also in Paris, ca. 1747 as Op. 3)

Births

*February 19 – Luigi Boccherini, composer (died 1805)
* May 17 – Christoph Bernhard Verspoell, composer and priest (died 1818)
* May 21 – François Duval, dancer
* July 6 – Valentin Adamberger, operatic tenor (died 1804)
* July 14 – Gavrila Derzhavin, poet (died 1816)
* September 30 – Christian Ehregott Weinlig, cantor and composer (died 1813)
* October 5 – Giuseppe Gazzaniga, composer (died 1818)
* October 10 – Marie-Madeleine Guimard, ballerina (died 1816)
* November 18 – Johannes Ewald, librettist and dramatist (died 1781)
* December 7 – Johann Joachim Eschenburg, translator (died 1820)
*Date unknown
**Charles-Georges Boyer, music publisher (died c. 1806)
** George Saville Carey, librettist and entertainer (died 1807)

Deaths

* February 1 – Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni (born 1657)
* February 6 – Toussaint Bertin de la Doué, composer (born 1680)
* February 7 – Lodovico Giustini, composer (born 1685)
* March 9 – Jean-Baptiste de Lully, son of Jean-Baptiste Lully (born 1665)
* March 16 – Jean-Baptiste Matho, composer (born 1663)
* April 20 – Alexandre-François Desportes, copyist and painter (born 1661)
* July 12 – Johann Bernhard Bach (the younger), organist and composer (born 1700)
* August 13 – Johann Elias Schlegel, librettist and poet (born 1719)
* September 14 – Georg von Bertouch, composer (born 1668)
* October 5 – Henry Carey, poet, dramatist, songwriter and theatrical composer, suicide (born 1687)

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