1746 in music

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See also: 1745 in music, other events of 1746, 1747 in music, list of years in music.

Contents

1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Opera 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• Elias Gottlieb Haussmann completes his famous portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach

Classical music

• Occasional Oratorio by George Frideric Handel, with words by Newburgh Hamilton

Opera

• Neptune and Amphitrite by Thomas Arne

Births

• June 3 (probable) - James Hook, composer
• November 15 - Joseph Quesnel, composer

Deaths

• May 15 - Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, composer
• unknown date - Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer, composer

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