1741 in music

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Events

• October 2 – The Bull's Head Musical Society opens a Music Hall in Fishamble Street, Dublin, Ireland.^[1]
• November 18 – George Frideric Handel arrives in Dublin to give a series of concerts^[2] having tried out his Messiah privately en route in Chester.
• November 25 – Marguerite-Antoinette Couperin, the first female court musician at the French court, sells her official post to Bernard de Bury.
• Johann Friedrich Agricola arrives in Berlin to study musical composition under Johann Joachim Quantz.
• Antonio Vivaldi leaves Venice for Vienna, but dies shortly after his arrival.
• 19-year-old Jiří Antonín Benda is given the post of second violinist at the Berlin court of King Frederick II of Prussia.
• William Hogarth produces an engraving entitled The Enraged Musician.

Classical music

• Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations published.
• George Frideric Handel: Messiah composed.
• Jean-Philippe Rameau: Pieces de Clavecin en Concerts published.

Opera

• Tomaso Albinoni – Artamene
• Christoph Willibald Gluck – Artaserse
• Giovanni Battista Lampugnani – Arsace

Births

• February 8 – André Grétry, composer (died 1813)
• February 9 – Henri-Joseph Rigel, composer (died 1799)
• May 23 – Andrea Luchesi, composer (died 1801)
• July 17 – Suzette Defoye, opera singer and ballerina
• July 27 – François-Hippolyte Barthélémon, violinist and composer (died 1808)
• August 31 – Jean-Paul-Égide Martini, composer (died 1816)
• September 25 – Wenzel Pichl, singer, violinist and composer (died 1805)
• date unknown
  • Franz Xaver Hammer, gambist, cellist and composer (died 1817)
  • Anna Brita Wendelius, singer and member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music (died 1804).

Deaths

• January 5 – Ann Turner Robinson, English soprano
• February 13 – Johann Fux, composer and theorist (born 1660)
• June 21 – Joseph-Hector Fiocco, Flemish violinist and composer (born 1703)
• July 28 – Antonio Vivaldi, composer (born 1678)
• August – David Owen, Welsh harpist (born 1712)
• August 24 – Gabriel-Vincent Thévenard, French operatic baritone (born 1669)
• September 7 – Henri Desmarets, French composer of sacred music (born 1661)
• probable – Francesco Scarlatti, composer (born 1666)

References

1. de Courcy, J.W. (1996). The Liffey in Dublin. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. p. 468. ISBN 0-7171-2423-1.
2. Burrows, Donald (2004). "Handel, George Frideric (1685–1759)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online (October 2007) ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12192. Retrieved 2013-02-26. (subscription or UK public library membership required)