Music year 1753
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Overview of the music years
Further events
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The Cuvilliés Theater in Munich opens. |
Events
World premieres
- January 8th : The world premiere of the opera Attilio Regolo by Niccolò Jommelli based on the libretto by Pietro Metastasio takes place at the Teatro delle Dame in Rome.
- January 9th : The Pastorale héroïque Titon et l'Aurore of Mondonville is premiered in Paris. It becomes one of the most successful stage works by the composer, who takes the side of French music in the Buffonist dispute.
- February 5th : Johann Adolph Hasse's Solimano based on a libretto by Giovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca is premiered in a splendid and well-received performance at the Hoftheater in Dresden. Angelo Amorevoli sings the title role , two other leading roles are occupied by Teresa Albuzzi-Todeschini and Giuseppe Belli . The famous Giuseppe Galli da Bibiena is responsible for the set design and equipment . The opera is sold out until the twelfth performance. Migliavacca later wrote another version of the Solimano libretto .
- May 31 : The libretto L'isola disabitata by Pietro Metastasio is set to music by Giuseppe Bonno on the occasion of the name day of King Ferdinand VI. first performed by Spain in Aranjuez. The idea for the work comes from the singer Farinelli, who is a friend of Metastasio . Metastasio regards it as one of his most successful works.
- October 29 : In Fontainebleau is Daphnis et Egle , a Pastoral héroïque in an act of Jean-Philippe Rameau with a libretto by Charles Collé listed. Rameau's one-act play (“acte de ballet”) Les Sybarites on a libretto by Jean-François Marmontel will also have its world premiere there on November 13th .
- November 19 : The world premiere of the opera La Fête de Cythère by Michel Blavet takes place in the Château de Berny .
Textbooks
- The first part of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's musical textbook, An attempt on the true way of playing the piano, appears.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg publishes the first part of his music theory textbook Abhandlung von der Fuge .
Theater openings
- June 15 : The Schwetzingen Castle Theater opens with Ignaz Holzbauer's opera Il figlio delle selve .
- October 12 : The Cuvilliés Theater in Munich opens with the opera Catone in Utica by the Italian composer and electoral chamber music director Giovanni Battista Ferrandini .
- The Teatro Carignano in Turin opens.
Born
- January 9 : Luísa Todi , Portuguese opera singer († 1833 )
- June 8 : Nicolas Dalayrac , French composer († 1809)
- September 11th : Friedrich August Baumbach , German composer and Freemason († 1813 )
- September 29 : Johann Gottfriedschicht , German composer, Gewandhauskapellmeister and Thomaskantor († 1823 )
- October 4 : Anna Heinel , German dancer († 1808 )
- October 14 : Franz Anton Dimmler , German composer and classical instrumental musician († 1827 )
- October 14 : Johann Christian Firnhaber , German musician, composer, pianist, piano teacher and music dealer († 1828 )
- November 6th : Jean-Baptiste Bréval , French cellist and composer († 1823)
- November 22nd : Jean Arnold Antoine Tuerlinckx , Belgian musical instrument maker († 1827 )
- November 30th : Johann Baptist Schenk , Austrian composer († 1836)
- December 10 : Melchior Ludolf Herold , German hymn composer and priest († 1810 )
- December 28 : Johan Wikmansson , Swedish composer († 1800 )
- Johann Georg Bäßler , German Reformed church musician and composer († 1807 )
Died
- February 7 : Giovanni Alberto Ristori , Italian composer (* 1692 )
- February 16 : Giacomo Facco , Venetian violinist, conductor and composer (* 1676 )
- March 8 : Friedrich Maximilian von Lersner , German librettist and mayor (* 1697 )
- May 19 : Jacques Aubert , French violinist and composer (* 1689 )
- July 18 : Johann Dietrich Busch , German organ builder (* 1700 )
- 4th August : Gottfried Silbermann , German organ builder (* 1683 )
- August 28 : Francesco Paolo Supriano , Neapolitan cellist and composer (* 1678 )
- September 24th : Georg Gebel the Younger , German composer (* 1709 )
- October 19 : Erasmus Bielfeldt , German organ builder (* 1682 )
- November: Giuseppe Valentini , Italian violinist and composer (* 1681 )
- November 4th : Johann Nikolaus Bach , German composer and organist (* 1669 )
- November 16 : Nicolas Racot de Grandval , French composer, harpsichordist and dramaturge (* 1676 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1753 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1753 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Original libretto: Titon et l'Aurore, Pastorale Héroïque, Représentée pour la Première Fois, par l'Académie Royale de Musique, Le Mardi neuf Janvier 1753 , Paris, Delormel, 1753; online in the Internet Archive