Music year 1754

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Music year 1754
Baldassare Galuppi	François-Joseph Gossec

Events

Opera

First edition of the libretto for Hasse's Artemisia from 1755

February 5th : The Opera seria Artemisia by Johann Adolph Hasse based on a libretto by Giovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca is premiered in the Opera House at the Zwinger in Dresden.
June 19 : Wilhelmine von Bayreuth has her brother Friedrich the Great premiered the opera L'Huomo in the Margravial Opera House on the occasion of his visit to Bayreuth . The Italian-sung Festa Teatrale was composed by Andrea Bernasconi , the libretto was written by the Margravine in French ( L'homme ), and it was translated into Italian by the court poet Luigi Stampiglia. Wilhelmine was inspired to the allegorical-philosophical plot by Zarathustra's system .
Summer: The opera Il trionfo della fedeltá by Maria Antonia von Bayern is premiered in Dresden.
September 24th : Le cinesi , an opera buffa in one act by Christoph Willibald Gluck based on the libretto by Pietro Metastasio , is premiered on his estate Schloss Hof as part of a festival given by Joseph Friedrich von Sachsen-Hildburghausen in honor of Empress Maria Theresa .

October 12 : To celebrate the birth of the Dauphin , later Louis XVI. , Jean-Philippe Rameau's one-act play (“acte de ballet”) La Naissance d'Osiris is premiered in Fontainebleau ; the libretto was by Louis de Cahusac . The premiere of Rameau's and Cahusac's one-act play Anacréon will follow on October 23, also in Fontainebleau .

October 26 : Baldassare Galuppi's opera Il filosofo di campagna is premiered in Venice.

November 10th : The world premiere of the musical drama L'Issipile by Ignaz Holzbauer takes place in Mannheim.

Autumn: The traveling opera Girolamo Bon performed in Frankfurt am Main until 1755 .

Vincenzo Lenzenio Ciampis (article in English Wikipedia) opera Didone abbandonata based on the libretto by Pietro Metastasio has its world premiere in London.

The composer Niccolò Piccinni makes his debut at the Teatro dei Fiorentini in Naples with his first opera buffa Le Donne dispettose .

Instrumental music

Michael Christian Festing - Violin Sonatas (published posthumously)
François-Joseph Gossec - Symphony No. 1
Pietro Locatelli - La foresta incantata (Ballet)
Pietro Domenico Paradisi - 12 sonata di gravicembalo

Publications

Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg publishes the second part of his music theory textbook Abhandlung von der Fuge .
Publication of Giuseppe Tartini 's treatise Trattato di musica secondo la vera scienza dell'armonia .

Others

The composer Christoph Graupner loses his sight.
Giovanni Paisiello goes to the Conservatorio di S. Onofrio in Naples, where he studies under Francesco Durante .
Moses Mendelsohn meets Gotthold Ephraim Lessing for the first time .

Born

March 15 : Silvestro Palma , Italian composer († 1834 )
April 9 : Antonín František Bečvařovský , Czech organist, pianist and composer († 1823 )

May 2 : Vicente Martín y Soler , Spanish composer († 1806 )
May 12 : Franz Anton Hoffmeister , German composer and music publisher († 1812 )

July 31 : Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Herrosee , German hymn poet († 1821 )

August 28 (baptized): Peter von Winter , German composer, singing teacher and Kapellmeister († 1825 )

September 25 : Luigi Caruso , Italian classical composer and conductor († 1823 )

December 9 : Étienne Ozi , French bassoonist and composer († 1813 )
December 20 : Joseph Schubert , German violinist, violist and composer († 1837 )

Johann Christoph Kaffka , German composer, violinist and opera singer († 1815 )

Died

February 21 : Johann Jakob Schnell , German composer (* 1687 )
April 5 : Diamante Maria Scarabelli , Italian opera singer (* 1675 )
April 19 : Ferdinando Antonio Lazzari , Italian organist and composer (* 1678 )

May 16 : Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari , Italian composer and conductor (* 1677 )
June 22nd : Nicolas Siret , French organist, harpsichordist and composer (* 1663 )