# 1746 in music
## Events

* April 8 Johann Sebastian Bach performs a copy he made of the Brockes Passion HWV 48 of George Frideric Handel at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.
* Elias Gottlob Haussmann completes his famous portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach
* 1746–1747 Bach adds two Chorale preludes (BWV 664 and 665) to his manuscript of the Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes.

## Classical music

* Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
** Harpsichord Concerto in A major, H.422
** Harpsichord Concerto in C major, H.423
** Viola da Gamba Sonata in D major, H.559
* Johann Sebastian Bach
** Sechs Choräle von verschiedener Art
** Canon in G major, BWV 1076
* Francesco Feo – S. Francesco di Sales (sacred oratorio) first performed
* Francesco Geminiani
** 6 Cello Sonatas, Op. 5
** 6 Concertos, Op.7
* Christoph Willibald Gluck – 6 Trio Sonatas, Wq.53
* Christoph Graupner – Ach Herr, mich armen Suender (cantata)
* Joannes de Gruytters – his carillon book.
* George Frideric Handel
** Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62 with words by Newburgh Hamilton
** Concerto in D major, HWV 335a (contributed to the Music for the Royal Fireworks)
* Niccolò Pasquali – Sonatas for two cellos
* Giovanni Benedetto Platti – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas, Op. 4 (parts of which have been attributed to Benedetto Marcello)
* Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer – Pièces de clavecin
* Rudolf Straube – 2 Lute Sonatas
* Giuseppe Tartini – 3 Violin Concertos, Libro 1

## Popular music

* From Scourging Rebellion by George Frideric Handel

## Opera

* Andrea Adolfati – La pace fra la virtù e la bellezza
* Thomas Arne – Neptune and Amphitrite
* Matteo Capranica – Alcibiade
* Carl Heinrich Graun – Demofoonte, GraunWV B:I:13
* Niccolò Jommelli – Didone abbandonata
* Jean-Marie Leclair – Scylla et Glaucus

## Publications

* Burke Thumoth – 12 English and 12 Irish Airs with Variations (London: J. Simpson)
* Anonymous – The Compleat Tutor for the French Horn (London: John Simpson)

## Methods and theory writings

* William Tans'ur – A New Musical Grammar

## Births

* January 11 – František Adam Míča, Czech composer (died 1811)
* January 23 – Pierre-Ulric Dubuisson, translator and actor (died 1794)
* February 13 – Giuseppe Maria Cambini, Italian composer (died 1825)
* April 4 – Alexandre-Louis Robineau, librettist (died 1823)
* June 2– Wilhelm Cramer, composer and violinist (died 1799)
* June 3 (probable) – James Hook (composer), composer (died 1827)
* June 29 – Joachim Heinrich Campe, German librettist (died 1818)
* July 2 – Hartenack Otto Conrad Zinck, Danish composer (died 1832)
* August 21 – Ignaz Umlauf, Austrian composer (died 1796)
* September 3 – Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter, librettist and poet (died 1797)
* September 20 – Christian Benjamin Uber, German composer (died 1812)
* September 26 – Giovanni Punto, composer and horn player (died 1803)
* October 4 – Domenico Corri, Italian composer (died 1825)
* October 7 – William Billings, American composer (died 1800)
* October 12 – Emerico Lobo de Mesquita, composer and collaborator (died 1805)
* October 22 – Hector Macneill, librettist and poet (died 1818)
* November 15 – Joseph Quesnel, composer (died 1809)
* December 19 – Venanzio Rauzzini, collector and opera singer (died 1810)
* December 21 – Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty, librettist and poet (died 1776)
* unknown date - Avdotya Mikhaylova, opera singer (died 1807)

## Deaths

* March 16 – Jean Baptiste Matho, French composer (born 1663)
* March 30 – Jean-Joseph Fiocco, composer (b. 1686)
* May 15 – Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, composer
* August 27 – Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, German composer
* October 14 – Domenico Alberti, Italian composer (born c. 1700)
* December 6 – Grizel Baillie, librettist and composer (born 1665)
* December 10 – Teodorico Pedrini, priest, musician and composer (b. 1671)
* unknown date – Jean-Baptiste Malter, dancer (b. 1701)