# 1748 in music
## Events

* April 12 – Possible premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's last St Mark Passion pastiche (BC D 5) at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. In addition to two movements by Bach, he incorporates seven arias from George Frideric Handel's Brockes Passion HWV 48 into the work.
* August 1748 – October 1749 – Repeat (possible concert hall) performance by Bach of Handel's Brockes Passion HWV 48 in a version by Bach.
* 1748–1749 – Johann Sebastian Bach composes his Mass in B minor BWV 232 (BC E 1).
* Holywell Music Room, Oxford, England, the first purpose-built concert hall in Europe, is opened.
* Nicola Porpora becomes Kapellmeister at Dresden.:

## Classical Music

* Johan Agrell – 6 Keyboard Sonatas, Op. 2
* Johann Sebastian Bach – 18 Chorale Preludes, BWV 651–668 finished (composed 1740–1748)
* Martin Berteau – 6 Cello Sonatas, Op. 1
* Michel Corrette
** Les Pantins (No. 17 in his 25 Concertos Comiques)
** La Tourière (No. 18 in his 25 Concertos Comiques)
* Elisabetta de Gambarini — Lessons and Songs Op. 2, for harpsichord
* George Frideric Handel
** Joshua, HWV 64, oratorio premiered, composed 1747
** Alexander Balus, HWV 65, oratorio premiered, composed 1747
** Susanna, HWV 66, oratorio composed, premiered 1749
** Solomon, HWV 67, oratorio composed, premiered 1749
* Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht
** 6 Flute Sonatas, Op. 1
** 3 Trio Sonatas, Op. 2
* Jean-Pierre Pagin - 6 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1
* Peter Pasqualino – 6 Cello Duets
* Giovanni Alberto Ristori
** Didone abbandonata (secular cantata)
** Lavinia a Turno, M.144 (secular cantata)
* Giuseppe Tartini – 6 Violin Sonatas, Op. 6
* Georg Philipp Telemann – Lukas Passion, TWV 5:33
* Burke Thumoth – 12 Irish and 12 Scotch Airs with Variations

## Opera

* Joseph Bodin de Boismortier – Daphnis et Chloé, Op. 102
* Baldassare Galuppi – Demetrio
* Christoph W. Gluck – La Semiramide riconosciuta, Wq.13
* Karl Heinrich Graun – Ifigenia in Aulide, GraunWV B:I:18
* Johann Adolf Hasse – Demofoonte
* Niccolò Jommelli – L’amore in maschera
* Gennaro Manna – Lucio Papirio dittatore
* Jean-Philippe Rameau
** Zaïs, premiered on February 29
** Pygmalion, RCT 52, premiered on August 27
** Les surprises de l'Amour, premiered on November 27

## Publications

* Johann Sebastian Bach – 6 Choräle von verschiedener Art, BWV 645-650 (Zella: Johann Georg Schübler)
* Louis de Caix d'Hervelois – Pièces de viole, Livre 5 (Paris: Madame Boivin, Le Clerc et Brolonne)
* Francesco Geminiani – Rules for Playing in a True Taste, Op. 8 (variations for solo or accompanied instrument)
* William Hayes – 6 Cantatas (London: Simpson)
* Jean-Joseph de Mondonville – Pièces de Clavecin avec voix ou violon, Op. 5
* Carlo Tessarini – Contrasto armonico … con suoi rinforzi, for 3 violins and basso continuo, Op. 10 (Paris)
* Gregor Werner — Neuer und sehr curios- Musicalischer Instrumental-Calendar

## Births

* February – Hedvig Wigert, opera singer (died 1780)
* February 5 – Christian Gottlob Neefe, conductor, teacher (Ludwig van Beethoven was a student), and composer (died 1798)
* March 5 — William Shield, violinist and composer (died 1829)
* May 5 – Francesco Azopardi, music theorist and composer (died 1809)
* April 20 – Georg Michael Telemann, composer (died 1831)
* August 4 – Maximilian Stadler, editor and composer (died 1833)
* August 11 – Joseph Schuster, composer (died 1812)
* August 31 – Jean-Étienne Despréaux, singer, dancer and composer (died 1820)
* November 30 – Joachim Albertini, composer (died 1812)

## Deaths

* January 26 – Pierre Rameau, dancing-master (born 1674)
* February 26 – Jean-Baptiste Landé, ballet dancer
* March 7 – William Corbett, violinist and composer (born 1680)
* March 10 – Giovanni Perroni, cellist and composer (born 1688)
* March 17 – Charles King, choir-master and composer (born 1687)
* March 23 — Johann Gottfried Walther, composer and theoretician (born 1684)
* April 6 – David Kellner, German composer (born c.1670)
* November 25 — Isaac Watts, hymn writer (born 1674)
* date unknown
** Jacques Loeillet, oboist and composer (born 1685)
** David Tecchler, luthier (born 1666)