# 1737 in music
## Events

* April – George Frideric Handel suffers a probable stroke, resulting in the temporary paralysis of his right arm.
* November 4 – Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, inaugurated with a performance of Domenico Sarro's Achille in Sciro.
* William Boyce conducts the Three Choirs Festival

## Classical music

* Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
** Harpsichord Concerto in G major, H. 405
** Flute Sonata in E minor, H. 551
* Johann Sebastian Bach – Mass in G major, BWV 236
* Christoph Graupner – Concerto for Chalumeau, Bassoon and Cello in C major, GWV 306
* George Frideric Handel – Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline, HWV 264
* Leonardo Leo
** Cello Concerto in D major, L. 10
** Cello Concerto in A major, L. 20
** Cello Concerto in F minor, L. 40
* Nicola Porpora – Il Gedeone (sacred oratorio)
* Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel – Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe, H. 342
* Jan Dismas Zelenka
** Requiem, ZWV 45 (attribution is contested)
** 6 Ave Regina Coelorum, ZWV 128
** Il diamante, ZWV 177

## Opera

* Domenico Alberti – Endimione
* Giovanni Bononcini – Zenobia
* Riccardo Broschi – Merope
* George Frideric Handel
** Arminio (first performed, composed in 1736))
** Giustino, HWV 37 (first performed, composed in 1736)
** Berenice, HWV 38 (completed, first performed)
** Faramondo, HWV 39 (composed, first performed 1738)
* Johann Adolph Hasse – Asteria
* John Frederick Lampe and Henry Carey – The Dragon of Wantley
* Leonardo Leo
** L'Olimpiade
** Siface
* Jean-Philippe Rameau – Castor et Pollux
* Nicola Antonio Porpora – Lucio Papirio
* Domenico Sarro – Achille in Sciro
* Antonio Vivaldi
** Catone In Utica
** Oracolo in Messenia, RV 726

## Publications

* Joseph Bodin de Boismortier – 9 Sonatas and Chaconne, Op. 66
* Nicolas Chédeville – Il Pastor Fido Sonatas (originally attributed to Vivaldi as his Op. 13)
* Michel Corrette – Premier Livre d’Orgue, Op. 16
* Charles Dollé – Pièces de viole, Op. 2
* Giovanni Battista Ferrandini – 6 Sonatas, Op. 2
* Charles-Joseph van Helmont – Pièces de Clavecin, Op. 1
* Jean-Marie Leclair
** 6 Violin Concertos, Op. 7
** Deuxième recréation de musique d’une execution facile, Op. 8 (Paris)
* Pietro Locatelli – 12 Sonate da camera, Op. 6
* Il Maestro di Musica – Pasticcio with music by Pietro Auletta, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Alessandro Parisotti
* Ohrenvergnügendes und gemütergötzendes Tafelkonfekt, Augsburg. (includes works by Valentin Rathgeber)

## Methods and theory writings

* Carl Johann Friedrich Haltmeier – Anleitung zum Transponieren
* Jacques Hotteterre – Méthode pour la musette, Op. 10
* David Kellner – Treulicher Unterricht im General-Baß
* John Frederick Lampe – A Plain and Compendious Method of Teaching Thorough Bass
* Johann Mattheson – Kern Melodischer Wissenschafft
* Jean-Phillipe Rameau – Génération harmonique, ou Traité de musique théorique et pratique
* Johann Adolph Scheibe – Der critische Musicus

## Births

* January 3 – Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg, poet and librettist (died 1823)
* January 19 – Giuseppe Millico, castrato singer, composer and music teacher (died 1802)
* March 9 – Josef Mysliveček, composer (died 1781)
* April 10 – François Giroust (died 1799)
* September 14 – Michael Haydn, composer (died 1806)
* September 21 – Francis Hopkinson (died 1791)
* November 25 – Christian Friedrich Penzel (died 1801)
* date unknown
** William Paxton, cellist and composer (died 1781)
** Frederick Charles Reinhold, operatic bass (died 1815)
** Marguerite Morel, Ballerina, actress and singer.

## Deaths

* February 12 – Benjamin Schmolck, Lutheran hymn-writer (born 1672)
* September 22
** Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, composer (born 1667)
** Francesco Mancini, composer and music teacher (born 1672)
* December 18 – Antonio Stradivari, violin-maker (born 1644)