# 1744 in music
## Events

* March 27 Johann Sebastian Bach revives his St Mark Passion with some textual changes and two new arias inserted at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.
* Castrato Giovanni Carestini goes to work for Maria Theresa of Austria.

## Classical music

* Nicola Porpora
** Laetatus sum (Psalm 121)
** De profundis (Psalm 129)
** Placida surge aurora
* Thomas Arne
** The Death of Abel (oratorio)
** Judith (first performed, published 1761)
* Johann Sebastian Bach – Das wohltemperierte Klavier, part 2
* Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
** Keyboard Sonata in E major, H.39
** Harpsichord Concerto in F major, H.415
** Harpsichord Concerto in E major, H.417
* Michele Blavet – Premier recueil de pieces
* Michael Christian Festing – 6 Violin Sonatas, Op.7
* Christoph Graupner
** Trio Sonata in C minor, GWV 203
** Trio Sonata in D major, GWV 204
** Sonata in G major, GWV 212
** Trio Sonata in B minor, GWV 219
** Concerto for 2 Flutes in E minor, GWV 322
** Concerto for 2 Horns in G major, GWV 332
** Bassoon Concerto in B-flat major, GWV 340
* Johann Adolph Hasse – 6 Flute Sonatas, Op. 5
* Johann Ludwig Krebs
** Clavier-Übung I, Krebs-WV 500-512
** Clavier-Übung II, Krebs-WV 800
** Clavier-Übung III, Krebs-WV 801-806
* Etienne Mangean – 6 Sonatas for 2 Violins, Op. 3
* Niccolò Pasquali – 6 Sonatas for Violin, Op. 1
* John Frederick Ranish – 12 Flute Sonatas, Op. 2
* Johan Helmich Roman – Drottningholm Music (Music for a Royal Wedding)
* Domenico Natale Sarro – Recorder Sonata in F major
* Georg Phillip Telemann – Jauchzet, ihr Himmel, TWV 1:957
* Francesco Maria Veracini
** L'errore di Salomone (oratorio)
** 12 Sonate accademiche, Op. 2 (for violin)
* Jan Dismas Zelenka
** Litaniae Lauretanae, ZWV 151
** Litaniae Lauretanae, ZWV 152

## Opera

* Daniele Dal Barba – Il Tigrane
* Christoph Willibald Gluck
** La Sofonisba, Wq.5
** Ipermestra, Wq. 7
* George Frideric Handel – Semele
* Johann Adolph Hasse
** Antigono
** Semiramide riconosciuta
* John Frederick Lampe – The Kiss Accepted and Returned

## Publications

* Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas, Wq.49 (Nuremberg: Johann Ulrich Haffner) (composed 1742-44)
* Delphin Strungk (some copies were made in this year, though the composer died in 1694)
** Lass mich dein sein und bleiben
** Meine Seele erhebt den Herren

## Methods and theory writings

* Johan Daniel Berlin – Musicaliske Elementer (Trondheim: Jens Christ)

## Births

* May 3 – Friedrich Wilhelm Weis, composer
* May 4 – Marianna Martines, singer, pianist and composer (d. 1812)
* May 18 – Joseph Beer, composer and clarinetist (died 1812)
* May 19 – Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, regular patron of Mozart's (died 1818)
* August 4 – Julije Bajamonti (died 1800)
* August 25 – Johann Gottfried Herder, librettist and philosopher (died 1803)
* November 26 – Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff (died 1785)
* December 8 – Pierre-Joseph Candeille, French composer (died 1827)
* date unknown
** Marie Barch, first native Danish ballerina (d. 1827)
** Gaetano Brunetti, Italian composer (died 1798)
** Francesco Petrini, composer and musician (died 1819)
** Charles le Picq, French dancer and choreographer (d. 1806)

## Deaths

* January 14 – Charles-Hubert Gervais, composer (born 1671)
* January 20 – Richard Jones, violinist and composer
* February 15 – František Václav Míča, conductor and composer (born 1694)
* March 22 – Georg Lenck, German musician (born 1685)
* April 26 – Domenico Sarro, Italian composer (born 1679)
* May 9 – Johann Samuel Beyer (born 1669)
* May 30 – Alexander Pope, English poet (born 1688)
* June 29 – André Campra, composer (born 1660)
* August 19 – Carlo Arrigoni (born 1697)
* October 17 – Giuseppe Guarneri, violin-maker (born 1698)
* October 23 – Pierre-Charles Roy, librettist and poet (born 1683)
* October 31 – Leonardo Leo, composer (born 1694)
* December 29 – Pompeo Cannicciari (born 1670)
* date unknown
** Claude Balon, dancer and choreographer
** Gennaro Antonio Federico, Italian librettist
** James Miller, librettist and playwright (born 1704)
** Francesca Vanini-Boschi, operatic contralto