1741 in music
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[edit] Events
- November 25 – Marguerite-Antoinette Couperin, the first female court musician at the French court, sells her official post to Bernard de Bury.
- Johann Friedrich Agricola arrives in Berlin to study musical composition under Johann Joachim Quantz.
- Antonio Vivaldi leaves Venice for Vienna, but dies shortly after his arrival.
- 19-year-old Jiří Antonín Benda is given the post of second violinist at the Berlin court of King Frederick II of Prussia.
- William Hogarth produces an engraving entitled The Enraged Musician.
[edit] Classical music
- Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations published.
- George Frideric Handel: Messiah composed.
- Jean-Philippe Rameau: Pieces de Clavecin en Concerts published.
[edit] Opera
- Tomaso Albinoni – Artamene
- Christoph Willibald Gluck – Artaserse
- Giovanni Battista Lampugnani – Arsace
[edit] Births
- February 8 – André Grétry, composer (died 1813)
- February 9 – Henri-Joseph Rigel, composer (died 1799)
- May 23 – Andrea Luchesi, composer (died 1801)
- July 17 – Suzette Defoye, opera singer and ballerina
- July 27 – François-Hippolyte Barthélémon, violinist and composer (died 1808)
- August 31 – Jean Paul Egide Martini, composer (died 1816)
- September 25 – Wenzel Pichl, singer, violinist and composer (died 1805)
- date unknown
- Franz Xaver Hammer, gambist, cellist and composer (died 1817)
- Anna Brita Wendelius, singer and member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music (died 1804).
[edit] Deaths
- January 5 – Ann Turner Robinson, English soprano
- February 13 – Johann Fux, composer and theorist (born 1660)
- June 21 – Joseph-Hector Fiocco, Flemish violinist and composer (born 1703)
- July 28 – Antonio Vivaldi, composer (born 1678)
- August – David Owen, Welsh harpist (born 1712)
- August 24 – Gabriel-Vincent Thévenard, French operatic baritone (born 1669)
- September 7 – Henri Desmarets, French composer of sacred music (born 1661)
- probable – Francesco Scarlatti, composer (born 1666)
