1746 in music

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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 Gottlieb 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

• Johann Sebastian Bach – Sechs Choräle von verschiedener Art
• George Frideric Handel – Occasional Oratorio, with words by Newburgh Hamilton

Opera

• Andrea Adolfati – La pace fra la virtù e la bellezza
• Thomas Arne – Neptune and Amphitrite
• Matteo Capranica – Alcibiade
• Jean-Marie Leclair – Scylla et Glaucus

Births

• June 3 (probable) – James Hook (composer), composer (died 1827)
• November 15 – Joseph Quesnel, composer (died 1809)

Deaths

• March 30 – Jean-Joseph Fiocco, composer (b. 1686)
• May 15 – Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, composer
• August 27 – Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, composer
• December 10 – Teodorico Pedrini, priest, musician and composer (b. 1671)
• unknown date – Jean-Baptiste Malter, dancer (b. 1701)