1745 in music
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Events
- April 16 Johann Sebastian Bach revives the anonymous St Luke Passion BWV 246 (BC D 6a) with an additional chorale by Bach himself at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
- Thomas Arne enlarges the orchestra at Vauxhall Gardens, taking on John Hebden as principal cellist and bassoonist.
- Giovanni Battista Pescetti returns to Venice and becomes Second Organist at St Mark's Basilica.
- After 1745 Bach performs the Passion cantata pastiche Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt (BC D 10).
Classical music
- George Frideric Handel – Hercules (oratorio)
Opera
- Ferdinando Bertoni – La vedova accorta
- George Frideric Handel – Comus (based on the masque by John Milton)
- Jean-Philippe Rameau – Platée
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Les Muses galantes
- Georg Christoph Wagenseil – Ariodante
Publications
- Louis-Antoine Dornel – Le tour du clavier sur tous les tons
Births
- February – Johann Peter Salomon, violinist, conductor and composer (died 1815)
- May 7 – Carl Stamitz, composer (died 1801)
- August 19 – Johann Ignaz Ludwig Fischer, operatic bass (died 1825)
- December 9 – Maddalena Laura Sirmen, violinist, singer and composer (died 1818)
- December 25 – Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the "Black Mozart" (died 1799)
- date unknown – Sophia Baddeley, actress and singer (died 1786)
Deaths
- February 18 – Nicola Fago, composer and music teacher (born 1677)
- March 15 – Michel de la Barre, flautist and composer (born c.1675)
- April 27 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, composer (born 1677)
- May 9 – Tomaso Antonio Vitali, violinist and composer (born 1663)
- June 25 – Johann Wilhelm Drese, composer (born 1677)
- June 28 – Antoine Forqueray, viola da gamba player and composer (born 1672)
- October 24 – Antonio Veracini, violinist and composer (born 1659)
- December 6 – Christoph Förster, composer (born 1693)
- December 23 – Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer (born 1679)
- date unknown – Charles Coffey, dramatist and composer