1747 in music

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Events

April 30 – Possible premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's last St Mark Passion pastiche (BC D 5) at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig. In addition to two movements by Bach, he incorporates seven arias from George Frideric Handel's Brockes Passion HWV 48 into the work.^{[dubious – discuss]}
October 4 – Schlosstheater Schönbrunn opens.
Johann Sebastian Bach is presented to King Frederick II of Prussia in Potsdam; the king plays a theme for Bach and challenges the musician to improvise a six-part fugue based on it.
Luigi Boccherini goes to Rome to study the cello.

Maria Teresa Agnesi – Il restauro d'Arcadia (cantata)
Antoine Forqueray – Pièces de viole mises en pièces de clavecin (posthumously published)
George Frideric Handel – Judas Maccabeus (oratorio)
Jean-Philippe Rameau – La Dauphine (harpsichord piece).

March 29 – Johann Wilhelm Hässler, German organist and composer (died 1822)
March 31 – Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, musician and composer (died 1800)
June 26 – Leopold Kozeluch, prolific composer and teacher (died 1818)
July 23 – Faustino Arévalo, hymnographer (died 1824)
November 29 – Giovanni Mane Giornovichi, violinist and composer (died 1804)
date unknown
- Narciso Casanovas, Spanish monk and composer
- Michael Ehregott Grose, Danish organist and composer (died 1795)
- François Tourte, maker of violin bows (died 1835)