Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of
1749 Record

Births

May: ELISABETH SOLIGNY = French ballerina and ballet mistress = [died: ?]
5 May: JEAN-FRÉDÉRIC EDELMANN = French composer = [died: 1794
15 June: GEORG JOSEPH VOGLER (known as ABBÉ VOGLER) = German composer, teacher and theorist = [died: 1814]
17 December: DOMENICO CIMAROSA = Italian composer = [died: 1801]

Timeline of Events

4 March: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH revives (for the last time under his leadership) his St John Passion BWV 245 (BC D 2d) with some textual and instrumentational changes at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig. In it, he uses the contrabassoon for the first time (as a continuo instrument).
17 March: GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL's oratorio Solomon first performed, at the Theatre Royal in London.
27 April: The first official performance of HANDEL's Music for the Royal Fireworks, in London, finishes early due to the outbreak of fire.
1749–1750: BACH revises his The Art of Fugue BWV 1080, but the project will be left incomplete by his death and published in 1751 by his son CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH in Berlin.