1733 in music

Events

Susannah Maria Arne makes her stage début in the first opera written by her brother, Thomas.
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach is appointed organist of St Sophia's Church, Dresden.
Jean-Marie Leclair becomes musical director to King Louis XV of France.
Charles Theodore Pachelbel settles in Boston, Massachusetts.

Publications

Pietro Locatelli - L'Arte del Violino

Published popular music

Orpheus caledonius: or, A collection of Scots songs - William Thomson

Classical music

Johann Sebastian Bach - Mass in B minor (short version)
Francesco Geminiani - Concerti grossi, Op. 3
Pietro Locatelli - Arte del violino
Benedetto Marcello - Il pianto e il riso delle quattro stagioni (oratorio)

Opera

Francisco António de Almeida - La pazienza di Socrate
Thomas Arne - Rosamund
George Frideric Handel - Orlando
John Frederick Lampe - Dione
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi - La serva padrona (intermezzo)
Jean-Philippe Rameau - Hippolyte et Aricie

Births

January 17 -Thomas Linley the elder (died 1795)
October 28 - Franz Ignaz von Beecke (died 1803)
date unknown - Gottfried van Swieten, collaborator of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven

Deaths

February 26 - Johann Adam Birkenstock, violinist and composer (born 1687)
May 18 - Georg Böhm, organist (born 1661)
July 2 - Christian Petzold, organist and composer (born 1677)
September 12 - François Couperin (born 1668)

Translation of "1733 in music"

Polish: 1733 w muzyce, Portuguese: 1733 na música.