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Overview of the events of 1733 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1733.
Events
July 2 –
Johann Sebastian Bach performs a revised version of his
Magnificat in D major, BWV 243 , ending the mourning period for
Augustus II the Strong , Elector of Saxony and King of Poland.
July 10 –
George Frideric Handel premieres his English-language oratorio
Athalia at the
University of Oxford 's
Sheldonian Theatre .
First opera staged at the
Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù , Aurelio Aureli’s (librettist) Gerone, tiranno di Siracusa , probably the version with music by
Johann Adolph Hasse , premiered in Naples in 1727.
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach is appointed organist of the
Sophienkirche ,
Dresden .
Beginning date of the
William Dixon manuscript of music for the
Border pipes , the oldest known surviving manuscript of pipe music from the British Isles.
Jean-Marie Leclair becomes musical director to King
Louis XV of France .
Charles Theodore Pachelbel settles in Boston, Massachusetts.
After 1733 – Johann Sebastian Bach makes the Leipzig premiere of the Passion cantata Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld by
Carl Heinrich Graun .
Publications
Paolo Benedetto Bellinzani – Madrigali a due, a tre, quattro, e cinque voci , Op. 6
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier – 6 Flute Sonatas, Op. 44
Michel Corrette – 6 Concertos Comiques, Op. 8
Pierre Dandrieu – Noëls, O filii, chansons de Saint-Jacques, Stabat mater, et carillons
Willem de Fesch
10 Trio Sonatas, Op. 7
6 Cello Sonatas, Op. 8b
François Francœur – 12 Violin Sonatas
Francesco Geminiani – Concerti grossi , Op. 3
George Frideric Handel
Suites de Pièces , HWV 434–442
Trio Sonatas, Op. 2 HWV 386–394
Water Music , HWV 348–350 (composed c.
1717 )
Georg Friedrich Kauffmann – Harmonische Seelenlust (first volumes, not completed until 1736)
Pietro Locatelli –
L'arte del violino: XII concerti, cioè violino solo, con XXIV capricci ad libitum , Op. 3 (Amsterdam: Le Cene)
Georg Philipp Telemann
Alexandre de Villeneuve
Conversations en manière de sonates , solo sonatas, Op. 1 (Paris)
Conversations en manière de sonates , trio sonatas, Op. 2 (Paris)
Published popular music
Classical music
Opera
Methods and Theory Writings
Births
Deaths