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See also: 1749 in music, other events of 1750, 1751 in music, list of years in music. See also: 1748 in music, other events of 1749, 1750 in music, list of years in music. ... Events March 2 - Small earthquake in London April 4 - Small earthquake in Warrington, England August 23 - Small earthquake in Spalding, England September 30 - Small earthquake in Northampton, England November 16 – Westminster Bridge officially opened Jonas Hanway is the first Englishman to use an umbrella James Gray reveals her sex to... See also: 1750 in music, other events of 1751, 1752 in music, list of years in music. ... This page indexes the individual year in music pages. ...

1 Events
2 Classical music
3 Opera
4 Births
5 Deaths

Events

Farinelli is knighted by King Ferdinand VI of Spain.

Farinelli (January 24, 1705-July 15, 1782), whose real name was Carlo Broschi, was one of the most famous Italian soprano castrato singers of the 18th century. ... Ferdinand VI, (September 23, 1713 - August 10, 1759), king of Spain from 1746 until his death, second son of Philip V, founder of the Spanish Bourbon dynasty (as opposed to the French Bourbons), by his first marriage with Maria Louisa of Savoy, was born at Madrid on September 23 1713. ...

Classical music

Leopold Mozart - Partita for Violin, Cello and Double Bass "Frog"

Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (November 14, 1719 – May 28, 1787) was a composer, music teacher and violinist. ...

Opera

Il filosofo convinto in amore – Johann Friedrich Agricola

Johann Friedrich Agricola (January 4, 1720–December 2, 1774) was a German composer, organist, singer, teacher and writer on music. ...

Births

August 18 – Antonio Salieri, composer
(probable) – Anton Stamitz, composer
(probable) – Antonio Rosetti, composer

August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Antonio Salieri Antonio Salieri (August 18, 1750 – May 7, 1825), born in Legnago, Italy, was a composer and conductor as well as one of the most important and famous musicians of his time. ... Antonio Rosetti (c1750–1792) was a classical era composer, writing around the same time as Haydn and Mozart. ...

Deaths

June 2 – Johann Valentin Rathgeber, composer
July 28 – Johann Sebastian Bach, composer
October 3 – Georg Matthias Monn, composer
October 16 – Sylvius Leopold Weiss, lutenist and composer

Categories: 1750 | Years in music 2 June is the 153rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (154th in leap years), with 212 days remaining. ... July 28 is the 209th day (210th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 156 days remaining. ... Johann Sebastian Bach, 1748 portrait by Elias Gottlob Haussmann Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685 (O.S.) – July 28, 1750 (N.S.))[1] was a German composer and organist of the Baroque period, and is universally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. ... October 3 is the 276th day of the year (277th in Leap years). ... October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in Leap years). ... Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687 - October 16, 1750) was a German composer and lutenist. ...

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BAROQUE MUSIC DEFINED (1870 words)
	Later, during the early-to-mid 1900s, the term baroque was applied by association to music of the 17th and early 18th century, and today the term baroque has come to refer to a very clearly definable type or genre of music which originated, broadly speaking, around 1600 and came to fruition between 1700 and 1750.
	Every period in music has certain recognizable clichés, and much of what is typical in baroque music, specific cadences and snatches of melody, can be traced back to one Arcangelo Corelli, who seems to have influenced just about everybody, from his Italian contemporaries and students to Handel who sojourned in Rome from 1704 to 1710.
	Many a composer's fortunes rose or fell with the status accorded to music at the court in which he was serving, and composer-musicians would try to seek a position in a city or court where music was known, for the time being anyway, to be thriving under the patronage of an enthusiastic king or prince.

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