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Encyclopedia > 1754 in music

See also: 1753 in music, other events of 1754, 1755 in music, list of years in music.



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Events

  • Composer Christoph Graupner loses his sight.
  • Publication of Giuseppe Tartini's treatise Trattato di musica secondo la vera scienza dell'armonia

Classical music

  • La foresta incantata (ballet) by Pietro Locatelli
  • Violin sonatas by Michael Festing (published posthumously)

Opera



Births

  • May - Franz Anton Hoffmeister
  • May 2 - Vicente Martín y Soler
  • November 30 - Ferdinand Reis, composer and friend of Beethoven

Deaths



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Music (1243 words)
Music, during the Colonial and Revolutionary War periods, may not have been as varied as it is today; but to think that the enjoyment of it was denied, throughout all the colonies, would be a mistake.
By 1754 a hall where "Vocal and instrumental Musick to consist of Select Pieces by the Masters" could be staged on a regular basis was established at the corner of Hanover and Court Streets.
Despite the small pocket of resistance toward the enjoyment of music that was found in the Quakers who had settled primarily in the colony of Pennsylvania, the people of the Middle Colonies embraced the merriment that music brought to their, oftentimes, prosaic lives.
Wikipedia: List of musical events (1292 words)
See also: Timeline of trends in music to 1899, Timeline of trends in music (1900-1949), Timeline of trends in music (1950-1959), Timeline of trends in music (1960-1969), Timeline of trends in music (1970-1979), Timeline of trends in music (1980-1989), Timeline of trends in music (1990-present)
1967 in music - The Beatles release Sgt.
1786 in music - Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro
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