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Events
- January 10 - King Louis XV of France banishes Eustachio Bambini and his Italian opera company from Paris.[1]
- May 1 - George Frideric Handel plays the organ in public for the last time, at the Foundling Hospital, London.[1]
- June 15 - Schlosstheater Schwetzingen in Schwetzingen Palace, Baden-Württemberg, designed by Nicolas de Pigage, is inaugurated with a performance of Ignaz Holzbauer's opera Il figlio delle selve.[2]
- October 12 - Cuvilliés Theatre in the Munich Residenz, Bavaria, designed by François de Cuvilliés, is inaugurated with a performance of Ferrandini's opera Catone in Utica.[3]
- November 21 - Niccolò Jommelli is appointed music director and Oberkapellmeister to Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, at Stuttgart.[1]
- Teatro Carignano in Turin is inaugurated with a performance of Baldassare Galuppi's opera Calamità de' cuori.
- Grand Théâtre in Antwerp is inaugurated.
Publications
Classical music
Opera
Births
Deaths
- February 7 - Giovanni Alberto Ristori, opera composer and conductor, 60
- February 16 – Giacomo Facco, violinist, conductor and composer, 77
- May 19 – Jacques Aubert, composer, 63
- August 4 – Gottfried Silbermann, German constructor of keyboard instruments, 70
- September 24 – Georg Gebel (the younger), composer, 43
- November - Giuseppe Valentini, violinist, painter, poet, and composer, 71
- November 4 - Johann Nicolaus Bach, organist and composer, eldest son of Johann Christoph Bach, 84
- November 16 - Nicolas Racot de Grandval, harpsichordist and composer, 77
- unknown date - John Holt, bell-ringer and composer, 27
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 MusicAndHistory:1753 Accessed 13 March 2013
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