1744 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• March 27 Johann Sebastian Bach revives his St Mark Passion with some textual changes and two new arias inserted at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.
• Castrato Giovanni Carestini goes to work for Maria Theresa of Austria.

Classical music

• Thomas Arne – The Death of Abel (oratorio)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – Das wohltemperierte Klavier, part 2
• Johan Helmich Roman – Drottningholm Music (Music for a Royal Wedding)
• Francesco Maria Veracini – L'errore di Salomone (oratorio)

Opera

• Daniele Dal Barba – Il Tigrane
• Christoph Willibald Gluck – Ipermestra
• George Frideric Handel – Semele
• John Frederick Lampe – The Kiss Accepted and Returned

Births

• May 3 – Friedrich Wilhelm Weis, composer
• May 4 – Marianna Martines, singer, pianist and composer (d. 1812)
• date unknown
  • Gaetano Brunetti, Italian composer (d. 1798)
  • Charles le Picq, French dancer and choreographer (d. 1806)

Deaths

• January 14 – Charles-Hubert Gervais, composer (born 1671)
• January 20 – Richard Jones, violinist and composer
• February 15 – František Václav Míča, conductor and composer (born 1694)
• March 22 – Georg Lenck, German musician (born 1685)
• April 26 – Domenico Sarro, Italian composer (born 1679)
• June 29 – André Campra, composer (born 1660)
• October 17 – Giuseppe Guarneri, violin-maker (born 1698)
• October 31 – Leonardo Leo, composer (born 1694)
• date unknown
  • Claude Balon, dancer and choreographer
  • Francesca Vanini-Boschi, operatic contralto