title: 1746 in music
text: # 1746 in music
  
  ## Events
  
  * April 8 Johann Sebastian Bach performs a copy he made of the Brockes Passion HWV 48 of George Frideric Handel at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.
  * Elias Gottlob Haussmann completes his famous portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach
  * 1746–1747 Bach adds two Chorale preludes (BWV 664 and 665) to his manuscript of the Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes.
  
  ## Classical music
  
  * Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
     * Harpsichord Concerto in A major, H.422
     * Harpsichord Concerto in C major, H.423
     * Viola da Gamba Sonata in D major, H.559
  * Johann Sebastian Bach
     * Sechs Choräle von verschiedener Art
     * Canon in G major, BWV 1076
  * Francesco Feo – S. Francesco di Sales (sacred oratorio) first performed
  * Francesco Geminiani
     * 6 Cello Sonatas, Op. 5
     * 6 Concertos, Op.7
  * Christoph Willibald Gluck – 6 Trio Sonatas, Wq.53
  * Christoph Graupner – Ach Herr, mich armen Suender (cantata)
  * Joannes de Gruytters – his carillon book.
  * George Frideric Handel
     * Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62 with words by Newburgh Hamilton
     * Concerto in D major, HWV 335a (contributed to the Music for the Royal Fireworks)
  * Niccolò Pasquali – Sonatas for two cellos
  * Giovanni Benedetto Platti – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas, Op. 4 (parts of which have been attributed to Benedetto Marcello)
  * Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer – Pièces de clavecin
  * Rudolf Straube – 2 Lute Sonatas
  * Giuseppe Tartini – 3 Violin Concertos, Libro 1
  
  ## Opera
  
  * Andrea Adolfati – La pace fra la virtù e la bellezza
  * Thomas Arne – Neptune and Amphitrite
  * Matteo Capranica – Alcibiade
  * Carl Heinrich Graun – Demofoonte, GraunWV B:I:13
  * Niccolò Jommelli – Didone abbandonata
  * Jean-Marie Leclair – Scylla et Glaucus
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Burke Thumoth – 12 English and 12 Irish Airs with Variations (London: J. Simpson)
  * Anonymous – The Compleat Tutor for the French Horn (London: John Simpson)
  
  ## Methods and theory writings
  
  * William Tans'ur – A New Musical Grammar
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 11 – František Adam Míča, Czech composer (died 1811)
  * January 23 – Pierre-Ulric Dubuisson, translator and actor (died 1794)
  * February 13 – Giuseppe Maria Cambini, Italian composer (died 1825)
  * April 4 – Alexandre-Louis Robineau, librettist (died 1823)
  * June 2– Wilhelm Cramer, composer and violinist (died 1799)
  * June 3 (probable) – James Hook (composer), composer (died 1827)
  * June 29 – Joachim Heinrich Campe, German librettist (died 1818)
  * July 2 – Hartenack Otto Conrad Zinck, Danish composer (died 1832)
  * August 21 – Ignaz Umlauf, Austrian composer (died 1796)
  * September 3 – Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter, librettist and poet (died 1797)
  * September 20 – Christian Benjamin Uber, German composer (died 1812)
  * September 26 – Giovanni Punto, composer and horn player (died 1803)
  * October 4 – Domenico Corri, Italian composer (died 1825)
  * October 7 – William Billings, American composer (died 1800)
  * October 12 – Emerico Lobo de Mesquita, composer and collaborator (died 1805)
  * October 22 – Hector Macneill, librettist and poet (died 1818)
  * November 15 – Joseph Quesnel, composer (died 1809)
  * December 19 – Venanzio Rauzzini, collector and opera singer (died 1810)
  * December 21 – Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty, librettist and poet (died 1776)
  * unknown date - Avdotya Mikhaylova, opera singer (died 1807)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * March 16 – Jean Baptiste Matho, French composer (born 1663)
  * March 30 – Jean-Joseph Fiocco, composer (b. 1686)
  * May 15 – Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, composer
  * August 27 – Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, German composer
  * October 14 – Domenico Alberti, Italian composer (born c. 1700)
  * December 6 – Grizel Baillie, librettist and composer (born 1665)
  * December 10 – Teodorico Pedrini, priest, musician and composer (b. 1671)
  * unknown date – Jean-Baptiste Malter, dancer (b. 1701)
  