title: 1745 in music
text: # 1745 in music
  
  ## Events
  
  * April 16 Johann Sebastian Bach revives the anonymous St Luke Passion BWV 246 (BC D 6a) with an additional chorale by Bach himself at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
  * Thomas Arne enlarges the orchestra at Vauxhall Gardens, taking on John Hebden as principal cellist and bassoonist.
  * Giovanni Battista Pescetti returns to Venice and becomes Second Organist at St Mark's Basilica.
  * After 1745 Bach performs the Passion cantata pastiche Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt (BC D 10).
  
  ## Classical music
  
  * Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
     * Menuet con 5 Variazioni, Wq, 118, H.44
     * Harpsichord Concerto in E minor, H.418
     * Harpsichord Concerto in D minor, H.420
     * Harpsichord Concerto in D major, H.421
     * Trio Sonata in C major, H.573
  * Johann Sebastian Bach – Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191
  * Wilhelm Friedemann Bach – Keyboard Sonata in D major, F.3
  * Johann Ernst Eberlin – 9 Toccatas and Fugues (for organ), published in Augsburg, 1747, as IX toccate e fughe
  * George Frideric Handel – Hercules, HWV 60 (oratorio)
  * Johann Melchior Molter – Clarinet Concerto in G major, MWV 6.40
  * Johann Joachim Quantz – Flute Concerto in G major, QV 5:174
  * John Stanley – 10 Voluntaries (for organ), published in 1748 as Op. 5
  * Georg Philipp Telemann – Johannes Passion, TWV 5:30
  * Tomaso Antonio Vitali – Chaconne in G minor
  
  ## Opera
  
  * Ferdinando Bertoni – La vedova accorta
  * François Francœur and François Rebel
     * Le Trophée
     * Zélindor, roi des Sylphes
  * George Frideric Handel – Comus (based on the masque by John Milton)
  * Gennaro Manna – Lucio Vero
  * Jean-Philippe Rameau
     * Les Fêtes de Polymnie, RCT 39
     * Platée, RCT 53
  * Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Les Muses galantes
  * Georg Christoph Wagenseil – Ariodante
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Louis-Antoine Dornel – Le tour du clavier sur tous les tons
  * John Stanley – Six Solo's [sic] for flute or violin and harpsichord, Op. 4 (London)
  * Giuseppe Tartini – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 2 (Rome: Antonius Cleton)
  
  ## Methods and theory writings
  
  * Bartolomé Ferriol – Reglas utiles para los aficionados a danzar
  * Georg Andreas Sorge – Vorgemach der musicalischen Composition
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 17 – Nicolas Roze, music collector and composer (died 1819)
  * January 18 – Caterino Mazzolà, librettist and poet (died 1806)
  * February – Johann Peter Salomon, violinist, conductor and composer (died 1815)
  * March 4 – Charles Dibdin, British composer (died 1814)
  * April 7 – Jiří Družecký, Czech composer (died 1819)
  * May 7 – Carl Stamitz, composer (died 1801)
  * July 15 – Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Benda, composer and musician (died 1814)
  * August 19 – Johann Ignaz Ludwig Fischer, operatic bass (died 1825)
  * November 9 – Johann Michael Bach, musician and theorist (died 1820)
  * December 9 – Maddalena Laura Sirmen, violinist, singer and composer (died 1818)
  * December 25 – Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the "Black Mozart" (died 1799)
  * date unknown – Sophia Baddeley, actress and singer (died 1786)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January – Giovanni Lorenzo Gregori, collector and composer (born 1663)
  * February 18 – Nicola Fago, composer and music teacher (born 1677)
  * March 15 – Michel de la Barre, flautist and composer (born c.1675)
  * April 18 – Francesco Venturini, composer and musician (born 1675)
  * April 27 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, composer (born 1677)
  * May 9 – Tomaso Antonio Vitali, violinist and composer (born 1663)
  * June 25 – Johann Wilhelm Drese, composer (born 1677)
  * June 28 – Antoine Forqueray, viola da gamba player and composer (born 1672)
  * September 5 – Simon-Joseph Pellegrin, librettist and poet (born 1663)
  * October 18 – Jacques Autreau, librettist and painter (born 1657)
  * October 19 – Jonathan Swift, librettist and satirist (born 1667)
  * October 24 – Antonio Veracini, violinist and composer (born 1659)
  * November 5 – Françoise-Charlotte de Senneterre Ménétou, French composer (born 1679)
  * December 6 – Christoph Förster, German composer (born 1693)
  * December 23 – Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer (born 1679)
  * date unknown – Charles Coffey, dramatist and composer
  