Overview of the events of 1753 in music
- 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.
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Harpsichord Concerto in C minor, H.441 Wq. 31
- Harpsichord Concerto in B minor, H.440 Wq. 60
- 6 Keyboard Sonatas, Wq.63 (published in the treatise of the same year)
- Christoph Graupner – Gott der Herr ist Sonne und Schild, GWV 1113/54 (autographed 1753, first performed 1754)
- Niccolò Jommelli – 7 Trio Sonatas (two of which are not currently attributed to Jommelli)
- Jean-Marie Leclair – [3] Ouvertures et [3] sonates en trio, Op. 13 (Paris). Ouverture No. 3 arranged from Ouverture to Scylla et Glaucus (1746); the trio sonatas are arranged from the solo sonatas Op. 2 No. 8, Op. 1 No. 12, and Op. 2 No. 12
- Domenico Scarlatti – Books 3 and 5, 30 sonatas each Collection of Harpsichord Sonatas
- Georg Philipp Telemann – Fürchtet den Herrn und dienet ihm treulich (oratorio)
- Carlo Tessarini – Contrasto armonico, Op. 10[clarification needed]
- Giuseppe Valentini – Concerto in D major
- Samuel Simon Weise – Det Danske Syngende Nymphe-Chor (collection of songs)
- Johann Baptist Wendling – Flute Concerto in C major, GUN 26
Methods and theory writings
[edit]- January 9 – Luísa Todi, Portuguese opera singer (died 1833)
- March 2 – Johann Samuel Schröter, German composer (died 1788)
- April 8 – Pigault-Lebrun, librettist and writer (died 1835)
- May 3 – Jeanne-Renée de Bombelles Travanet, composer and librettist (died 1828)
- June 8 – Nicolas Dalayrac, composer of opéra-comique (died 1809)
- September 29 – Johann Gottfried Schicht, conductor and composer (died 1823)
- November 4 – Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker, librettist and art historian (died 1813)
- November 6 – Jean-Baptiste Bréval, cellist and composer (died 1823)
- November 19 – Stanislas Champein, French composer (died 1830)
- November 30 – Johann Baptist Schenk, composer (died 1836)
- December 28 – Johan Wikmanson, organist and composer (died 1800)
- 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
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