1752 in music - Definition and Overview

See also: 1751 in music, other events of 1752, 1753 in music, list of years in music.

Events

• George Frideric Handel is operated on for an eye condition, at Guy's Hospital in London.
• Publication of Essay on Musical Expression by Charles Avison.
• Publication of Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversière zu spielen, a treatise on the flute, by Johann Joachim Quantz
• Christoph Willibald Gluck becomes Konzertmeister at Vienna.
• Artist Thomas Gainsborough joins the Ipswich Musical Society; he later paints the portrait of English composer Joseph Gibbs
• Nicola Porpora leaves Dresden for Vienna

Classical music

• Jephtha (oratorio) by Handel

Opera

• Le Devin du Village by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Births

• April 5 - Sebastien Erard, piano-maker
• May 2 - Ludwig August Lebrun, composer
• September 18 - Johann Anton Sulzer, composer
• unknown date - Johann Samuel Schroeter, composer

Deaths

• July 24 - Michael Festing, violinist and composer