1733 in music

Events

• Susannah Maria Arne makes her stage début in the first opera written by her brother, Thomas.
• Wilhelm Friedemann Bach is appointed organist of St Sophia's Church, Dresden.
• Jean-Marie Leclair becomes musical director to King Louis XV of France.
• Charles Theodore Pachelbel settles in Boston, Massachusetts.
• After 1733 Johann Sebastian Bach makes the Leipzig premiere of the Passion cantata Ein lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld by Carl Heinrich Graun
• 2 July Bach performs revised version of Magnificat (Bach) BWV 243, ending mourning period for Augustus II the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland

Publications

• Pietro Locatelli – L'arte del violino

Published popular music

• Orpheus caledonius: or, A collection of Scots songs – William Thomson

Classical music

• Johann Sebastian Bach – Mass in B minor (original version-Kyrie and Gloria only)
• Francesco Geminiani – Concerti grossi, Op. 3
• Pietro Locatelli – L'arte del violino
• Benedetto Marcello – Il pianto e il riso delle quattro stagioni (oratorio)

Opera

• Francisco António de Almeida – La pazienza di Socrate
• Thomas Arne – Rosamund
• George Frideric Handel – Orlando
• John Frederick Lampe – Dione
• Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – La serva padrona (intermezzo)
• Jean-Philippe Rameau – Hippolyte et Aricie

Births

• January 17 -Thomas Linley the elder (died 1795)
• October 28 – Franz Ignaz von Beecke (died 1803)
• date unknown – Gottfried van Swieten, collaborator of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven
  • Josina van Aerssen (died 1797)

Deaths

• February 26 – Johann Adam Birkenstock, violinist and composer (born 1687)
• May 18 – Georg Böhm, organist (born 1661)
• July 2 – Christian Petzold, organist and composer (born 1677)
• September 12 – François Couperin (born 1668)