1740 in Music History
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Months in 1740: January February March April May June August October November December
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 15 of 15
Feb 3rd - Guillaume Lasceux, composer
Feb 12th - Matej Sojka, composer
Feb 15th - Ernst Eichner, composer
Mar 19th - Johann Georg Roser, composer
Mar 19th - Joseph F Weigl, German/Austrian(?), violin cellist
Mar 24th - John Antes, composer
Apr 4th - Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer
May 9th - Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Barber of Seville)
Jun 8th - Gabriele Mario Piozzi, composer
Jun 11th - Luigi Gatti, composer
Aug 10th - Samuel Arnold, composer
Oct 8th - Michel-Julien Mathieu, composer
Oct 26th - Ernest Louis Muller, composer
Nov 14th - Johann van Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven's father and first teacher (d. 1792)
Dec 13th - Franz Xaver Schnitzer, composer
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 3 of 3
Jan 2nd - Johann Georg Weichenberger, composer, dies at 63
Jan 5th - Antonio Lotti, Italian opera composer, dies at about 72
Feb 9th - Vincenz Lubeck, composer, dies at 85
