1747 in music

Events

• April 30 – Possible premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's last St Mark Passion pastiche at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig. In addition to two movements by Bach, he incorporates seven arias from George Frideric Handel's Brockes Passion HWV 48 into the work.
• October 4 – Schlosstheater Schönbrunn opens.
• Johann Sebastian Bach is presented to King Frederick II of Prussia in Potsdam; the king plays a theme for Bach and challenges the musician to improvise a six-part fugue based on it.
• Luigi Boccherini goes to Rome to study the cello.

  Classical music

• Maria Teresa Agnesi – Il restauro d'Arcadia
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Trio Sonata in F major, H.576
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• *Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her, BWV 769
• *Musikalisches Opfer, BWV 1079
• William Boyce – 12 Trio Sonatas
• Antoine Forqueray – Pièces de viole mises en pièces de clavecin
• George Frideric Handel – Judas Maccabeus
• Jean-Marie Leclair – 6 Duos for 2 Violins, Op. 12
• Jean-Philippe Rameau – La Dauphine.
• Giuseppe Sammartini – 6 Concerti Grossi, Op. 5
• Giuseppe Tartini – L'arte del arco

  Opera

• Nicola Calandra – Lo Barone Landolfo
• Geronimo Cordella – La Faustina
• Johann Adolf Hasse
• *Leucippo
• *La spartana generosa
• Giuseppe de Majo – Arianna e Teseo
• Jean-Philippe Rameau – Les Fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour, RCT 38

  Births

• February – Narciso Casanovas, Spanish composer
• March 29 – Johann Wilhelm Hässler, German organist and composer
• March 31 – Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, musician and composer
• June 24 – John O'Keeffe, Irish librettist
• June 26 – Leopold Kozeluch, prolific composer and teacher
• July 23 – Faustino Arévalo, hymnographer
• September 22 – Józef Wybicki, composer and poet
• October 26 – Giovanni Mane Giornovichi, violinist and composer
• November 24 – Felice Alessandri, Italian composer
• date unknown
• *Narciso Casanovas, Spanish monk and composer
• *Michael Ehregott Grose, Danish organist and composer
• *François Tourte, maker of violin bows

  Deaths

• January 2 – Jean-Féry Rebel, violinist and composer
• February 2 – Francisco Valls, church composer
• February 26 – Johann Nicolaus Mempel, musician
• May 26 – Robert Valentine – Baroque composer
• June 6 – Jean-Baptiste Barrière, cellist and composer
• June 19 – Alessandro Marcello, composer
• July 9 – Giovanni Bononcini, composer