1741 in music

• November 25 - Marguerite-Antoinette Couperin ( French Marguerite-Antoinette Couperin ), the first female musician at the French court, sells her place to Bernard de Bury ( French Bernard de Bury ).
• The German organist and music writer Johann Friedrich Agricola came to Berlin to study musical composition with Johann Joachim Quantz .
• Antonio Vivaldi after unsuccessful attempts to find a new job in Dresden returns to Vienna , where he soon dies.
• 19-year-old Jiri Antonin Benda is appointed as the second violinist at the Berlin court of King Frederick II of Prussia .
• English artist William Hogarth ( Eng. William Hogarth ) creates an engraving "The Enraged Musician" ( Eng. The Enraged Musician ).
• The English composer and violinist William Corbett published a three-volume collection, Thirty-Five Concerts.

• Johann Sebastian Bach - for the first time publishes " Goldberg Variations " ( German: Die Goldberg-Variationen , BWV 988), 30 variations for harpsichord.
• Georg Friedrich Handel is an oratorio for soloists, choir and orchestra "Messiah" .
• Jean-Philippe Rameau - “Pieces for Harpsichord with Accompaniment” ( French Pièces de clavecin en concert ).

• Tomaso Albinoni - Artamene .
• Christoph Willibald Gluck - Artaserse .
• Giovanni Battista Lampugnani - Arsace .

• February 8 - Andre Gretry , French composer of Belgian descent, classic of French comic opera (died September 24, 1813 ).
• February 9 - Henry Joseph Rigel, better known as Henri-Joseph Rigel ( French Henri-Joseph Rigel ), French composer of the classical era of German origin (died May 2, 1799 ).
• May 23 - Andrea Luquezi , Italian composer and organ virtuoso (died March 21, 1801 ).
• July 17 - Suzette Defoye ( French Suzette Defoye ), French ballerina , theater actress , opera singer and director , performing in France, Belgium and Russia (she died in 1787 ).
• July 27 - Francois-Hippolyte Barthélemon ( French: François-Hippolyte Barthélémon ), French violinist , teacher and composer, who spent most of his life in England (died July 20, 1808 ).
• August 31 - Jean-Paul Ezhid Martini , French composer of German descent (died February 14, 1816 ).
• September 25 - Vaclav Pichl ( Czech Vaclav Pichl ), Czech composer, violinist, singer, music director and writer (died January 23, 1805 ).

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• Franz Xaver Hammer ( German: Franz Xaver Hammer ), German gambist , cellist and composer (died October 11, 1817 ).
• Anna Brita Wendelius ( Swede. Anna Brita Wendelius ), Swedish artist and non-professional singer, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (died 1804 ).
• Theobald Marchand ( French: Theobald Marchand ), German theater director, opera director, father of Margaret Danzi (died November 22, 1800 )

• January 5 - Ann Turner Robinson ( English Ann Turner Robinson ), English soprano singer, the youngest daughter of composer and countertenor William Turner (date and year of birth unknown).
• January (presumably) - Francesco Scarlatti , Italian composer and baroque musician, brother of the composer Alessandro Scarlatti , uncle Domenico Scarlatti ; mentor of Emanuel Astorg ^[1] (born December 15, 1666 ).
• February 13 - Johann Joseph Fuchs , Austrian composer and music theorist of the Baroque era (born 1660 ).
• June 21 - Joseph-Hector Fiocco ( Dutch: Joseph-Hector Fiocco ), Flemish violinist and composer, son of Italian composer Pietro Antonio Fiocco (born January 20, 1703 ).
• July 28 - Antonio Vivaldi , Italian composer, violinist, teacher, conductor , Catholic priest , one of the largest representatives of 18th-century Italian violin art (born March 4, 1678 ).
• August - David Owen ( born David Owen ), Welsh harpist and composer (born January 1712 ).
• August 24 - Gabriel-Vincent Thévenard ( French: Gabriel-Vincent Thévenard ), French opera baritone (born August 10, 1669 ).
• September 7 - Henri Demare ( French Henry Desmarest ), French composer of sacred music of the Baroque era (born in February 1661).