1745 in music

Events

• April 16 Johann Sebastian Bach revives the anonymous St Luke Passion BWV 246 (BC D 6a) with an additional chorale by Bach himself at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
• Thomas Arne enlarges the orchestra at Vauxhall Gardens, taking on John Hebden as principal cellist and bassoonist.
• Giovanni Battista Pescetti returns to Venice and becomes Second Organist at St Mark's Basilica.
• After 1745 Bach performs the Passion cantata pastiche Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt (BC D 10).

Classical music

• George Frideric Handel – Hercules (oratorio)

Opera

• Ferdinando Bertoni – La vedova accorta
• George Frideric Handel – Comus (based on the masque by John Milton)
• Jean-Philippe Rameau – Platée
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Les Muses galantes
• Georg Christoph Wagenseil – Ariodante

Publications

• Louis-Antoine Dornel – Le tour du clavier sur tous les tons

Births

• February – Johann Peter Salomon, violinist, conductor and composer (died 1815)
• May 7 – Carl Stamitz, composer (died 1801)
• August 19 – Johann Ignaz Ludwig Fischer, operatic bass (died 1825)
• December 9 – Maddalena Laura Sirmen, violinist, singer and composer (died 1818)
• December 25 – Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the "Black Mozart" (died 1799)
• date unknown – Sophia Baddeley, actress and singer (died 1786)

Deaths

• February 18 – Nicola Fago, composer and music teacher (born 1677)
• March 15 – Michel de la Barre, flautist and composer (born c.1675)
• April 27 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, composer (born 1677)
• May 9 – Tomaso Antonio Vitali, violinist and composer (born 1663)
• June 25 – Johann Wilhelm Drese, composer (born 1677)
• June 28 – Antoine Forqueray, viola da gamba player and composer (born 1672)
• October 24 – Antonio Veracini, violinist and composer (born 1659)
• December 6 - Christoph Förster, composer (born 1693)
• December 23 – Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer (born 1679)
• date unknown - Charles Coffey, dramatist and composer