1733 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1733.

Events

July 2 - Johann Sebastian Bach performs a revised version of his Magnificat in D major, BWV 243, ending the mourning period for Augustus II the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland.
July 10 - George Frideric Handel premieres his English-language oratorio Athalia at the University of Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre.
Thomas Arne's first opera, Rosamund, is staged, with his sister, Susannah Maria, performing.
First opera staged at the Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù, A. Aurelli’s Gerone, tiranno di Siracusa.
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach is appointed organist of the Sophienkirche, Dresden.
Approximate date of the William Dixon manuscript of music for the Border pipes.
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.

Johann Sebastian Bach – Mass for the Dresden court (Kyrie and Gloria), later part of the Mass in B minor
Francesco Geminiani – Concerti grossi, Op. 3
Pietro Locatelli – L'arte del violino
Benedetto Marcello – Il pianto e il riso delle quattro stagioni (oratorio)

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