1747 in music

Events

• Johann Sebastian Bach is presented to King Frederick II of Prussia in Berlin; 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

• Pièces de viole mises en pièces de clavecin by Antoine Forqueray (posthumously published)
• "Judas Maccabeus" (oratorio) by George Frideric Handel

  Births

• date unknown - François Tourte, maker of violin bows
  

  Deaths

• June 19 - Alessandro Marcello, composer
• July 9 - Giovanni Bononcini, composer