1724 in music

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      The year 1724 in music involved some significant musical events.


      Events


      Johann Sebastian Bach composes the Sanctus for his later Mass in B minor.
      John Frederick Lampe arrives in Britain.
      Joseph Bodin de Boismortier moves to Paris from Perpignan.
      Agostino Steffani is elected honorary president of the Academy of Antient Musick in London.
      Johann Adolph Hasse arrives in Naples.
      The Le Saraste violin is made by Antonio Stradivari (now owned by the Real Concervatorio Superior de Música in Madrid, Spain).
      In Rome, Domenico Scarlatti meets Farinelli and Johann Joachim Quantz.
      Marriage of the daughter of music publisher Jean-Baptiste-Christophe Ballard to the printer François Boivin.
      Sébastien de Brossard's collection of manuscripts is bought by King Louis XV of France.
      Renatus Harris builds his last organ, that of St Dionis Backchurch in the City of London.
      7 April Johann Sebastian Bach premieres his St John Passion (BWV 245, BC D 2a) at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.


      Published music


      Attilio Ariosti
      6 Cantatas (London)
      6 Lessons, for viola d'amore and basso continuo (London)
      Francesco Barsanti – Sonate [6], for recorder or violin and continuo, Op. 1 (London)
      Joseph Bodin de Boismortier – Cantates françoises (Les Quatre Saisons) (four cantatas for solo voice, various instruments, and basso continuo), Op. 5 (Paris)
      François Couperin – Les goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux concerts (Paris)
      William Croft – Musica sacra
      Jean-François Dandrieu – Pièces de clavecin, Book 1
      Francesco Mancini – XII Solos for recorder and continuo (London)
      Thomas Marc – Suitte de pièces de dessus et de pardessus de viole
      Benedetto Marcello – Estro poetico-armonico: parafrasi sopra li primi venticinque salmi, vols. 1–4 (Venice: Appresso Domenico Lovisa)
      Jean-Philippe Rameau – Pieces de Clavessin


      Classical music


      Johann Sebastian Bach
      Wo soll ich fliehen hin, BWV 5
      Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7
      Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben?, BWV 8
      Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10
      St John Passion (first performance at St. Nicolaikirche in Leipzig)
      Wer da gläubet und getauft wird, BWV 37
      Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir, BWV 38
      Sie werden euch in den Bann tun, BWV 44
      Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV 96
      Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 99
      Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101
      Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104
      Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 116
      Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 121
      Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BWV 135
      Wo gehest du hin, BWV 166
      Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV 180
      Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister, BWV 181
      Erwünschtes Freudenlicht, BWV 184
      George Frideric Handel – Silete venti, HWV 242
      Turlough O'Carolan – John Drury (composed for the wedding of a local couple, John Drury and Elizabeth Goldsmith)
      Jan Dismas Zelenka – De profundis, ZWV 97


      Opera


      Attilio Ariosti
      Artaserse (London, King's Theatre, 1 December)
      Aquilio consolo (London, King's Theatre, 21 May)
      Vespasiano (London, King's Theatre, 14 January)
      Antonio Caldara – Gianguir
      George Frideric Handel
      Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar), HWV 17
      Tamerlano (Tamburlaine), HWV 18
      Dominico Sarro – Didone abbandonata
      Leonardo Vinci
      Eraclea
      Farnace
      Ifigenia in Tauride
      La Rosmira fedele
      Turno Aricino
      Antonio Vivaldi
      Il Giustino RV 717
      La virtù trionfante dell'amore e dell'odio, ovvero il Tigrane, RV 740 (co-composed with Benedetto Micheli and Nicola Romaldi)


      Theoretical writings


      Edward Betts – An Introduction to the Skill of Musick
      Tomás Pereira – Lulu Zhengyi Xubian
      William Turner – Sound Anatomiz’d in A Philosophical Essay on Musick


      Births


      February 26 – Gottfried Heinrich Bach, mentally handicapped son of Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1763)
      July 18 – Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria, composer, singer, harpsichordist and patron (d. 1780)
      August 28 – Diamante Medaglia Faini, Italian poet and composer (died 1770)
      August 29 – Giovanni Battista Casti, opera librettist (died 1803)
      September 14 – Ignaz Vitzthumb, composer and conductor (died 1816)
      October 1 – Giovanni Battista Cirri, cellist and composer (died 1808)
      December 8 – Claude Balbastre, organist, harpsichordist and composer (died 1799)
      date unknown – Joan Rossell, Catalan composer (died 1780)


      Deaths


      March 7 – Wolfgang Nicolaus Pertl, musician and grandfather of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
      May 21 – Antonio Salvi, librettist for Vivaldi (born 1664)
      June 7 (buried) – Johann Hugo von Wilderer, composer (born c.1670)
      June 24 – Johann Theile, singer and composer (born 1646)
      August 24 – Andreas Kneller, composer (born 1649)
      probable
      John Abell, countertenor, composer and lutenist (born 1653)
      Antonio Quintavalle, opera composer


      References

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