Music year 1689
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Overview of the music years
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Music year 1689 | |
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The first verifiable performance of Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas takes place. |
Events
- The first verifiable performance of Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas based on the libretto by Nahum Tate takes place in a girls' boarding school in Chelsea in 1689 (or 1688) . The librettist Nahum Tate took the material from the Aeneid of Virgil . While the original version of the libretto has survived, Purcell's music has only come down to us in later copies. The music of the prologue is completely lost, probably because the allusion to current politics in it no longer fitted in later performances. The opera is one of the most important musical and dramatic works of the Baroque and is Purcell's only real opera (as opposed to several semi-operas ). Dido and Aeneas is remarkable for its brevity. Purcell is also more oriented towards French than Italian opera, e.g. B. the choir plays an unusually important role and some dances are included in the action. Probably the best-known piece is Dido's lament “ When I am laid in earth ”, an aria over a lamento - Basso ostinato .
- January 8th : The Italian soprano Vittoria Tarquini and Jean-Baptiste Farinel , Kapellmeister (or 1st violinist) of the Elector of Hanover get married in Copenhagen . 3 weeks later (on January 30th) they both appeared in the premiere of Agostino Steffani's opera Henrico Leone in Braunschweig .
- March 29th : After an audition in Husum, the organ and violin virtuoso Nicolaus Bruhns is unanimously elected as the new organist in Husum , "because previously no one else had heard of composing and tracing all kinds of instruments in this city".
- April 19 : The decoration ignites during an opera performance in the theater of the Danish palace Amalienborg . The theater and the castle, to which the flames spread, are destroyed in the fire . 171 people die, among them the composer Johann Lorentz .
- April 30th : On the birthday of Queen Mary II of England, the Ode Now Does The Glorious Day Appear Z 332 by Henry Purcell is performed.
- September 1st : The Austrian violinist and composer Johann Joseph Vilsmayr becomes violinist in the court orchestra in Salzburg.
- The German composer and doctor Johann Philipp Förtsch gives up his musical activities when he becomes court doctor in Schleswig.
- Alessandro Scarlatti became a brief teacher at the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto in Naples . This is despite the fact that he has been Kapellmeister of the viceroyal court orchestra (Cappella Reale) in Naples since 1684 and retained this position until 1703.
- The nine livres d ' airs de cour for 4 and 5 parts (1617–1642) by Antoine de Boësset will be reissued by Christophe Ballard in Paris.
World premieres
Opera
- January 26th : The tragedy Esther by Jean Racine , with music by Jean-Baptiste Moreau , premieres in the girls' boarding school in Saint-Cyr . The performance at Saint-Cyr, in which all the roles are played by young actresses, becomes a success. Soon after, Madame de Maintenon , the second wife of Louis XIV of France, commissioned another biblical tragedy.
Title page of the libretto of the opera Enrico Leone
- January 30th : The opera Enrico Leone by Agostino Steffani based on the libretto by Ortensio Mauro is premiered in Braunschweig; the singers include Vittoria Tarquini and the tenor Antonio Borosini .
- Summer: Agostino Steffani's opera La lotta d'Ercole con Acheloo ( “divertimento drammatico” in one act) based on the libretto by Ortensio Mauro will be premiered in the castle in Hanover.
- Three operas by Johann Philipp Förtsch are premiered:
- The powerful monarch of the Persians, Xerxes, in Abidus on the libretto by Christian Heinrich Postel in Hamburg
- Cain and Abel, or the desperate brother-murderer based on the libretto by Christian Heinrich Postel
- The sad and delighted Cimbria to the libretto by Christian Heinrich Postel in Hamburg.
- The tragedy lyrique Thétis et Pelée by Pascal Collasse based on the libretto by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle is performed for the first time.
- Antonio Caldara - L'Argene
- Pascal Colasse - Thétis et Pelée ( Tragédie lyrique )
- Domenico Gabrielli - Silvo, re degli Albani (melodramma, libretto: Pietro d'Averara, Turin)
- Marc'Antonio Ziani - Il gran Tamerlano. Libretto: Giulio Cesare Corradi . Dramma per musica. World premiere at the Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice.
Oratorios
- Giovanni Battista Bassani - Giona (Lent 1689, Modena)
Instrumental music
Ensemble music
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Arcangelo Corelli
- 12 trio sonatas da chiesa ( Sonata a tre) op. 3, dedicated to Francesco II. D'Este , Duke of Modena . He had heard Corelli play in Pamphilis Palazzo in 1686 and was so impressed by the performance that in the following time he tried several times to entice Corelli to Modena.
- Sinfonia to Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier's oratorio Santa Beatrice d'Este
- Domenico Gabrielli - 7 Ricercari (for violoncello solo)
- Marin Marais - Premier livre de pièces à une et à deux violes (extended new edition of the 1st book with 93 pieces for one or two solo viols ; this time with continuo part, which was missing in the first edition in 1686)
- Giovanni Maria Ruggieri - 10 violin sonatas "Bizarrie armoniche esposite in dieci Sonate con violini, tiorbo e harpsichord" (Giuseppe Sala, Venice) op.1
- Pavel Josef Vejvanovský : Sonata a 5 for two trumpets, strings and basso continuo
- Giovanni Battista Vitali - Artificii musicali, op.13 (didactic collection comprising 60 instrumental pieces).
harpsichord
- The French composer, harpsichordist and organist Jean-Henri d'Anglebert , who had worked with Jean-Baptiste Lully in Versailles and arranged numerous overtures , airs and dances for harpsichord from his operas and ballets , publishes these together with four of his own suites and some “ Vaudevilles ” in his pièces de clavecin . The collection also includes a Kyrie and five short joints (on the same subject) for organ, and also the most extensive table of ornaments that has ever been published (29 different trills , mordents , suspensions , double beats , arpeggios etc.).
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Jacques Boyvin
- Premier Livre d'orgue contenant les huit tons à l'usage ordinaire de l'église
- Second livre d'orgue contenant les huit tons à l'usage ordinaire de l'église
- Johann Kuhnau - New keyboard exercise, first part (7 suites for harpsichord, clavichord, spinet)
- The second part of Musick's Handmaid: containing the newest Lessons, Grounds, Sarabands, Minuets and Jiggs, set for the Virginalls , Harpsichords and Spinets (Henry Playford , London 1689). The collection contains u. a. Harpsichord works by Henry Purcell.
Vocal music
Spiritually
- Giovanni Paolo Colonna - Sacre lamentationi della settimana santa op.9 (Bologna)
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Michel-Richard Delalande
- De profundis S 23, Psalm 128 (130) for solos, choir and orchestra
- Exalatabo te Deus meus, Psalm 144 for solos, choir and orchestra
- Jubilate Deo S 9, Psalm 99 (100) for solos, choir and orchestra
- Pange lingua gloriosi
- Samuel Jacobi - Historia Resurrectionis for solo voices, mixed choir, strings and basso continuo (1686)
- Johann Caspar von Kerll - Missae sex, cum instrumentis concertantibus (6 masses)
- Michel Lambert - Leçons de ténèbres pour la semaine sainte (Funeral music for Holy Week) for a voice and bc
- Giovanni Lenzei - Sacri Musicali Concerti a due, e tre voci. Libro Terzo, op.15
- Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers - Motets à voix seule, accompagnée de la basse continue et quelques autres motets à deux voix, propres pour les religieuses, avec l'Art d'accompagner sur la basse continue, pour l'orgue et le clavecin
- Henry Purcell - Praise the Lord o Jerusalem Z 46
- Pavel Josef Vejvanovský: - Vesperae de sabbatho
Worldly
- Jakob Kremberg - Musical amusement of the mind, or arias, together with their underlaid High German poems, partly high class people and excellent people, partly own invention. Which are set up so that you can sing with one voice alone along with the general bass, or at the same time and especially on the Lauthe, Angelique, Viola di Gamba, and Chitarra, can be played. Everything made in the latest Italian and French manner with great effort and diligence, and according to one instrument, nature and property, very comfortably in hand , Dresden, 1689
- Michel Lambert - 60 Airs , for 1 to 5 voices, 2 instruments and Bc (Paris, 1689)
Instrument making
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The Spanish Stradivari II from the "Cuarteto Real" in the Palacio Real , Madrid (year of construction approx. 1689)
- Antonio Stradivari produces the violins known today under the names Arditi and Baumgartner as well as probably the violins Spanische Stradivari I , Spanische Stradivari II and the cello Archinto.
Born
- February 27 : Pietro Gnocchi , Italian composer, geographer and historian († 1775 )
- April 14 : Ferdinand Zellbell , Swedish composer († 1765 )
- September 30th : Jacques Aubert , French violinist and composer († 1753 )
- November 3 : Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner , Bohemian composer († 1742 )
- December 23 : Joseph Bodin de Boismortier , French flautist and harpsichordist († 1755 )
Died
Date of death secured
- April 19 : Johan Lorentz the Younger , Danish composer (* around 1610 )
- May 4 or May 8 : Christian Knorr von Rosenroth , German polyhistor, poet, writer and Protestant hymn poet (* 1636 )
- November 13 : Philipp von Zesen , German Protestant hymn poet and writer (* 1619 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Jaume Vidal , Catalan monk, musician, writer and biblical scholar (* 1606 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1689 - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1689 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Colin Timms: Polymath of the Baroque: Agostino Steffani and His Music , Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 55, online as Google Book (English; accessed October 21, 2019)
- ↑ Matthew Gardner: "Steffani's Italian Opera singers in Hanover, Recruitment and Vocal Style", in: Claudia Kaufold, Nicole K. Strohmann, Colin Timms (HRG.): Agostini Steffani - European composer, Hanoverian diplomat and bishop of Leibniz's time , ..., Göttingen, 2017, pp. 123–138, here: p. 128
- ↑ Helen Coffey: "Opera for the House of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Italian singers at the Hannover Court", in: Claudia Kaufold, Nicole K. Strohmann, Colin Timms (HRG.): Agostini Steffani - European composer, Hanoverian diplomat and bishop of the Leibniz-Zeit , ..., Göttingen, 2017, pp. 107–122, here: p. 117
- ^ Theophil Antonicek, Jennifer Williams Brown: Ziani, Marc'Antonio. In: Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press, 2001, accessed August 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Original title page on IMSLP (accessed September 28, 2019)