Music year 1693
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Overview of the music years
Further events
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Events
Openings
- May 8 : The Oper am Brühl , which was built by Girolamo Sartorio in just four months , is the first Leipzig opera house to be opened in the presence of Elector Johann Georg IV with the Alceste opera by court conductor Nicolaus Adam Strungk . The German text after Aurelio Aureli comes from Paul Thymich .
- François Couperin receives the post of organist at the Royal Chapel in Versailles .
- John Eccles becomes a composer at the Drury Lane Theater in London.
- To dissuade Georg Philipp Telemann from pursuing a musical career, his mother and relatives confiscate all of his instruments and send him to school in Zellerfeld at the end of 1693 (or beginning of 1694) .
World premieres
Stage works
Opera
- February 3 : The opera La libertà contenta by Agostino Steffani based on the libretto by Ortensio Mauro is performed for the first time in Hanover .
- Carnival: The opera Il trionfo dell'innocenza, a dramma per musica in 3 acts based on the libretto by Rinaldo Cialli, is premiered in Venice .
- Carnival: The opera Camillo Generoso by Carlo Luigi Pietragrua has its world premiere in Dresden .
- December 4th : The Tragédie lyrique Médée ( H 491 ) by Marc-Antoine Charpentier based on a libretto by Thomas Corneille has its world premiere at the Palais-Royal in Paris . Marthe Le Rochois (Médée), Françoise Moreau (Créuse), Dumesnil (Jason) and Jean Dun (Créon) sing in the leading roles. Although the piece was initially well received and gallantly and benevolently discussed at the Mercure , it was not granted any further success, perhaps because Charpentier was best known as a composer of sacred works.
- Henri Desmarest - Didon
- Johann Philipp Krieger - Hercules under the Amazons (Singe-Spiel, lost)
- Alessandro Scarlatti - II Flavio Cuniberto (world premiere in Naples)
- Georg Philipp Telemann composed his first opera Sigismundus at the age of twelve , based on a libretto by Christian Heinrich Postel .
Incidental music
- Henry Purcell writes music for two comedies by William Congreve : The Old Bachelor and The Double Dealer .
Instrumental music
orchestra
- Philipp Heinrich Erlebach - VI Overtures, accompanied with their appropriate airs in the French style, a 5, 6 (Overture suites; publ. 1693)
Chamber music
- Antonio Caldara - 12 Suonate a tre, Op. 1
Vocal music
- Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber - Vesperae Longiores ac Breviores Unacùm Litaniis Lauretanis
Instrument making
Violin Gould by Antonio Stradivari
- The violins now known as Bonnet , Gendron and Gould are produced in Antonio Stradivari's workshop .
Spinet by Bartolomeo Cristofori
- Bartolomeo Cristofori builds for Ferdinando de 'Medici , the eldest son of Cosimo III. two spinets in the unusual shape of a boat. One of them is still preserved today.
Born
- January 28 : Gregor Joseph Werner , Austrian composer († 1766 )
- March 24th : Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin , French flautist († 1768 )
- May 17th : Georg Sigismund Caspari , German organ builder († 1742 )
- August 8 : Laurent Belissen , French composer of the late Baroque († 1762 )
Died
Date of death secured
- February 13 : Johann Caspar Kerll , German organist, harpsichordist and composer (* 1627 )
- March 31 : Jiři Melcl , Czech composer (* 1624 )
- May 4th (buried): Wolf Hieronymus Herold , German bell founder (* 1627 )
- June 24th : Pavel Josef Vejvanovský , Czech trumpeter and composer (* around 1633 )
- July 12th : Domenico Melani , Italian castrato singer and court official from Electoral Saxony (* 1629 )
- August 25 : Johann Christoph Bach the Elder Ä. , German violinist, twin brother of Johann Ambrosius Bach, the father of Johann Sebastian Bach (* 1645 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Andreas Gleich , organist and church musician (* 1625 )
- Giuseppe Felice Tosi , Italian organist, conductor and composer (* 1628 )
Died after 1693
- Samuel Gercke , German organ builder and organist
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1693 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1693 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernhard Schrammek: Booklet text for CD Overtures - Music for the Hamburg Opera , Academy for Early Music Berlin, harmonia mundi, 2004, pp. 12–15 here: 14