Music year 1694

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Music year 1694
With Zenobia and Regina de 'Palmireni, Tomaso Albinoni begins an extensive operatic oeuvre.	Alessandro Scarlatti's opera Pirro e Demetrio premieres in Naples.

Events

• Tomaso Albinoni appears as a composer for the first time with an opera Zenobia, regina de Palmireni and a collection of instrumental works (12 Suonate a tre op. 1). Due to his main technical occupation as a trained playing card maker in his parents' business, he is not dependent on making a living with music, and describes himself as a "dilettante veneto" (Venetian amateur). Zenobia is the beginning of an extensive operatic career. From now on, Albinoni composes an average of one or two operas a year.

• May 11th : Johann Sebastian Bach's mother Elisabeth Lemmerhirt dies. His father Johann Ambrosius Bach married the widow Barbara Margaretha Bartholomäi, née Keul , on November 27th . But this marriage will not last long, since Ambrosius died on February 20, 1695.
• The German composer and doctor Johann Philipp Förtsch becomes personal physician and councilor of the Prince-Bishop of Lübeck August Friedrich von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf , who resides in Eutin .

World premieres

Stage works

Opera

• January 25th : The world premiere of the opera Xerse by Giovanni Battista Bononcini takes place in Tordinona in Rome.
• Two Masques by the English composer John Eccles are premiered in London:
  • Macbeth after William Shakespeare
  • The Rape of Europa (Libretto by Peter Anthony Motteux)
• The opera Pirro e Demetrio by Alessandro Scarlatti has its premiere in Naples .
• Francesco Gasparini - Il Roderico

Jesuit music

• The school drama Fidei, ac perfidiae exampla in Pertharito from Unulfo et Garibaldo demonstrata… (C. App. 26) by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber based on the text by Vitus Kaltenkrauter will be premiered in Salzburg (only text preserved).

Instrumental music

Chamber music

• Tomaso Albinoni - 12 Sonata a tre op.1 (published by Sala in Venice )
• Dieterich Buxtehude - VII suonate , op.1
• Arcangelo Corelli - 12 trio sonatas da camera, op.4 ( Sonate a tre , Rome)
• Philipp Heinrich Erlebach - VI Sonata à Violino e Viola da Gamba col suo Basso Continuo (1694)
• Johann Jakob Walther - Well-planted Violin Pleasure Garden. (2nd edition of Hortulus chelicus ).
• Johann Paul von Westhoff - Sonata a Violino solo con basso continuo

Vocal music

• Henry Purcell composes an anthem for the funeral service of Queen Mary II of England .
• Henry Purcell composed his Te Deum and Jubilate for the Day of St. Cecilia in 1694 . It is the first English Te Deum with orchestral accompaniment.

Textbooks

• Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber - Singfundament (C. 147), an elementary music and singing honor that Biber wrote for his then 17 year old daughter Anna Magdalena Biber (1677–1742).

Instrument making

The violin Francesca by Antonio Stradivari

• In Antonio Stradivari's workshop , the violins now known as Baillot-Pomerau , Fetzer, Rutson and Francesca and the Cuarteto Real cello are made.

A bass viol from 1694 from the workshop of Joachim Tielke

• The German instrument maker Joachim Tielke , an important lute and viola maker, makes a viola d'arc baixa.

Born

• May 11 : Hieronymus Florentinus Quehl , German composer and organist († 1739 )
• July 4th : Louis-Claude Daquin , French composer († 1772 )

• August 5 : Leonardo Leo , Italian composer († 1744 )
• September 5 : František Vaclav Míča , Czech composer († 1744 )
• October 26 : Johan Helmich Roman , Swedish composer († 1758 )

Died

Date of death secured

• January 19 : Benjamin Ludwig Ramhaufski , Austrian organist and composer (* around 1631 )
• March 11th : Jean-Nicolas Geoffroy , French harpsichordist, organist and composer (* 1633 )
• March 18 : Johann Jacob Prinner , Austrian composer, organist and music theorist (* 1624 )

• April 9 : Angelo Berardi , Italian music theorist and composer (* around 1636 )
• May 17 : Johann Michael Bach , German composer (* 1648 )

• July 5th : Sebastian Achamer , Austrian organ builder (* 1623 )
• September 27 : Giuseppe Colombi , Italian violinist and composer (* 1635 )

• October 12 : Delphin Strungk , north German organist and composer (* 1601 )
• October 13 : Johann Christoph Pezel , German town piper and composer (* 1639 )

Erasmus Francisci

• December 20 : Erasmus Francisci , German polyhistor, author and hymn poet (* 1627 )

Exact date of death unknown

• Pierre Menault , French composer and conductor (* 1642 )
• Johann Vest , German organ builder (* around 1630 )
• Friedrich von Westhoff , German cavalryman, lutenist and trombonist (* 1611 )

See also

Portal: Music  - Overview of Wikipedia content on music

Web links

Commons : Music 1694  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Recording with Rodolfo Richter (violin), Alison McGillivray (viol) a. a., LINN RECORDS: CKD270, on Musicweb ( accessed September 26, 2019)