Music year 1699
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Overview of the music years
Further events
| Music year 1699 | |
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 Mattheson's opera The Pleiades is premiered. |
.jpg) Caldara's opera L'oracolo in sogno is premiered. |
Events
- February: Daniel Purcell , Richard Leveridge and Jeremiah Clarke compose the music for an adaptation of the tragic comedy The Island Princess by John Fletcher .
- John Blow is the first in London to receive the newly established post of composer at the Chapel Royal .
- In Nuremberg is Johann Pachelbel's significant variations Collection "Hexachordum Apollinis" published for keyboard instruments (harpsichord and organ).
- Johann Paul von Westhoff comes to the Weimar court as chamber secretary, chamber musician and language master for French and Italian .
- The important dancer Françoise Prévost makes her debut at the Paris Opera in Lullys Atys .
World premieres
Stage works
Opera
- January 18th : World premiere of the opera La fede pubblica by Giovanni Battista Bononcini at the Hofburg in Vienna .
- February 16 : World premiere of the opera The connection of the great Hercules with the beautiful Hebe by Reinhard Keizer on the libretto by Christian Heinrich Postel at the Theater am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg . This year, von Keizer also premiered the shepherd's play The constant and faithful Ismene based on the libretto by Friedrich Christian Bressand and the singing play Die wunderbar errettete Iphigenia based on a libretto by Christian Heinrich Postel (based on Euripides ).
- February 28 : The opera ballet Le carnaval de Venise by André Campra , based on a libretto by Jean-François Regnard , is premiered at the Académie royale de musique in Paris.
- Carnival: World premiere of the opera seria in three acts La Partenope by Luigi Mancia based on the libretto by Silvio Stampiglia at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples .
- March 26th : The tragédie lyrique Amadis de Grèce by André Cardinal Destouches is premiered; Destouches' Marthésie followed in November of the same year . Antoine Houdar de La Motte wrote the libretti for both operas .
- The German opera singer and composer Johann Mattheson composes his first opera based on a libretto by Friedrich Christian Bressand with Die Plejades, or Das Siebengestirne . The world premiere takes place in Hamburg. Mattheson directs the performance himself and sings a leading role.
- In honor of the visit of Wilhelmine Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg , wife of the future Emperor Joseph I , the frame is a ceremony on February 8 , the three-piece Serenata Tratenimento musicale di Salis del'ossequio Burgi (C. App. 31) by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Beaver premiered. Only the text is preserved.
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Carlo Agostino Badia
- Imeneo trionfante (Serenata for the wedding of Joseph I and Wilhelmine Amalie von Braunschweig-Lüneburg ).
- Il Narciso (world premiere in Laxenburg )
- Il commun giubilo del mondo (world premiere in Vienna)
- Giovanni Battista Bononcini
- L'Euleo festeggiante
- La gara delle quattri stagioni
- Antonio Caldara - L'oracolo in sogno
- Francesco Gasparini - Mirena e Floro
- Alessandro Scarlatti - Gl'Inganni felici
Instrumental music
Chamber music
- Antonio Caldara –11 Suonate da camera a tre and a Chaconne , op. 2 (Venice)
- Arcangelo Corelli - 2 Sonate a quattro (contained in: Six Sonates à 4, 5, & 6 parties ... , Amsterdam around 1699)
- Alessandro Scarlatti - 2 suites for flute and B. c.
Keyboard music
- Nicolas de Grigny - Premier livre d'orgue (an organ mass and 5 hymns)
- Johann Krieger - graceful clavier exercise consisting of different ricer arias, preludes, fugues, a ciacona and a toccata aimed at the pedal ... , Nuremberg 1699 (organ, harpsichord, etc.)
- Johann Pachelbel - Hexachordum Apollinis - sex Arias exhibens Organo pneumatico vel clavato cymbalo ... , Nuremberg 1699 (6 arias with variations for organ, harpsichord, etc.)
- Alessandro Scarlatti - 2nd symphony , for harpsichord
Vocal music
Spiritually
- Giovanni Battista Brevi - La devotione canora: motetti, libro II
- Michel Richard Delalande - Confitebor tibi Domine in B minor, Grand Motet for solos, choir, orchestra and bc; the piece was considered the composer's masterpiece and was also performed in the first spiritual concert in 1725 .
Worldly
- Carlo Agostino Badia - Tributi armonici , 12 cantatas for soprano and basso continuo ( ca.1699 )
- Antonio Caldara - 12 solo chamber cantatas, op.3 (Venice)
Other
- Johann Georg Ahle - Musical Autumn Talk
- Giovanni Battista Brevi - Primi elementi di musica per li principianti
- Georg Muffat - Regulae Concentuum Partiturae. Figured bass treatise
Instrument making
- Antonio Stradivari makes the violins Kustendyke , Lady Tennant , Longuet , Countess Polignac and Castelbarco .
Born
- January 14 : Jakob Adlung , German organist, composer, music writer and instrument maker († 1762 )
- March 25 : Johann Adolph Hasse , German composer († 1783 )
- March 30 : Johann Michael Breunig , German composer († 1755 )
- July 2nd : Johann Ulrich Eberle , Austrian instrument maker living in Prague († 1768 )
- August 10 : Christoph Gottlieb Schröter , German composer († 1782 )
- September 12 : Michael Jacob Bagewitz , German Protestant theologian and song writer († 1763 )
- November 13 : Jan Zach , Bohemian composer and conductor in the Electorate of Mainz († 1773 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Sanctus Seraphin , Italian violin maker († 1776 )
Died
- April 11 : Friedrich Christian Bressand , German poet and opera librettist (* around 1670)
- May 22nd : Johann Georg Conradi , German composer and organist (* 1645 )
- June 1 : Jean Rousseau , French gambist and music theorist (* 1644 )
- September 5th : Hans Henric Cahman , Swedish organ builder of German family origin (* around 1640 )
- October 20 : Friedrich Funcke , German clergyman, cantor and composer (* 1642 )
- November 27 : Wilhelm Karges , German organist and composer (* 1613/14)
- November 27 : Damian Stachowicz , Polish composer (* 1658 )
- December 30th : Pierre Robert , French composer and conductor (* around 1618)
See also
Web links
Commons : Opera Libretti 1699 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ↑ See booklet text for the CD: '' Michel Richard Delalande - Te Deum '' (+ '' Super flumina Babilonis '' & '' Confitebor tibi Domine ''), Les Arts florissants, William Christie, harmonia mundi, 1991/2001, p 9
- ↑ Entry in the catalog of the German National Library (accessed October 1, 2019)