Music year 1701

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Music year 1701
Georg Philipp Telemann founds the Collegium Musicum , a student music ensemble that became famous in the first half of the 18th century for the high quality of its performances and will go down in music history as Telemann's and Bach's Collegium Musicum .

Events

• December 6 : François d'Agincour is appointed organist at the church of Sainte-Madeleine-en-la-Cité in Paris after an audition.
• Pope Clement XI. confirms that Pope Innocent XII. Prohibition of all theater and opera performances in Rome in 1698 . He will not lift this ban until 1710.
• Francesco Gasparini becomes conductor of the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice .
• Johann Kuhnau succeeds Johann Schelle as Thomaskantor in Leipzig and will hold this position until his death. In addition, from this year he will also hold the position of university music director.
• Sixteen-year-old Domenico Scarlatti becomes organist and composer of the court orchestra of the Spanish viceroy in Naples .
• Georg Philipp Telemann finished his education at the Andreanum grammar school in Hildesheim and enrolled as a student at the University of Leipzig . Under pressure from his mother, he resolves to study law as planned and no longer bother with music. On the way from Magdeburg to Leipzig , Telemann stops in Halle to meet Georg Friedrich Händel , who was then sixteen . With him he establishes a friendship that will last a lifetime.
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  Title page of " La púrpura de la rosa "
  Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco directs the music for the funeral of the Spanish King Charles II. And shortly after the 18th anniversary of his successor Philip V. In the same year his Zarzuela La púrpura de la rosa to a text by Calderon de la Barca listed , which is considered to be the first musical stage work to be created in the New World.
• The soprano Matteuccio , famous as the "Nightingale of Naples", left Madrid after the death of Charles II, for whom he had sung every evening since 1698, and went to Vienna , where he performed operas at the imperial court for Leopold in the following years I. and Joseph I. sing and will be honored by the emperor with a title of nobility ( Marchese ).
• John Weldon takes in London in the competition for scoring William Congreve's libretto The Judgment of Paris (German: The Judgment of Paris ) in part, that in Dorset Garden Theater takes place. Despite the fact that the competition committee was not impartial, he succeeded in asserting himself against opponents such as Daniel Purcell , the younger brother of Henry Purcell , John Eccles and Gottfried Finger , thanks to his more modern compositional style . He wins first prize, followed by Eccles and Purcell. In the same year he is appointed gentleman of the Chapel Royal .

Openings

• June 28 : The opera house in front of the Salztor in Naumburg an der Saale, built on behalf of Duke Moritz Wilhelm von Sachsen-Zeitz , opens. The construction plans probably come from the state master builder Johann Heinrich Gengenbach .

Foundations

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  Antonio Giannettini - Tito Manlio - title page of the libretto
  In Leipzig, Georg Philipp Telemann, with the support of Mayor Franz Conrad Romanus, is gathering a crowd of music-loving fellow students around him. This ensemble, soon to be called Telemannisches Collegium Musicum , developed a fixed organizational structure with regular rehearsals and concerts and played the latest repertoire on a professional level, despite the high fluctuation of its student members.
• The Academia Philharmonicorum , the forerunner of the Simfonični orkester Slovenske filharmonije (German: Symphony Orchestra of the Slovenian Philharmonic), is founded in Ljubljana .

World premieres

Stage works

Opera

• July 12 : The world premiere of the opera La fede ne 'tradimenti by Attilio Ariosti on the libretto by Gerolamo Gigli takes place in Berlin .
• On July 14th, André Campra's opera-ballet Aréthuse ou la Vengeance de l'Amour will be premiered in Paris ; Antoine Danchet wrote the libretto.
• October 26th : The opera The wonderful Psyche by Reinhard Keizer based on the libretto by Christian Heinrich Postel (based on Apuleius and Matteo Noris ) is premiered on the occasion of the birthday of the Prussian Queen Sophie Charlotte of Hanover at the Theater am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg .
• The tragédie lyrique Omphale by André Cardinal Destouches , with a libretto by Antoine Houdar de la Motte , will have its world premiere on November 10, 1701 in Paris.
• The semi-opera Acis and Galatea by John Eccles on the libretto by Peter Anthony Motteux will be performed for the first time in London.
• The opera Tito Manlio by Antonio Giannettini based on the libretto by Matteo Noris will be premiered at the Teatro Pubblico in Reggio nell'Emilia .
• Attilio Ariosti - Le Fantome Amoreux (one act, libretto by Ortensio Mauro )

• Antonio Caldara - La Partenope
• John Eccles
  • The Judgment of Paris or The Prize of Music (London)
• Reinhard Keizer
  • Störtebecker and Jödge Michaels (two operas in 3 acts each; score missing)
  • The highest-priced coronation party for your Kgl. Majesty in Prussia (ballet opera in one act)
• Daniel Purcell
  • The Rival Queens (with Gottfried Finger , libretto by Nathaniel Lee )
  • The Judgment of Paris ( Masque , London) with John Abell in the title role.
• Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco - La púrpura de la rosa
• John Weldon
  • The Judgment of Paris (London)
  • Orpheus and Euridice (around 1701)

Oratorio

• Antonio Lotti
  • La Giuditta (score lost)
  • Gioas re di Giuda (Libretto by Zaccaria Valaresso, ca.1701, Venice , score has been lost)

The cello Servais of Antonio Stradivari

Instrumental music

Orchestra and ensemble music

• Johann Joseph Fux - Concentus Musico-Instrumentalis , op. 1, seven partitas (overture suites, symphonies, serenada) for different instrumentations
• Georg Muffat - Exquisite instrumental music mixed with seriousness and lust. First gathering. 12 Concerti Grossi with thematic material from the Armonico Tributo ( Passau )

Chamber music

• Henrico Albicastro - XII Suonate a tre , due violini et violoncello col basso per l'organo
• Tomaso Albinoni - Balletti a tre op.3 ( Venice )
• Johann Christian Schickhardt - Seven Sonatas for treble recorder and basso continuo, op. 1 (dedicated to Princess Henriette Amalie von Nassau-Diez; published "shortly after 1700")

Viol

• Marin Marais - Pièces de violes (2nd book), 142 pieces for 1 and 2 solo viols with bc

Vocal music

Spiritually

• Marin Marais
  • Te Deum (for the Dauphin's convalescence , lost)
  • Domine salvum fac regem ( Motet on the convalescence of the Dauphin, lost)

• Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow - Missa super chorale Christ was in death bands ( mass )

Popular music

• The Ballad of Captain Kidd (English song about Captain William Kidd , who was sentenced to death by the rope on May 23, 1701 as a pirate )

Other

• Johann Georg Ahle - Musical winter talk

Instrument making

• The Dushkin violin and the Servais cello are made in Antonio Stradivari's workshop .

Born

• January 10 : Johann Caspar Simon , German organist and composer († 1776 )
• 0February 1 : Johan Joachim Agrell , Swedish composer and conductor († 1765 )
• February 13 : Vittoria Tesi , Italian opera singer and singing teacher († 1775 )
• June 19 : François Rebel , French violinist and composer († 1775 )
• September 22nd : Anna Magdalena Wilcke , German singer, second wife of Johann Sebastian Bach († 1760 )
• 0October 9th : Tobias Schramm , German instrument and organ builder († 1771 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• Johann Georg Aichgasser , Upper Swabian organ builder († 1767 )
• Benet Esteve , Catalan composer and organist († 1770 )

Christoph Adam Negelein

Died

• 0January 1 : David Funck , Bohemian composer and musician (* 1648 )
• January 31 : Andreas Schweimb , German master organ builder (* 1654 )
• February 15 : Adam Drese , German Kapellmeister and composer (* 1620 )
  

  Memorial plaque for Adam Drese in Jena, romantic house
• February 23 : William Williams , English violinist and composer (* 1675 )
• March 10 : Johann Schelle , German composer (* 1648 )
• April 22nd : Christoph Adam Negelein , German businessman, composer, writer and lyricist (* 1656 )
• May 19 : Johann Baal , German composer (* 1657 )
• June 26th : Giulia Masotti , Italian soprano (* approx. 1650)
• July 17th : Giulio Cesare Arresti , Italian organist, conductor and composer (* 1619 )
• October 13 : Andreas Anton Schmelzer , Austrian violinist and composer (* 1653 )

Exact date of death unknown

• Andreas Christoph Clamer , Austrian composer and singer (* 1633 )
• Carolus Hacquart , Flemish composer (* around 1640 )
• Michael Kanhäuser , German organ builder (* 1634 )
• Giovanni Domenico Partenio , Venetian singer, composer and conductor (* before 1650 )
• Joan Baptista Rocabert , Catalan organist, composer and choirmaster (* 1657 )

See also

Portal: Music  - Overview of Wikipedia content on music

Web links

Commons : Music 1701  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : Opera Libretti 1701  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

1. ^ New edition in: Johann Christian Schickhard, Six Sonatas for treble recorder and basso continuo op. 1 (2 vols.), Rev. FJ Giesbert, Mainz: Edition Schott, 1957.