Music year 1702
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Overview of the music years
Further events
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Events
- January : Jean-Philippe Rameau is temporarily engaged as organist at Avignon Cathedral . In May he got a job as an organist in Clermont .
- Spring: Johann Sebastian Bach successfully completes school in Lüneburg and leaves the city.
- Georg Friedrich Händel enrolls at the newly founded university in the Ratswaage in Halle to study law with Christian Thomasius . On March 13, Handel also took over the post of organist at Halle Cathedral for a probationary year, as the local cantor Leporin was dismissed at short notice. It will be the only traditional musician job in his life.
- June : Alessandro Scarlatti goes from Naples to Florence to the court of Cosimo III. de 'Medici , Grand Duke of Tuscany, who every year in the summer months organizes private opera performances at his country estate in Pratolino . Scarlatti can perform a new version of his Flavio Cuniberto there , but does not get the permanent position he had hoped for. He arrives late in Naples in December and resigns as head of the Cappella Reale at the beginning of the new year.
- Arp Schnitger is granted organ building privileges for the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein .
World premieres
Stage works
Opera
- 25 June : The world premiere of the opera L'Offendere per amore overo la Telesilla by Johann Joseph Fux with the libretto by Donato Cupeda takes place at the Hoftheater in Vienna .
- October 19 : On the occasion of the birthday of King Frederick IV. Has Denmark opera victory of fertile Pomona of Reinhard Keizer on the libretto by Christian Heinrich Postel its world premiere at the Theater am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg .
- November 7th : André Campra's tragédie lyrique Tancrède , with a libretto by Antoine Danchet , is performed at the Académie Royale de musique in Paris.
- November 15 : The world premiere of the opera La Clemenza d'Augusto by Johann Joseph Fux with the libretto by Pietro Antonio Bernardoni takes place at the Court Theater in Vienna.
- Five stage works by Carlo Agostino Badia will be premiered in Vienna :
- L'amore vuol somiglianza
- L'Arianna
- Il Telemaco, ovvero Il valore coronato
- La concordia della Virtù e della Fortuna
- Enea negli Elisei
- In Hamburg three operas are Georg Bronner and Johann Mattheson listed first:
- Berenice (Libretto by Heinrich Hinsch after Apostolo Zeno )
- Death of the great Pan (libretto by Heinrich Hinsch, on the death of the opera founder Gerhard Schott , score lost)
- Victor Duke of the Normans ( pasticcio in three acts based on the libretto by Heinrich Hinsch, one act each by Bronner, Schieferdecker and Mattheson)
- Johann Mattheson also premiered the Singspiel in four acts Der noblemühige Porsenna .
Oratorio
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier - Judicium Salomonis , performed at the opening of the French Parliament
- Antonio Lotti - San Rinaldo
Instrumental music
orchestra
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Pirro Albergati
- Op. 8: Concerti varii da Camera a tre, quattro o cinque ( Modena , 1702)
Chamber music
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Giovanni Henrico Albicastro
- XII Sonate a violino solo col basso continuo, op.2 (lost since 1945)
- XII Sonata a violino e violone col basso continuo, op.3
- XII Suonate a tre, due violini e violoncello col basso per l'organo, op.4
Keyboard music
organ
- Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer - Ariadne musica neo-organoedum, op.4 (20 preludes and fugues for organ)
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Vocal music
Spiritually
- Pirro Albergati - Op. 9: Cantate spirituali a una, due e tre Voci con Strumenti (Modena, 1702)
- Friedrich Nicolaus Bruhns - St. John Passion (previously attributed to Reinhard Keizer)
- Francesco Scarlatti - Psalm 110 (Dixit dominus)
- Francisco Valls - Missa Scala Aretina
- Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow - Thanks to the father , cantata
Worldly
- Tomaso Albinoni - Cantate da camera a voce sola op.4 ( Venice )
Instrument making
- The violins Brodsky , The Irish Stradivarius , "Conte de Fontana, Peterlongo, Oistrach" , Lyall and King Maximilian Joseph are made in Antonio Stradivari's workshop .
- The organ builder Arp Schnitger completed the organ in the St. Salvatoris Church in Clausthal-Zellerfeld in the period 1699–1702 and the organ in the Academiekerk in Groningen (today in the Aa-Kerk) in the period 1700–1702 the construction of the organ for St. Martini in Estebrugge (Jork) started.
Born
- January 6 : José de Nebra , Spanish composer († 1768 )
- February 27 : Johann Valentin Görner , German composer († 1762 )
- March 13 : Burkhardt Tschudi , British harpsichord maker of Swiss origin († 1773 )
- March 27 : Johann Ernst Eberlin , German composer and organist († 1762 )
- May 17 : Johann Ernst Wenigk , German Lutheran theologian, clergyman and hymn poet († 1745 )
- June 14 : Johann Balthasar Reimann , German cantor, organist and composer († 1749 )
- July 7th : Maximilian Hellmann , Austrian cymbalist, timpanist and composer († 1763 )
- July 16 : Johann Schneider , German composer, organist and violinist († 1788 )
- July 22nd : Alessandro Besozzi , Italian composer and oboist († 1793 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Francisco António de Almeida , Portuguese composer († 1755 )
Died
- January 7th : Laurentius von Schnüffis , Austrian preacher, composer, poet and narrator (* 1633 )
- January 9 : Abraham van den Kerckhoven , Belgian organist and composer (* around 1618)
- July 6 : Nicolas Lebègue , French organist, harpsichordist and composer (* 1631 )
- July 16 : Étienne Loulié , French musician, pedagogue and music theorist (* 1654 )
- October 25 : Gerhard Schott , Hamburg lawyer and councilor, founder and director of the Opera at Gänsemarkt (* 1641 )
Exact date of death unknown
- José Cascante , Colombian composer (* around 1640)
- Giulio Cesare Corradi , Italian librettist (* around 1650)
- Louis Gaulard Dumesny , French opera singer with a tenor voice (* around 1650 )
- Jacob Hintze , German church musician (* 1622 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1702 - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1702 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files