Music year 1704
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Overview of the music years
Further events
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Events
- August 17th : Antonio Lotti becomes the successor of Giacomo Spada as first organist at St. Mark's Basilica in Venice.
- Evaristo Felice dall'Abaco is mentioned for the first time as a cellist as a chamber musician at the Munich court of Elector Maximilian II Emanuel .
- Johann Jacob Bach decides to work as an oboist , ie in the court orchestra of King Charles XII. from Sweden to kick. This opportunity arose because Charles XII. with his armies in the course of the Great Northern War in Poland had advanced to Saxony . There are suspicions that the Capriccio sopra la lontananza de il fratro dilettissimo in B flat major ( BWV 992) composed by his brother, Johann Sebastian Bach , refers to his brother's departure for Poland, but this has not been proven. It could also have been created on the occasion of the farewell to Johann Sebastian's school friend Georg Erdmann .
- At the end of the year, three orphaned second cousins of Johann Sebastian Bach move to Arnstadt , daughters of Johann Michael Bach . Bach developed a firm affection for the youngest, Maria Barbara Bach , who now lives in the mayor's house.
- Johann Mattheson received the post of court master in Hamburg , soon also secretary and correspondent of the English ambassador , which he would hold into old age and which ensured him a livelihood and a high social status.
- On December 5, 1704, during a performance of Mattheson's opera Cleopatra at the Hamburg Opera on the Gänsemarkt, there was an argument and duel between Georg Friedrich Handel and Mattheson. The latter later reported that the duel had only just gone off lightly because his "... blade cracked when hitting a broad, metal button on the opponent's skirt".
- Johann Christoph Pepusch went from Amsterdam to London and worked there as a violist and soon also as a composer, theater director, music theorist and organist.
- Andreas Silbermann begins his studies in French organ building with the court organ builder (Facteur d'orgues du Roy) François Thierry, a member of the well-known French organ building family Thierry in Paris . He will stay in Paris until 1706.
- Agostino Steffani is in his second year rector and curator at Heidelberg University .
- Georg Philipp Telemann is hired as music director by the Neukirche , the former university church of the city of Leipzig , after a successful application . However , he gives the associated organist position to students. Telemann received an offer from Count Erdmann II of Promnitz to succeed Wolfgang Caspar Printz as Kapellmeister at the court of Sorau in Niederlausitz . The city of Leipzig, which appreciates the new compositional style, then offered Telemann the Thomaskantorat and the successor to Johann Kuhnau . But Telemann soon leaves Leipzig.
- Antonio Vivaldi , who has been maestro di violino at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice since 1703 , also takes on the post of maestro di viola all'inglese. He will keep the post of instrumental teacher - with interruptions - until 1716, when he will be appointed musical director.
World premieres
Stage works
Opera
- After the New Year: Reinhard Keiser's opera The fallen and again exalted Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, a singspiel in three acts based on the libretto by Christian Friedrich Hunold is premiered.
- The comédie ballet Le carnaval et la folie by André Cardinal Destouches , based on a libretto by Antoine Houdar de la Motte , had its world premiere on January 3, 1704.
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October 20 : The world premiere of the opera Die unfortunate Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, or Die betrrogene Staats-Liebe by Johann Mattheson on the libretto by Friedrich Christian Feustking takes place at the Theater am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg.
Organ by Arp Schnitger in Godlinze, the Netherlands - Reinhard Keizer - Almira, Queen of Castilien (Singspiel in three acts; libretto by Friedrich Christian Feustking , based on Giulio Pancieri; score lost)
- Carlo Francesco Pollarolo - Irene
- Domenico Scarlatti - L'Irene (Dramma per musica; Naples; 32 arias and a duet have been preserved)
Oratorio
- Reinhard Keizer writes his oratorio The Bloody and Dying Jesus on the libretto by Christian Friedrich Hunold .
Instrumental music
Chamber music
- Johann Philipp Krieger - 6 suites: Funny field music for four wind instruments ( Nuremberg )
Instrument making
- Arp Schnitger builds the organs for the Dorpskerk (village church) in Eenum and the Dorpskerk in Godlinze .
- The violins known today as Sleeping Beauty , Betts and Liebig ex Schneiderhan are made in Antonio Stradivari's workshop.
Born
- January 5th : Johann Ernst Döring , German organ builder († 1787 )
- June 11 : José Antonio Carlos de Seixas , Portuguese composer and harpsichordist († 1742 )
- August 27 : Christoph Gottlieb Fröber , German cantor and composer († 1759 )
- September 28 : Maria Caterina Negri , Italian opera singer († after 1744 )
- October 2 : František Ignác Tůma , Czech composer († 1774 )
- December 31 : Carl Gotthelf Gerlach , German organist, composer and violinist († 1761 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Franz Anton Baumann , Austrian church musician and composer († 1750 )
- Carl Heinrich Graun , German composer and singer († 1759 )
- Claude Parisot , French organ builder († 1784 )
Died
- February 11 : Heiso Meyer , German bell and gun founder (* before 1650 )
- February 23 : Georg Muffat , French musician and composer (* 1653 )
- February 24th : Marc-Antoine Charpentier , French composer at the time of the Sun King Louis XIV (* 1643 )
- February 25 : Isabella Leonarda , Italian nun and composer (* 1620 )
- March 6 : Christian Alander , Swedish philosopher and music writer (* 1660 )
- April 11 : Georg Christoph Strattner , German church musician and composer (* 1644 or 1645 )
- May 3 : Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber , Bohemian violinist and composer (* 1644 )
- May 21 : Heinrich Elmenhorst , German theologian, hymn poet and librettist (* 1632 )
- May 28 : Konrad Feuerlein , German Lutheran theologian and hymn composer (* 1629 )
- September 6 : Francesco Provenzale , Neapolitan composer (* 1624 )
- November: Gottfried Keller , German-English musician and composer (* around 1650)
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1704 - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1704 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files