Music year 1705

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Music year 1705
Almira On January 8th, Georg Friedrich Händel's first opera Almira, Königin von Castilien will be premiered in Hamburg in the Theater am Gänsemarkt.

Events

  • January 8th : Georg Friedrich Händel's first opera Almira is premiered in Hamburg . Handel has thus stepped into the breach for the opera director Reinhard Keizer , who fled his creditors to Weißenfels , who cannot bring out his finished opera of the same name here because Handel received the composition commission in his absence. For the premiere, however, Keizer is back in Hamburg and complements Handel's opera with its own epilogue. The encounter with Reinhard Keizer is of crucial importance for Handel's development as a composer. Keiser's melodies and ideas accompanied him throughout his life and reappeared in numerous of his own works.
  • February 25th : After the great success of his Almira , Georg Friedrich Händel has his second opera with the title Love obtained through blood and murder, or: Nero, follow at short notice . This opera has only three performances, probably because of the weak libretto, and will then be canceled. While the score of this work has been lost, the preserved Almira, with its mixture of German and Italian form and language , offers an instructive example of the predominant form of opera at the Theater am Gänsemarkt .
  • March 17th : Tomaso Albinoni marries the singer Margherita Raimondi in Milan , who made her debut in Venice at the age of 15 , and settles with her in the Venetian parish of San Trovaso . The marriage will have three sons and four daughters. Margherita Albinoni also appears on the opera stage after her marriage, but with one exception ( I rivali generosi , Brescia 1715), apparently never in her husband's works.
  • June: Georg Philipp Telemann starts his work in Sorau . Count Erdmann II. Von Promnitz , his new employer, is a great admirer of French music and sees Telemann as a worthy successor to the Versailles music school, which was shaped by Jean-Baptiste Lully and André Campra , of whose compositions he brought back a few copies on a trip to France and Telemann is now studying. In Sorau Telemann meets Erdmann Neumeister , whose texts he later set to music and whom he will see again in Hamburg . On trips to Krakow and Pless he learned to appreciate the Polish and Moravian folklore, as it is probably performed in taverns and at public events.
  • November: Johann Sebastian Bach wanders more than 400 kilometers from Arnstadt to Lübeck for study purposes , in order, as the necrology says, "to listen to the famous organist at the Marienkirche Diedrich Buxtehuden", but possibly also to become the successor of the 70th year-old organist at St. Marien . For this he was granted four weeks' leave. He extended this until January 1706 and had himself represented as organist in Arnstadt by his cousin Johann Ernst Bach . The trip to Buxtehude gives Bach valuable musical impressions. It is very likely that Bach also played on the famous old dance of death organ in St. Mary's. Buxtehude's evening music , organ and piano works and his incomparable organ playing form an incentive for the young organist and composer. The first surviving organ and piano works by Bach will reveal the influence of Buxtehude. These include chorale preludes such as How beautifully the morning star shines ( BWV 739) and preludes, toccatas, partitas and fantasies.
    Reinhard Keizer - Octavia - title page of the libretto
  • Giuseppe Matteo Alberti becomes a member of the Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna .
  • On the recommendation of the King, Marin Marais is appointed to succeed André Campras as director of the orchestra of the Académie royale de musique . This enabled him to perform his masterpiece, the opera Alcione , on February 18, 1706 . Marais will hold the position of orchestra conductor until 1710.
  • Jean-Féry Rebel gets a job with the Vingt-quatre Violons du Roi at the French court. He served as court composer, from 1705 as maître de musique at the Académie royale.
  • Arp Schnitger moved to the farm of his father-in-law Hans Otte in Neuenfelde in 1705 at the earliest , which he had already acquired in 1693, and maintained another organ workshop there until his death in 1719, the so-called “Orgelbauerhof”.

World premieres

Stage works

Georg Friedrich Handel - Nero - title page of the libretto
Opera

Instrumental music

ensemble

  • Agostino Steffani
    • Les ouvertures, chacconnes et les autres airs à joüer ( Amsterdam ; around 1705; lost)
    • Sonate da camera for two violins, viola and basso continuo (Amsterdam; around 1705)
Organ in Accum by Arp Schnitger

Guitar solo

  • The anonymous Libro de diferentes cifras de guitarra contains more than 100 guitar works, including the earliest known fandango melody.

Vocal music

Instrument making

Born

Exact date of birth unknown

Died

See also

Portal: Music  - Overview of Wikipedia content on music

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