Music year 1706
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Overview of the music years
Further events
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Marin Marais
As the director of the orchestra of the Académie royale de musique in Paris, Marais will stage his opera Alcione on February 18th . |
Antoine Houdar de la Motte
The libretto is by Antoine Houdar de la Motte based on the Alkyone story in Book 11 of Ovid's Metamorphoses |
Events
- April 26th : Alessandro Scarlatti , together with Bernardo Pasquini and Arcangelo Corelli under the pseudonym "Terpandro Politeio", is accepted into the "Accademia dell'Arcadia" in Rome , which, in the spirit of antiquity, is dedicated to the revival and maintenance of idyllic shepherd poetry. Scarlatti amazed the members of this well-educated circle with his talent for improvisation in composing and composing solo cantatas .
- September : Agostino Steffani is appointed titular bishop of Pegae .
- Around 1706 Johann Sebastian Bach wrote the cantata After you, Lord , one of his earliest church cantatas .
- In the course of the year, Bach also inspects the organ of the organ builder J. Albrecht in the New Church in Arnstadt in Thuringia and accepts it.
- Louis-Antoine Dornel succeeds François d'Agincourt as organist at the Sainte-Marie-Madeleine-en-la-Cité church in Paris .
- Georg Friedrich Händel composes the opera Florindo and Daphne in Hamburg , but it is so large that it has to be divided into two works: The happy Florindo and The transformed Daphne . The first performance of this double opera (the music of which has largely been lost) does not take place until the beginning of 1708 at the Theater am Gänsemarkt .
- After Handel had already rejected offers from noble patrons to travel to Italy several times , including probably one from Ferdinando de 'Medici , he traveled to Italy in the summer or autumn at his own expense. He leaves two boxes with compositions that are lost today.
- After several years at the Imperial Court in Vienna , the famous soprano Matteuccio has been in Venice since the end of 1705 to sing Flavio Bertarido, re de 'Longobardi , and Filippo, re della Grecia in Carlo Francesco Pollarolo's operas at the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo during the carnival season . Anna Maria Lisi , wife of the imperial court composer Carlo Agostino Badia, is also part of the party .
- Nicola Antonio Porpora completed his training at the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo in Naples as a student of Gaetano Greco and Ottavio Campanile and then entered the service of Prince Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt , the commander of the imperial troops in Naples.
- Jean-Philippe Rameau ended his position as organist in Clermont , went to Paris and worked closely with Louis Marchand . He becomes titular organist in several Paris churches and publishes his first collection of harpsichord pieces, 3 Livres de pièces de clavecin . Two more of these collections will follow in 1724 and 1726/27. ( Tambourine ? / I )
- Andreas Silbermann finished 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 .
- Georg Philipp Telemann leaves Sorau , which is threatened by the invasion of the Swedish army, and goes to Eisenach , probably on the recommendation of Count Promnitz, who is related to the Saxon ducal families .
World premieres
Stage works
Opera
- about 16 January : By the Venetian Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo is Carlo Francesco Pollarolos Opera Filippo, re della Grecia premiered it sing u. a. the soprano Matteuccio , Anna Maria Lisi (the wife of the imperial composer Carlo Agostino Badia ) and the tenor Antonio Borosini .
- February 18 : The world premiere of the opera Alcione by Marin Marais based on the libretto by Antoine Houdar de la Motte based on the Alkyone story in Book 11 of Ovid's Metamorphoses takes place at the Grand Opéra Paris . The main roles are sung by Françoise Journet (Alcione), M. Muraire (Céix) and Claude-Louis-Dominique de Chassé de Chinais (Pélée). The performance is a great success.
- July 6th : The opera Endimione by Giovanni Bononcini , a Favola per Musica, is premiered in the Palazzo di Belfonte near Vienna .
- June: At the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg is the opera The Neapolitan Fisher outrage or Masaniello furioso by Reinhard Keizer on the libretto by Barthold enemy premiered.
- October 11 : On the birthday of Frederick IV of Denmark , the three-act Singspiel La Costanza Sforzata, the forced consistency or The cunning revenge of Sueno by Reinhard Keizer on the libretto by Barthold Feind has its world premiere.
- During the year three more operas by Reinhard Keizer have premieres:
- La Fedeltà coronata or Die krönte Treue (Singspiel in three acts based on the libretto by Heinrich Hinsch ; first opera on the Hamburg stage with an Italian title; contains arias by Almira from 1704)
- Il Genio d'Holsatia, Introduzione al Fuoco arteficiale (Prologue to Almira based on the libretto by Barthold Feind )
- The serene Secretarius, or Almira, Queen of Castile (Singspiel in three acts based on the libretto by Friedrich Christian Feustking ; revised version of Almira from 1704; the aria Schürzgen with the Falbala was sung in the streets in 1708 )
- Antonio Lotti - Sidonio (Dramma per musica in 5 acts based on the libretto by Pietro Pariati in Venice )
- Francesco Mancini - Alessandro il Grande in Sidone (Dramma per Musica based on the libretto by Aurelio Aureli in Naples )
- Alessandro Scarlatti - Il Gran Tamerlano
Instrumental music
- Giuseppe Matteo Alberti - Sonata for 2 violins and B. c. (in: Corona di dodici fiori armonici , Bologna )
Keyboard music
harpsichord
- Jean-Philippe Rameau - Premier Livre de Pieces de Clavecin (1st book with harpsichord pieces )
organ
- Jean-Adam Guilain - Pièces d'orgue pour le Magnificat sur les huit tons différents de l'église (Organ pieces in two books; only four of the eight suites have survived today)
Vocal music
Spiritually
- Johann Sebastian Bach - After you, Lord, I long for (BWV 150, around 1706)
- Friedrich Nicolaus Bruhns - St. John Passion (previously attributed to Reinhard Keizer)
- John Gostling - " Gostling Manuscript " (a collection of 64 anthems , 17 by Henry Purcell , 23 by John Blow , 3 by Matthew Locke , 4 by Pelham Humfrey , 4 by Jeremiah Clarke , 4 by William Turner , 1 by William Child, 1 by Henry Aldrich, 3 by Thomas Tudway and a few others).
Worldly
- Jeremiah Clarke - birthday code for Queen Anna
Instrument making
- Antonio Stradivari builds the violin known today as Dragonetti .
- Arp Schnitger up in Berlin the organ in the Eosander Chapel in Charlottenburg Palace finished (destroyed in 1944), beginning with the construction of the organ in the St. Nicholas Church in Spandau.
- Andreas Silbermann and his brother Gottfried Silbermann complete the organ in the Collegium Wilhelmitanum in Strasbourg , which is no longer in existence.
Born
Date of birth saved
- April 6 : Louis de Cahusac , French playwright and librettist († 1759 )
- April 24 : Giovanni Battista Martini , Italian composer and music theorist († 1784 )
- August 25 : Johann Christian Pfennig , German organ builder († 1787 )
- September 21 : Jacob Wilhelm Lustig , Dutch composer, organist and music theorist († 1791 )
- October 18 : Baldassare Galuppi , Italian composer († 1785 )
Exact date of birth not known
- Johann Gottfried Donati , German composer and organist († 1782 )
Died
- January 13 : Johann Jacob Pagendarm , German cantor and composer (* 1647 )
- January 26th : Guillaume Poitevin , French serpentine wind player, conductor and composer (* 1646 )
- March 3 : Johann Pachelbel , German composer (* 1653 )
- April 5 : Christoph Egedacher , south German organ builder (* 1641 )
- June 30th : Jacques Boyvin , French organist and composer (* around 1653)
- August 14th : Christoph Donat , Saxon organ builder (* 1625 )
- September 12th : Eugenio Casparini , German organ builder (* 1623 )
- October 26 : Andreas Werckmeister , German musician and music theorist (* 1645 )
- December 2 : Johann Georg Ahle , German composer, organist, poet and Protestant church musician (* 1651 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Sebastiano Moratelli , Italian singer and composer (* around 1640)
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1706 - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1706 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ^ Flavio Bertarido, re de 'Longobardi (Carlo Francesco Pollarolo) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
- ^ Filippo, re della Grecia (Carlo Francesco Pollarolo) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
- ^ Filippo, re della Grecia (Carlo Francesco Pollarolo) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .