Music year 1711
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Overview of the music years
Further events
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Antonio Vivaldi became a European celebrity with the concert collection L'estro armonico op. 3. |
Events
Johann Sebastian Bach
- Johann Sebastian Bach works in Weimar as court organist and chamber musician at the court of Duke Wilhelm Ernst .
georg Friedrich Handel
- Georg Friedrich Handel , who since June 1710 as Kapellmeister at the court of Hanover the Elector Georg Ludwig is busy, 1711 spends the entire year in London and irritates be made to the court of Hanover agreed vacation maximum.
- February 24th : Handel's first version of the opera Rinaldo is premiered with extraordinary success at the Queen's Theater in London . The libretto is by Giacomo Rossi, based on Aaron Hill and La Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso . As successful as the music is, the stage effects used are controversial, of which there are many and which critics condemn as childish and absurd. During a parable aria in which the birds are the object of comparison, sparrows are allowed to fly onto the stage. The well-known saraband aria Lascia ch'io pianga comes from the opera, with a theme that Handel used in Almira and Il Trionfo .
Alessandro Scarlatti
- Alessandro Scarlatti , who works as Kapellmeister of the Cappella Reale in Naples, deals with the instrumental music that he had neglected until then . In 1715 he will be able to publish the 12 symphony di concerto grosso .
Domenico Scarlatti
- Domenico Scarlatti has worked in Rome since 1709 with the exiled Polish Queen Maria Casimira Sobieska , who lives in Palazzo Zuccari , for whose private stage he has composed six operas, as well as at least one cantata and one oratorio over the years .
- From 1711 to 1714 Scarlatti worked with the librettist Carlo Sigismondo Capece and the set designer Filippo Juvarra . The collaborative works include Tolomeo , Tetide in Sciro and Amor d'un Ombra .
- January 19 : The opera Tolomeo et Alessandro, ov ero La Corona Disprezzata by Domenico Scarlatti based on the libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capece is premiered in Rome.
- The world premiere of the opera L'Orlando, overo la Gelosa Pazzia by Domenico Scarlatti on the libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capece based on Ludovico Ariosto takes place in Rome.
Georg Philipp Telemann
- Georg Philipp Telemann has been employed in Eisenach as concertmaster and cantor at the court of Duke Johann Wilhelm since December 1708 and directs an orchestra he founded .
- Telemann composed concerts in Eisenach until 1712 for various ensembles, cantatas as well as serenades , church music and “ operettas ” for festive occasions. He usually writes the text for it himself. As a baritone , he participates in the performance of his own cantatas.
- January: Telemann's wife, a daughter of the composer Daniel Eberlin , dies of childbed fever while giving birth to their first daughter .
Antonio Vivaldi
- Antonio Vivaldi , who has been employed as maestro di violino since 1703 and also as maestro di viola all'inglese in the orchestra of the Ospedale della Pietà (one of four homes in Venice for orphan girls), interrupted his activity as an instrument teacher from February 1709 to September 1711. Then he is appointed musical director of the orchestra (maestro de 'concerti) . The orchestra soon acquired a reputation that was legendary for the time and attracted numerous travelers to Italy.
- After two sonata collections printed in Venice (12 trio sonatas op. 1, printed in 1705, and 12 violin sonatas, op. 2, printed in 1709), Antonio Vivaldi is joined by the concert collection L'estro armonico (for example: "The harmonic inspiration") op. 3 , printed in 1711 a European celebrity.
Other biographical events
- Johann Ludwig Bach heads the Meiningen court orchestra as Kapellmeister, having worked here as " Capell Inspector " from 1709 onwards . In this function, he is responsible for the administration of the instruments and the composition of secular works.
- Arcangelo Corelli prepared the publication of his 12 Concerti grossi op. 6 from 1711 at the latest .
- Johann Friedrich Fasch writes operas for the Naumburg Opera House and plays in the orchestra of the Opernhaus am Brühl .
- Thanks to Nicolas de Grigny's widow , the second edition of the composer's collection of organ works Premier livre d'orgue (The First Organ Book) appears.
- During a stay in Venice , Francesco Manfredini made the acquaintance of Prince Antonio I Grimaldi of Monaco , in whose service he served as Kapellmeister for sixteen years.
- During a trip undertaken in 1711, Johann Georg Pisendel made the personal acquaintance of Georg Philipp Telemann in Eisenach and Christoph Graupner in Darmstadt.
- The Queen's court trumpeter and lutenist John Shore invents the tuning fork .
- Gottfried Silbermann builds his first organ in Germany for his hometown Frauenstein and waives his wages, "because Frauenstein is my fatherland, to honor God and to love the Church". In the same year Silbermann opened his organ building workshop in Freiberg , where the superintendent Christian Lehmann encouraged and supported him.
- John Walsh becomes the music publisher of George Frideric Handel. He made great profits from printing and publishing the opera Rinaldo .
- Years after his retirement from the opera stage, the famous Altkastrat Pistocchi sings at a festival in honor of St. Gaudentius in Novara as primo uomo next to his pupil Gaetano Berenstadt , who later that year also performed in Luca Antonio Predieri's opera La virtù in trionfo, o sia La Griselda occurs.
World premieres
Stage works
Opera
- February 9th : The world premiere of the opera The secret events of Henrico IV, King of Castilien and Leon or The divided love by Johann Mattheson based on the libretto by Johann Joachim Hoë takes place in Hamburg.
- May 1 : In Mexico City , the opera La Partenope by Manuel de Sumaya premiered.
- November 14th : The opera La forza del sangue by Antonio Lotti based on the libretto by Francesco Silvani , a dramma per musica in 3 acts, is premiered in Venice.
- The first version of the Singspiel in three acts The haughty, fallen and again sublime Croesus by Reinhard Keizer on the libretto by Lucas von Bostel after Il Creso by Nicolò Minato has its world premiere at the Opera am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg.
- Tomaso Albinoni - Il nascimento dell'Aurora (around 1711)
- Johann Friedrich Fasch - Clomire
- Francesco Gasparini - Tamerlano
- George Frideric Handel - Rinaldo
- Antonio Lotti - Il tradimento traditor di se stesso (Libretto by Francesco Silvani ; Dramma per musica in 3 acts; Venice)
- Nicola Antonio Porpora - Flavio Anicio Olibrio
- Domenico Scarlatti
- Tolomeo et Alessandro, overo La Corona Disprezzata
- L'Orlando, overo la Gelosa Pazzia (music lost)
Instrumental music
Concerts
- Antonio Vivaldi - L'Estro armonico op. 3, 12 violin concertos for 1–4 solo violins and orchestra (published in Amsterdam )
- Francesco Manfredini - Concerto con una o due trombe
Chamber music
- Tomaso Albinoni - Trattenimenti armonici per camera op. 6, Amsterdam (c. 1711)
- Marin Marais - Pièces de Viole , 3rd book
Vocal music
Spiritually
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Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre - Cantates françoises, livre II (Paris, 1711), therein:
- Adam
- Le temple rebasti
- Le deluge
- Joseph
- Yep
- Samson
Instrument making
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Arp Schnitger
- completes the organ of the old church (Pellworm) ,
- completes the organ in the Martinikerk in Sneek and
- builds the organ in the Hervormde Kerk in Ferwert .
- Gottfried Silbermann - organ in the town church in Frauenstein
- The violins known today under the names Liegnitz , Lady Inchiquin and Antonius as well as the cellos Duport and Mara are made in Antonio Stradivari's workshop .
Born
- January 12 : Gaetano Latilla , Italian composer († 1788 )
- January 29 : Giuseppe Bonno , Austrian composer († 1788 )
- May 8 : Johann Sebastian Diez , German composer, choir director and teacher († 1793 )
- June 23 : Giovanni Battista Guadagnini , Italian violin maker († 1786 )
- July 26 : Lorenz Christoph Mizler , German philosophical scholar, writer, physician, printer and dealer, music theorist and scientist († 1778 )
- September 11 : William Boyce , English composer († 1779 )
- September 18 (baptized): Ignaz Holzbauer , Austrian composer († 1783 )
- November 5 : Kitty Clive , English actress, soprano and author († 1785 )
- December 4th : Maria Barbara de Bragança , student and lifelong friend of Domenico Scarlatti , harpsichord virtuoso and later patron of Farinelli and the Italian Opera in Madrid. († August 27, 1758)
- December 25 : Jean Cassanéa de Mondonville , French violin virtuoso and composer († 1772 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Panna Czinka , Hungarian violinist / Roma musician († 1772 )
- Davide Perez , Italian opera composer († 1778 )
- John Francis Wade , English copyist († 1786 )
Died
- February 17th : José de Vaquedano , Spanish priest, composer and conductor (* 1642 )
- August 21 : Caspar Hopf , Saxon violin maker (* 1650 )
- September 27 : Christian Geist , German organist and composer (* around 1650)
- November 1st : Christian Demelius , German composer (* 1643 )
- November 3 : Ferdinand Tobias Richter , German composer and organist (* 1651 )
- Johann Nicolaus Hanff , German organist and composer (* 1663 ) December:
See also
Web links
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