Music year 1717

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Music year 1717
The painter Edouard Jean Conrad Hamman immortalized the world premiere of the Water Music by Georg Friedrich Händel on July 17th on canvas. You can see King George I of Great Britain together with Handel (left, with outstretched right arm) on a boat trip on the Thames, while the musicians play in the background.
The second Suite of Water Music by George Frideric Handel is performed for the first time on a pleasure trip by the British King George I on the Thames .

Events

Johann Sebastian Bach

  • Johann Sebastian Bach worked in Weimar as court organist and chamber musician at the court of Duke Wilhelm Ernst until the beginning of December .
  • During his tenure in Weimar from 1712 to 1717, Johann Sebastian Bach composed a collection of chorale- related organ pieces ( choral preludes ), known as the Orgelbüchlein (BWV 599–644).
  • Because of his excellent reputation as an organ appraiser, Bach is called in to appraise the organ in the Paulinerkirche in Leipzig ( disc organ).
  • August 5th : After the previous Hofkapellmeister Augustin Reinhard Stricker left his post in Koethen , Bach signs the contract as his successor in office, but without having asked for his release in Weimar beforehand. He accepts a fee of 50 thalers when signing the contract. In total, his annual income in the role of Kapellmeister is 400 thalers. There is also a rent subsidy of twelve talers.
  • August 7th : Bach is appointed Kapellmeister and Director of their Cammer-Musiquen in Köthen .
  • November 6th : When Bach subsequently asks for his release in Weimar, he does not receive his resignation, but is taken into custody in the district judge's room because of his “stubborn testimony”.
  • December 2 : Bach is released from prison and, in disgrace, from employment in Weimar.

georg Friedrich Handel

  • Georg Friedrich Handel , who has lived in London since October 1712 and traveled to Germany with King George I in 1716 , will return to Great Britain by summer at the latest.
  • After his return, he joined the Earl of Carnarvon , who later became the Duke of Chandos, as a resident composer . A progressive group of writers, including John Gay and Alexander Pope , gathers here . Handel's works, which he composed for the ducal residence of Cannons in Edgware, will include the twelve Chandos Anthems as well as the first version by Esther and the completely new English version of Acis and Galatea (text: John Gay). In Cannons, Handel probably also completed the Suites de Pièces pour le Clavecin (1st collection), self-published in 1720 , which contain, among other things, the well-known variations that will later be given the name The Harmonious Blacksmith ("The harmonious blacksmith"). In addition, during his stay he begins composing the Chandos Te Deum .
  • July 17th : The second suite of water music (Water Musick, HWV 348, 349 and 350) by George Frideric Handel, which he had composed on behalf of the king, is performed for the first time on a pleasure trip by the British King George I on the Thames . The king is so enthusiastic about the music that he has some parts played several times. The performance of the other two suites cannot be precisely dated.

Alessandro Scarlatti

  • Alessandro Scarlatti , who worked as Kapellmeister of the Cappella Reale in Naples , stayed mainly in Rome from 1717 (until 1722) . Here he will conclude the series of his operas with several works for the Teatro Capranica.

Domenico Scarlatti

Georg Philipp Telemann

Antonio Vivaldi

  • Antonio Vivaldi is the musical director (maestro de 'concerti) of the Ospedale della Pietà orchestra (one of four homes in Venice for orphan girls). The orchestra soon acquired a reputation that was legendary for the time and attracted numerous travelers to Italy.

Other biographical events

  • When the son of the Elector Augustus the Strong and later Elector Friedrich August von Sachsen was in Venice on the occasion of his Grand Tour and heard the music of Antonio Lotti there , he started negotiations with him and his wife Santa Stella in order to bring them to the court in Dresden where he intends to found an Italian opera. Lotti and his wife together receive a fee of 9,975 thalers. This means that they are paid as much as the later prima donna Faustina Bordoni and her husband Johann Adolph Hasse as the Saxon court conductor. Lotti will make his debut in Dresden on October 25th with the opera Giove in Argo .
  • Johann Georg Pisendel is in Italy and spends a year in Venice at the expense of his prince with Antonio Vivaldi, with whom he soon becomes a warm friend. Vivaldi will dedicate four sonatas, five concertos and a symphonia to him. These were probably made between 1717 and 1720 and are dedicated to “fatte p. Mr. Pisendel ".
  • From 2017 the Italian castrato Senesino is employed at the Dresden court .
  • The German composer and organist Johann Gotthilf Ziegler married Anna Elisabeth Krüger on May 4th . The marriage will result in five children, including the daughter Johanna Charlotte Ziegler (1725–1782), who emerges as an anacreontic poet.
  • In April, Domenico Zipoli , together with 52 other Jesuit missionaries, begins his journey to South America , where he arrives three months later and settles near Córdoba . In addition to continuing his theology and philosophy studies, he continues to devote himself to music. His compositions will become famous among mission members. Contemporary copies can be found in many libraries in Latin America.
  • The castrato Gaetano Berenstadt visits London for the first time, where he takes on the role of the evil Argante in the revival of Georg Friedrich Handel's opera Rinaldo, originally written for the bass Giuseppe Maria Boschi . Berenstadt also sings in Pyrrhus and Dimetrius (premiere on February 2 ), in Francesco Mancini's Vincislao, re di Polonia (the world premiere in Naples 1714 on March 14 ) and in the world premiere of Attilio Ariostis Tito Manlio on March 4. April .

Openings

World premieres

Stage works

Opera
Reinhard Keizer - The magnanimous Tomyris - title page of the libretto
  • July: The Singspiel in three acts The magnanimous Tomyris by Reinhard Keizer is premiered at the Theater am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg. The libretto is by Johann Joachim Hoë based on the Italian libretto L'amor di figlio non conosciuto by Domenico Lalli .
  • October 25: The opera Giove in Argo by Antonio Lotti based on the libretto by Antonio Maria Lucchini is premiered in Dresden.
  • November 4th : The world premiere of the opera The Kayser Trajanus by Reinhard Keizer, who conquered the fortress Transylvania-Weißenburg and triumphed over the Dacians, takes place at the Theater am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg. Here, too, the libretto comes from Johann Joachim Hoë.
  • December 11 : The Dramma per musica Lucio Papirio by Francesco Feo and Giuseppe Maria Orlandini based on the libretto by Antonio Salvi is premiered in Naples .
  • December 28 : The Singspiel in three acts Das bey seine Ruh und Gebüt einer Printzen Frolockende Lycien under the government of King Jobates and Bellerophon by Reinhard Keizer based on the libretto by Johann Joachim Hoë is premiered at the Theater am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg.
  • Antonio Maria Bononcini - La conquista del vello d'oro
Antonio Vivaldi - L'incoronazione di Dario - Title page of the libretto
  • Antonio Vivaldi
    • Penelope la Casta
    • L'Incoronazione di Dario

Instrumental music

Orchestral music

  • Giuseppe Matteo Alberti - VI Concerti a 5 stromenti , Amsterdam (around 1717), in it: Concerto for 3 violins, viola and B. c.
  • Willem de Fesch - Op. 2: Several concerti and concerti grossi (Roger / Amsterdam)
  • Georg Friedrich Händel - Water Music ( Water Musick , HWV 348, 349 and 350)
  • Antonio Vivaldi - 12 Violin and Oboe Concertos op.7

Chamber music

  • Tomaso Albinoni - Sonate a violino solo e basso continuo (Amsterdam, around 1717)
  • Marin Marais - Pièces à une et à trois violes, 4th book (Paris 1717; pieces for 1 and 3 solo viols with bc)
  • Johann Mattheson - The useful virtuoso . Twelve sonatas for violin or transverse flute and basso continuo (printed in Hamburg 1720)
Cover of the trio sonata collection by Pierre Danican Philidor, Paris, 1717
  • Pierre Danican Philidor
    • 3 suites à deux flûtes traversières seules avec 3 different suites dessus et basses pour les hautbois, flûtes et violons.
    • Trio, premier œuvre, contenant six suites.

Violin solo

Keyboard music

Vocal music

Spiritually

  • Georg Friedrich Handel - Chandos Te Deum in B flat major (HWV 281, composed 1717–18, world premiere in St. Lawrence's Church, Cannons)
  • Johann Gotthilf Ziegler - Cantata Christi Glieder, Christi Brothers

Worldly

  • Benedetto Marcello - Canzoni madrigalesche et arie per camera, op. 4 for 2–4 voices (Bologna)

Choreographies

  • John Weaver - The Loves of Mars and Venus (unknown composer)

Textbooks

  • Johann Mattheson - The Protected Orchester (Hamburg)
  • Alessandro Scarlatti - Discorso sopra un caso particolare di arte

Instrument making

Organ by Gottfried Silbermann in the Jakobikirche in Freiberg

Born

Date of birth saved

Exact date of birth unknown

Died

Date of death secured

Exact date of death unknown

Died around 1717

  • Domenico Cecchi , Italian opera singer and castrato (* around 1650–1655)

See also

Portal: Music  - Overview of Wikipedia content on music

Web links

Commons : Music 1717  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1717  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Georg Friedrich Händel - Works sorted by date of origin. In: Klassik.info. Retrieved October 23, 2018 .