Music year 1718

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Music year 1718
As the 109th stage work by the composer Alessandro Scarlatti , the melodrama Telemaco was premiered in the Carnival season of 1718 at the Teatro Capranica in Rome.

Events

Johann Sebastian Bach

• Johann Sebastian Bach has been Kapellmeister and director of their Cammer music at the court of Prince Leopold von Anhalt-Köthen in Köthen since August 7, 1717 . Bach values ​​the young musical prince, who often takes part as a violinist in the orchestra and is obviously close to him personally.
• November 15 : Leopold Augustus Bach is born as the seventh child of Maria Barbara Bach and Johann Sebastian Bach. The boy's godparents are Prince Leopold and his siblings August Ludwig and Eleonore Wilhelmine .
• December 10th : On the occasion of Prince Leopold's 24th birthday , Bach performs his cantata Lobet den Herrn, all his hosts (BWV Appendix 5). The libretto is by Christian Friedrich Hunold .

georg Friedrich Handel

• Georg Friedrich Handel has lived in London since October 1712 . He has been the resident composer of the Earl of Carnarvon , later Duke of Chandos, since summer 1717 , a position previously held by Johann Christoph Pepusch . 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"). He also completed his Chandos Te Deum during his stay , which was premiered at St. Lawrence's Church in Cannons.
• Early summer: Georg Friedrich Händel composes the Masque Acis and Galatea and the first version of the oratorio Esther .

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.
• February: The melodrama Telemaco by Alessandro Scarlatti based on the libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capece has its world premiere at the Teatro Capranica in Rome.
• November 4th : World premiere of the opera Ifigenia in Aulide by Alessandro Scarlatti in Vienna .
• November 26th : World premiere of the opera Il trionfo dell'onore by Alessandro Scarlatti at the Teatro dei Fiorentini in Naples .

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 .
• Since 1713 Scarlatti has also been maestro di capella at the Capella Giulia of the Vatican .
• Carnival: The dramma per musica Berenice Regina di Egitto overo Le Gare d'Amore, e di Politica by Domenico Scarlatti and Nicola Antonio Porpora based on the libretto by Antonio Salvi will be premiered in Rome at the Teatro Capranica.

Georg Philipp Telemann

• Georg Philipp Telemann is the city's music director and bandmaster of the Barfüßer and Katharinenkirche in Frankfurt am Main . Telemann also takes over the organization of the weekly concerts and various administrative tasks of making exchange Company to Frauenstein in the house Braunfels on the Liebfrauenberg where he also lives.
• During his time in Frankfurt Telemann composed, in addition to the cantatas, oratorios , orchestral and chamber music , much of which is published, as well as music for political ceremonies and wedding serenades. However, he does not find the opportunity to publish operas, although he continues to write for the Leipzig Opera.
• Georg Philipp Telemann published his first autobiography at the suggestion of the composer and music scholar Johann Mattheson . Two more autobiographies will follow in 1729 and 1740.

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.
• After disputes in Venice, Vivaldi moved to Mantua , where he mainly worked as artistic director and opera composer in the service of Prince Philipp von Hessen-Darmstadt .

Other biographical events

• Geminiano Giacomelli marries Francesca Marchi in Piacenza . The marriage will have nine children.
• Johann Adolph Hasse , who began to study singing in Hamburg in 1714 , is recommended by the poet Johann Ulrich von König as a tenor at the Oper am Gänsemarkt .
• Francesco Manfredini dedicates his Concerti op. 3 to Prince Antonio I Grimaldi of Monaco , whom he met in Venice in 1711 and in whose service he entered.
• Johann Mattheson becomes music director at the Hamburg Cathedral , a position he will hold until 1728.
• Johann Joachim Quantz settles in Dresden. He took flute lessons from the French flautist Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin and began to compose.
• After the death of his father Francisco Vaz, 14-year-old Carlos Seixas takes over his position as organist in the Sé Velha Cathedral in Coimbra .
• Silvius Leopold Weiss is employed as a royal chamber lutenist at the court of the Elector of Saxony , August the Strong, in Dresden. He is one of the best-paid musicians at court in Dresden and will stay there until the end of his life.
• The old castrato Gaetano Berenstadt wants to return to Italy after his debut in London (with Handel) in 1717. On the way he made a stopover in Dresden and worked for one year in the service of the Saxon Elector Friedrich August I, better known as August the Strong . For this one-year commitment, Berenstadt receives a fee of 3000 thalers.
• After the death of the organist A. Meißner, Johann Gotthilf Ziegler was appointed sole director musices and organist at the Ulrichskirche in Halle . He will keep this office until his death, although he has received several appointments from abroad, for example from Reval , which, however, are made less attractive by increased salaries.

Openings / laying of the foundation stone

• September 9th : In preparation for the planned wedding celebrations of Prince Elector Friedrich August with Maria Josepha of Austria , the foundation stone for the Opera House at the Zwinger is laid in Dresden .

World premieres

Stage works

Opera

• February: The melodrama Telemaco by Alessandro Scarlatti based on the libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capece has its world premiere at the Teatro Capranica in Rome.
• February: For the carnival season Antonio Lotti brings his new Dramma per musica in 3 acts Ascanio ovvero Gl'odi delusi dal sangue (libretto by Antonio Maria Lucchini ) to the stage in the Redoutensaal in Dresden .
• Carnival: The dramma per musica Berenice Regina di Egitto overo Le Gare d'Amore, e di Politica by Domenico Scarlatti and Nicola Antonio Porpora based on the libretto by Antonio Salvi will be premiered in Rome at the Teatro Capranica. Only five arias have survived from the opera.
• Early summer: Georg Friedrich Händel composes the Masque Acis and Galatea.
• October 1st : World premiere of the opera Temistocle by Nicola Porpora on the libretto by Apostolo Zeno in Vienna.
• November 4th : World premiere of the opera Ifigenia in Aulide by Alessandro Scarlatti in Vienna.
• November 26th : World premiere of the opera Il trionfo dell'onore by Alessandro Scarlatti at the Teatro dei Fiorentini in Naples.
• December 14th : the tragedy lyrique Sémiramis by André Cardinal Destouches premieres at the Paris Opera; the libretto is by Pierre-Charles Roy.
• Jacques Aubert - Les Animaux raisonnables (Opéra comique, libretto by Louis Fuzelier and Marc-Antoine LeGrand, world premiere in Paris)
• Antonio Maria Bononcini
  • Astianatte
  • Griselda
• Toussaint Bertin de la Doué - Le Jugement de Paris ( Pastorale héroïque )
• Antonio Vivaldi
  • Armida al campo d'Egitto (RV 699, no later than 1718)
  • Scanderbeg (RV 732, no later than 1718)
  • Il Teuzzone (RV 736, 1718–19)
  • Tito Manlio (RV 738, 1718–19)

Oratorio

• Georg Friedrich Händel - Esther (HWV 50a)
• Johann Mattheson
  • Jesus tortured and dying for the sin of the world (libretto by Barthold Heinrich Brockes , Hamburg)
  • The most gratifying triumph or the overcoming Immanuel ( Hamburg)
  • The happily arguing church ( Hamburg)
  • The divine provision over all creatures (Hamburg 1718 or 1721)

Instrumental music

orchestra

• Francesco Manfredini - Concerti grossi op.3

• Johann Sebastian Bach - Violin Concerto in D minor (BWV 1043, composed around 1718?)
• Antonio Vivaldi - Concerts which cannot be precisely dated

Chamber music

• Johann Christoph Pepusch - 6 Concerts à 2 Flûtes à Bec, 2 Flûtes traversieres, Haubois ou Violons & Basse continue , Op. 8 (Amsterdam, c. 1717–1718)

Organ by Andreas Silbermann for the Eglise Sainte-Aurélie church in Strasbourg

Organ music

• Johann Sebastian Bach - Prelude and Fugue BWV 546 (composed around 1718?)

Vocal music

Spiritually

• Johann Sebastian Bach - Praise the Lord, all his hosts (BWV Appendix 5)
• Francesco Feo - Missa defunctorum (Requiem)
• Georg Friedrich Handel - Chandos Te Deum in B flat major (HWV 281, composed 1717–18, world premiere in St. Lawrence's Church, Cannons)

Worldly

• Johann Sebastian Bach - Cantata Der Himmel thought 'auf Anhalt's fame and luck (BWV 66a)

Organ by Gottfried Silbermann for St. George's Church in Großkmehlen

Instrument making

• Andreas Silbermann makes the organs for the Ste-Aurélie and Église Sainte-Madeleine churches in Strasbourg.
• Gottfried Silbermann
  • finishes the construction of the organ for St. George's Church in Großkmehlen ,
  • begins with the production of the organ for the Johanniskirche in Freiberg
  • begins with the construction of the organ for the Sophienkirche in Dresden and
  • begins the construction of the organ for the town church St. Georg in Rötha .
• The violins San Lorenzo , Maurin , Viotti ex Rosé and Firebird ex Saint Exupéry are made in Antonio Stradivari's workshop .

Other

• Benedetto Marcello - Sonetti: pianger cercai non già dal pianto onore (Venice 1718)
• Georg Philipp Telemann - autobiography

Born

• January 18 : Christoph Ludwig Fehre , German composer and organist († 1772 )
• March 24th : Leopold August Abel , German violinist, composer and painter († 1794 )
• baptized June 27th: Wenzel Raimund Birck , Austrian composer and organist († 1763 )
• September 25 : Nicola Conforto , Italian composer († 1793 )
• November 10 : Anton Laube , Bohemian composer and church musician († 1784 )
• November 21 : Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg , German music theorist and critic († 1795 )

Died

• February 27 : Václav Karel Holan Rovenský , Czech composer (* 1644 )
• March 13 : Friedrich Nicolaus Bruhns , North German composer (* 1637 )
• July 27th : Johann Schorn , Salzburg lute and violin maker (* 1658 )

Exact date of death unknown

• Giulio Taglietti , Italian violinist and composer (* around 1660)

See also

Portal: Music  - Overview of Wikipedia content on music

Web links

Commons : Music 1718  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Commons : Opera Libretti 1718  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Antonio Vivaldi - Works sorted by date of origin. In: Klassika.info. Retrieved October 23, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Georg Friedrich Händel - Works sorted by date of origin. In: Klassik.info. Retrieved October 23, 2018 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Johann Sebastian Bach - Works sorted by date of origin. In: Klassika.info. Retrieved October 23, 2018 .