Music year 1719

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Music year 1719
The Markgrafentheater in Erlangen is inaugurated on January 10th and is now the oldest baroque theater in southern Germany.

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.
• In Köthen, Bach can compose for an excellent band. Prince Leopold has employed up to 17 musicians, some of whom come from the chapel of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I , which was dissolved in 1713 . Eight of the instrumentalists, including Christian Ferdinand Abel , are of soloist quality and have the rank of Cammermusicus. The prince equips his band with good instruments and sends Bach to Berlin to buy a new harpsichord. There Bach met the art-loving Margrave Christian Ludwig . In 1721 he will put together older and newer instrumental movements for him (two of which he probably composed in 1719) as Six Concerts Avec plusieures Instruments , which are therefore later called Brandenburg Concerts (BWV 1046-1051).
• January 1st : The congratulatory cantata Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre (BWV 134a) by Johann Sebastian Bach is performed for the first time.
• The seventh child of Maria Barbara Bach and Johann Sebastian Bach, Leopold Augustus, born in the previous year , dies.
• When Bach heard that George Frideric Handel was in his native Halle , he immediately set off from Koethen to the city just a few miles away to meet his much more famous musician colleague of the same age. After his arrival, however, he discovered that Handel had already left for England.

georg Friedrich Handel

• Spring: Georg Friedrich Handel , who, as the successor to Johann Christoph Pepusch, has been the house composer of the Earl of Carnarvon , who later became the Duke of Chandos, ends this position. Handel's works, which he composed during this period for the ducal residence of Cannons in Edgware, include the twelve Chandos Anthems as well as the first version by Esther and the completely new English version by Acis and Galatea (text: John Gay). In Cannons, Handel probably also completed the Suites de Pièces pour le Clavecin (1st collection) published by himself in 1720, as well as his Chandos Te Deum .
• Handel begins preparations for a new subscription- based opera company at King's Theater , the Royal Academy of Music .
• Handel travels to Dresden to recruit a singing troupe for this opera company, especially the castrated star Senesino , but is only partially successful: For the upcoming season he can only win the soprano Margherita Durastanti , whom he already knows from Italy ( Agrippina ).
• March 23 or April 3 : Georg Friedrich Handel's Passion Jesus, martyred and dying for the sin of the world ( Brockes Passion , HWV 48), based on a poetry by Hamburg native Barthold Heinrich Brockes , is premiered in Hamburg's cathedral .

Alessandro Scarlatti

• Alessandro Scarlatti , who was Kapellmeister of the Cappella Reale in Naples , stayed mainly in Rome from 1717 to 1722 . Here he will conclude the series of his operas with several works for the Teatro Capranica.
• Scarlatti's opera Cambise based on the libretto by Domenico Lalli will premiere in Naples, his opera Marco Attilio Regolo in Rome.

Domenico Scarlatti

• Domenico Scarlatti , who had been employed in Rome since 1709 by the exiled Polish Queen Maria Casimira Sobieska , who lived in Palazzo Zuccari , and who had also been maestro di capella at the Capella Giulia of the Vatican from 1713 , moved to Portugal . In Lisbon he became a music teacher and court conductor at the court of the pious and extravagant King John V , who also hired a number of papal singers and had the Vatican choir books copied. Scarlatti mainly has to deliver sacred vocal works and also writes some secular serenatas . He also teaches the younger brother of King Dom António (1695–1757) and the asthma sufferer of the Portuguese Princess Maria Bárbara de Bragança on the harpsichord, who turns out to be a gifted music lover.

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.
• During a visit to Dresden Telemann met Georg Friedrich Handel again and dedicated a collection of violin concertos to the violin virtuoso Pisendel .
• 1st Advent: The cantata Machet die Tore weit ( TWV 1: 1074) by Georg Philipp Telemann is premiered in Eisenach.

Antonio Vivaldi

• Antonio Vivaldi has been in Mantua since 1718 , where he mainly works as artistic director and opera composer in the service of Prince Philipp of Hesse-Darmstadt .
• Vivaldi composes the operas Il Teuzzone (RV 736, 1718–19), Tito Manlio (RV 738, 1718–19), Alceste / Die getreue Alceste (RV Anh. 77), Resistance that triumphs over hate and love (RV Anh. 57 , around 1719) and Heinrich der Vogler (RV Anh. 119)

Other biographical events

• March 1st : Geminiano Giacomelli becomes Kapellmeister at the court of Parma and from March 27th also at the Church of Madonna della Steccata. He shares his position with his teacher Capelli.
• July 28 : Arp Schnitger is buried in the St. Pankratius Church in Neuenfelde , next to the pulpit in the family grave.
• August 17th : Silvius Leopold Weiss gives a concert at the Köthener Hof as the “Lutenist from Düsseldorf”. Here he could have met Johann Sebastian Bach for the first time.
• August 20 : Francesco Maria Veracini plays in Moritzburg Castle for the wedding of the Elector of Saxony Friedrich August with Maria Josepha of Austria .
• Antonio Lotti

Opera house at the Zwinger, stage and orchestra. The drawing shows the performance of the opera Teofane by Antonio Lotti.

• September 3 : With the revival of the opera Giove in Argo by Antonio Lotti , the celebrations (“planetary festivals”) for the wedding of the Elector of Saxony Friedrich August and later King August III begin . of Poland with the daughter of Emperor Joseph I , Maria Josefa Benedikta Antonia Theresia Xaveria Philippine , Archduchess of Austria , Princess of Hungary and Bohemia in the specially built new opera house at the Zwinger in Dresden .
  • September 7th : Lotti's opera Ascanio ovvero Gl'odi delusi dal sangue is performed again as part of the planetary festivals .
  • September 13th : Lotti experiences his climax in Dresden with his opera Teofane . Its premiere is the main musical attraction of the planetary festivals.
  • October: The end of the wedding celebrations heralds the end of the first Italian opera at the Saxon court. Antonio Lotti and his wife Santa Stella are released from their Saxon service and leave Dresden. You will receive 160 ducats of travel money when you leave.
  • November: Lotti returns to Venice and never again composes operas, but chamber music or church music.
• Giovanni Battista Bononcini goes to London and becomes a composer at the Royal Academy of Music .
• Johann Friedrich Fasch , who held the post of "secretary" and chamber clerk in Gera from 1715 to 1719 , became organist and town clerk in Greiz from 1719 to 1721 .
• Reinhard Keizer was in Stuttgart from summer 1719 to November 1720 , where he participated in numerous musical events, but could not find a job, as Italian musicians were preferred at the Württemberg court.
• Johann Mattheson becomes Kapellmeister to the Duke of Holstein.
• Jean-Baptiste Morin becomes Kapell- und Kammermeister of the Abbess of Chelles , Louise-Adélaïde d'Orléans (1698–1743), daughter of Philip II.
• Giuseppe Pitoni becomes choirmaster at the Cappella Giulia in St. Peter in Rome .

Openings

Opera house at the Zwinger, longitudinal section through the auditorium. The engraving shows the performance of the opera Teofane by Antonio Lotti.

• January 10th : In the city ​​of Erlangen , located in the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Bayreuth , the Margrave Theater is inaugurated, which is now the oldest baroque theater in southern Germany.
• August 25 : The opera house at the Zwinger in Dresden is completed after almost a year of construction. The three-tier theater can hold up to 2000 visitors and is one of the largest European theaters of its time. The opera Giovi in ​​Argo by Antonio Lotti will be given for the opening on September 3rd . On September 13th, on the occasion of the celebration of the wedding of the Prince Elector of Saxony, later Elector Friedrich August II, with Maria Josepha of Austria, the world premiere of the opera Teofane , also by Antonio Lotti based on a libretto by Stefano Pallavicini . The house will experience its heyday during the reign of the opera-loving Elector Friedrich August II under the direction of Johann Adolph Hasse .

Foundations

• The Royal Academy of Music is founded in London under the auspices of King George I. While Johann Jacob Heidegger takes over the commercial management, Georg Friedrich Händel becomes her musical director.
• Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf founds what is now the world's oldest music publisher in Leipzig, the Breitkopf & Härtel company .

World premieres

Stage works

Opera

• January 22nd : The world premiere of the musical drama Sofonisba by Leonardo Leo takes place at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples .
• January 22nd: The Commedia per musica La forza della virtù by Francesco Feo based on the libretto by Francesco Antonio Tullio is performed for the first time in Naples.
• July: dramma pastorale Dafne by Antonio Caldara , the Caldara the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg Franz Anton Graf von Harrach has devoted, in Vienna premiered.
• August 21 : The world premiere of the opera Sirita by Antonio Caldara takes place in Vienna.
• September 13 : On the occasion of the marriage of Prince Elector Friedrich August II to Maria Josepha of Austria on August 20 in Vienna, the opera Teofane by Antonio Lotti based on a libretto by Stefano Pallavicini will be premiered in the newly opened Opera House am Zwinger in Dresden.
• Francesco Gasparini
  • Lucio Vero (first performance in Rome at the Teatro d'Alibert in January 1719)
  • Astianatte (first performance in Rome at the Teatro d'Alibert at Carnival 1719)
• Antonio Lotti - Li quattro elementi , carosello teatrale (Dresden)
• Benedetto Marcello - Spago e Filetta ( Intermezzo to the tragedy Lucio Commodo , first performance in Venice 1719?)
• Alessandro Scarlatti
  • Cambise (based on the libretto by Domenico Lalli ; world premiere in Naples)
  • Marco Attilio Regolo (based on the libretto by M. Noris; world premiere in Rome)
• Antonio Vivaldi
  • Il Teuzzone (RV 736, 1718–19)
  • Tito Manlio (RV 738, 1718–19)
  • Alceste / The faithful Alceste (RV Anh. 77, 1719)
  • The persistence that triumphs over hate and love (RV Anh. 57, around 1719)
  • Heinrich der Vogler (RV Anh. 119, 1719)

Oratorio

• Georg Friedrich Handel - Jesus tortured and dying for the sin of the world (Brockes Passion, HWV 48, world premiere on March 23 or April 3, 1719 in the cathedral church in Hamburg)
• Johann Mattheson
  • The fruit of the spirit (based on the libretto by Neumeister, Hamburg 1719)
  • Christi Wunder-Wercke with the weak believers (based on the libretto by Hoefft, Hamburg 1719)
• Antonio Vivaldi - Il padre sacrificator della figlia ovvero Jefte (RV Anh. 116, composed 1719?)

Instrumental music

Concerts

• Johann Sebastian Bach - Harpsichord Concerto in C minor (BWV 1060, composed around 1719)
• Willem de Fesch - Several Concerti and Concerti grossi op.3 (Roger / Amsterdam 1719)
• Antonio Vivaldi - Concerti that cannot be precisely dated

Chamber music

• Jacques Aubert - Livres de sonates pour violon et B. c., Op.1
• Jacques-Martin Hotteterre - L'Art de préluder sur la flûte traversière, sur la flûte à bec, sur le hautbois et autres instruments de dessus, op.7

Organ music

• Johann Sebastian Bach - Prelude and Fugue (BWV 547, composed 1719?)

Popular music

• Thomas Fleet - Mother Goose's Melodies For Children

Vocal music

Organ by Gottfried Silbermann for the Johanniskirche in Freiberg

Spiritually

• Georg Philipp Telemann - Cantata Make the Gates Wide (TWV 1074)

Worldly

• Giuseppe Matteo Alberti - Cantata Questo cuor ch'è dura ancora , for alto, strings and bc (Bologna 1719)
• Johann Sebastian Bach - Cantata Time that makes days and years (BWV 134a)
• Antonio Vivaldi - Cantata O mie porpore più belle (RV 685, composed 1719?)

Textbooks

• Johann Mattheson - Exemplary organist sample article from the basso ... . Hamburg 1719

Instrument making

Organ by Arp Schnitger for the Church of St. Laurentii in Itzehoe

• Arp Schnitger
  • completes the organ in St. Laurentii in Itzehoe and
  • begins with the construction of the organ in the Michaelskirche in Zwolle , which is completed by his sons Franz Caspar Schnitger and Johann Georg Schnitger.
• Andreas Silbermann completes the organ for the Marmoutier Abbey Church in Marmoutier.
• Gottfried Silbermann completes the construction of the organ for the Johanniskirche in Freiberg .
• The violin Wieniawski, Bower, the viola MacDonald and the violoncello Becker are made in Antonio Stradivari's workshop .

Born

• January 17 : Jean-Joseph Vadé , French composer and writer († 1757 )
• 0September 3 : Ferdinand Zellbell , Swedish composer († 1780 )
• October 13 : Marco Coltellini , Italian librettist, printer and tenor († 1777 )
• November 10 : Georg Philipp Kress , German composer and violinist († 1779 )
• November 14 : Leopold Mozart , German composer and musician, father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart († 1787 )
• November 23 : Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf , German music publisher and typographer († 1794 )
• December 27 : Johann Stapfer , Swiss Protestant clergyman, composer and university lecturer († 1801 )
• December: Johann Christoph Altnikol , German composer and organist († 1759 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• Josep Antoni Martí , Spanish composer († 1763 )
• Porporino , German-Italian singer († 1783 )

Died

• March 25th : Pietro Paolo Laurenti , Italian instrumentalist, singer and composer (* 1675 )
• June 11 : Johann Abraham Schmierer , German composer (* 1661 )
• July 21 : Robert Clicquot , French organ builder (* around 1645 )
• July 26th : Johann Georg Christian Störl , German conductor and organist (* 1675 )
• buried July 28th: Arp Schnitger , German organ builder (* 1648 )
• July: Johann Valentin Meder , German composer (* 1649 )
• September 19 : Joachim Tielke , German instrument maker (* 1641 )
• December 25 : Benedetto Vinaccesi , Italian composer and organist (* around 1666 )

Exact date of death unknown

• Johann Christoph Hart , German organ builder (* 1641 )
• Michael Mietke , Northern German harpsichord and harp maker (* between 1656 and 1671)
• André Raison , French organist and composer (* around 1640)
• Johann Speth , German organist and composer (* 1664 )
• Francesco Antonio Urio , Italian composer (* around 1631)

See also

Portal: Music  - Overview of Wikipedia content on music

Web links

Commons : Music 1719  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Commons : Opera Libretti 1719  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Antonio Vivaldi - Works sorted by date of origin. In: Klassika.info. Retrieved October 23, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Johann Sebastian Bach - Works sorted by date of origin. In: Klassika.info. Retrieved October 23, 2018 . 
3. ↑ See title page at Books.Google.de (accessed September 30, 2019)