Music year 1720

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Music year 1720
Radamisto
Direction book for the world premiere of the opera Radamisto

On April 27th, George Frideric Handel's opera Radamisto will be premiered in London at King's Theater, Haymarket, in the presence of King George I.

Events

Johann Sebastian Bach

  • Bach's explanation of the decorations in the piano booklet for Wilhelm Friedemann 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.
  • January 1 : Bach performs the cantata Dich praise the lovely rays of the sun (BWV Anh. 6) from 1719 for the first time for the New Year's festival of the Principality of Anhalt-Köthen in Köthen .
    Johann Sebastian Bach - First Sonata for Violin Solo: Adagio (Autograph 1720)
    January 22nd : As a contribution to the musical education of his children, Bach begins the Clavierbüchlein for the eldest son Wilhelm Friedemann , which among other things contains the two-part inventions and three-part symphonies .
  • When Johann Sebastian Bach returns from Karlsbad after a two-month journey by the court , he learns that his wife Maria Barbara has died after a short illness and has already been buried.
  • In September 1720 the organist position at St. Jacobi in Hamburg , for which Bach had applied, becomes vacant. He is admitted to the audition by the Hamburg Council, but cancels, probably because taking over the position is linked to a substantial purchase price.
  • December 10th : The first performance of the cantata Heut is certainly a good day (BWV Anh. 7) on the occasion of the 26th birthday of Leopold von Anhalt-Köthen .
  • Johann Sebastian Bach wrote the fair copy of the sonatas and partitas for solo violin in Köthen . Today it is assumed that at least some of the early versions were made in Weimar (1708 to 1717). Comparisons of styles show that all compositions were created in the six years from 1714 to 1720 and that Bach then summarized them in calligraphic handwriting.
  • Bach visited the organ with 60 registers, four manuals and pedal, which was rebuilt and partly rebuilt by Arp Schnitger in St. Jacobi (Hamburg) from 1689–1693 .

georg Friedrich Handel

George Frideric Handel - Radamisto - Title page of the libretto - London 1720
  • George Frideric Handel is based in London as the musical director of the Royal Academy of Music , a new subscription-based opera company at the King's Theater .
  • April 27 : Handel's first and highly successful opera for the new Opera Academy, Radamisto is the first time in London at King's Theater, Haymarket, in the presence of King George I. listed. The libretto comes from Nicola Francesco Haym , who took the libretto L'Amor tirannico, o Zenobia by Domenico Lalli as a model.
  • In addition to Handel, the academy temporarily employs the composers Giovanni Bononcini and Attilio Ariosti . The audience is divided into parties that either support Handel or Bononcini. Especially in the early days, Bononcini's performances are more successful than Handel's.
  • Handel publishes his Suites de Pièces pour le Clavecin (1st collection), which among other things contain the well-known variations that were later given the name The Harmonious Blacksmith ("The harmonious blacksmith").

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.

Domenico Scarlatti

Georg Philipp Telemann

Antonio Vivaldi

Other biographical events

  • August 28 : Nicola Antonio Porpora , who has worked as a singing teacher at the Conservatorio di Sant'Onofrio in Naples since July 1715 , presents his student Farinelli (Carlo Broschi) for the first time in a private performance in the house of Principe della Toretta in the Festa teatrale Angelica e Medoro . The text comes from the still completely unknown Pietro Metastasio , who makes his debut as a librettist with it. One of the singers is the famous soprano Marianna Benti Bulgarelli , known as “la Romanina”, who becomes an important friend and patron of Metastasio.
  • Giovanni Battista Bononcini comes to London and becomes a member of the Royal Academy of Music until 1924 . He lived in London until 1732 and was one of George Frideric Handel's most important rivals.
  • Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner lived in Prague until 1720 , where he published several of his works.
  • Senesino, around 1720
    Johann David Heinichen wrote his only opera for the Dresden court, Flavio Crispo , for the carnival in 1720 . Due to a dispute with the two castrati Senesino and Matteo Berselli employed at the court, the work , which is already finished except for the final chorus, will not be performed. Without further ado, August the Strong dismisses the entire opera company , which Georg Friedrich Handel then hires to London for his Royal Academy of Music. Senesino did not come to London until a year later and stayed until the academy collapsed (1728) for a fee of £ 2,000 a year.
  • Reinhard Keizer worked 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.
  • Benedetto Marcello writes his satire Il teatro alla moda . In it he criticizes the excesses of the theater, its habits and its schematism. However, his criticism only affects the external appearance of an opera business that has become routine. The despotism of singing, the prima donna and castrato nuisance have become so prevalent that there is hardly any leeway for the music and the composer himself is being increasingly fettered. Marcello's satire brings the state of the Venetian opera in a nutshell.
  • Jean-Baptiste Senaillé is accepted into the ranks of the elite ensemble of the " Vingt-quatre Violons du Roy " founded by Jean-Baptiste Lully .
Antonio Vivaldi - La verità in cimento - Title page of the libretto - Venice 1720

World premieres

Stage works

Pietro Torri - Lucio Vero - title page of the libretto - Munich 1720
Antonio Vivaldi - Tito Manlio - Title page of the libretto - Rome 1720
Opera
ballet
  • World premiere of La Terpsichore by Jean-Féry Rebel at the Académie Royale in Paris.

Oratorio

Instrumental music

Concerts

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    • Violin Concerto in A minor BWV 1041 (composed around 1720)
    • Violin Concerto in E major BWV 1042 (composed around 1720)
  • Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner - Horæ pomeridianæ seu concertus cammerales , op.4 (Prague, six chamber concerts)
  • Antonio Vivaldi - Concerts which cannot be precisely dated.

Chamber music

  • Johann Sebastian Bach - 3 sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord obligato BWV 1027–1029 (composed around 1720?)
  • Marin Marais - Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris
  • Johann Mattheson - The useful virtuoso . Twelve sonatas for violin or transverse flute & basso continuo (printed in Hamburg 1720)

Violin solo

  • Johann Sebastian Bach - Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin BWV 1001-1006

Keyboard music

Harpsichord by Carl Conrad Fleischer

harpsichord

  • Georg Friedrich Handel - Suites de Pièces pour le Clavecin ..., Premier Volume (= 8 harpsichord suites HWV 426-433)

organ

  • Johann Sebastian Bach - Three Trios (BWV 1027a, composed around 1720)

Vocal music

Spiritually

  • Michel-Richard Delalande - Miserere mei Deus p. 27 (Grand Motet ; revised and expanded version of the early version from 1687)
  • Alessandro Scarlatti - Messa di Santa Cecilia

Worldly

Processional organ from Georgenried (Tegernsee)
Pianoforte by Bartolomeo Cristofori

Textbooks u. a.

  • Benedetto Marcello - Il teatro alla moda (Venice)
  • Johann Mattheson - The useful virtuoso (Hamburg)

Instrument making

Organ by Gottfried Silbermann in the Sophienkirche in Dresden

Born

Date of birth saved

Exact date of birth unknown

Born around 1720

Died

Date of death secured

Exact date of death unknown

See also

Portal: Music  - Overview of Wikipedia content on music

Web links

Commons : Music 1720  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1720  - 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 c d Johann Sebastian Bach - Works sorted by time of origin. In: Klassika.info. Retrieved October 23, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Georg Friedrich Händel - Works sorted by date of origin. In: Klassik.info. Retrieved October 23, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Booklet text by Lionel Sawkins on the CD: Delalande - Dies Irae p. 31 & Miserere p. 27 , La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe, 1991, pp. 12-15, here: 14