Music year 1721
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 Johann Sebastian Bach compiles older and newer instrumental movements as “ Six Concerts Avec plusieures Instruments ” and dedicates them to the Margrave of Brandenburg on March 24th. The concerts were later given the name Brandenburg Concerts by Philipp Spitta (BWV 1046–1051). |
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.
- March 24th : Johann Sebastian Bach puts together older and newer instrumental sets as Six Concerts Avec plusieures Instruments and thus ends his work on his Brandenburg Concerts (BWV 1046-1051), which he dedicates to the art-loving Margrave Christian Ludwig von Brandenburg-Schwedt . Bach had met the margrave in Berlin in 1719. The dedication of the Brandenburg Concerts to Christian Ludwig von Brandenburg-Schwedt may be seen in connection with Bach's search for a new job. Bach does not seem to have received a thank-you letter or salary from Christian Ludwig von Brandenburg, at least there is no document that provides information on this.
- December 3 : Johann Sebastian Bach, whose first wife Maria Barbara Bach died in 1720, marries Anna Magdalena , the youngest daughter of the princely court and field trumpeter of Saxony-Weißenfels Johann Kaspar Wilcke, who came to the Köthener court as a soprano in June 1721 was. The second marriage will have 13 children, most of whom will die in childhood.
georg Friedrich Handel
- 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 .
- 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.
- Georg Friedrich Handel was doing well financially at the time, and business with his own music was flourishing. For example, he is involved in the sale of tickets and sheet music. The pension he receives from the English royal family only accounts for about a quarter of his income. Apart from the South Sea Bubble , through which Handel also lost a lot of money in 1721, he handled his wealth skillfully and carefully, for example investing in government bonds from the Bank of England .
- April 15 : The dramma per musica Il Muzio Scevola with music by Filippo Amadei (Act 1), Giovanni Bononcini (Act 2) and Georg Friedrich Handel (Act 3) to a libretto by Paolo Antonio Rolli by Silvio Stampiglia has its world premiere by the Royal Academy of Music at the King's Theater in the Haymarket in London.
- December 9th : Georg Friedrich Handel's dramma per musica Floridante with the libretto by Paolo Antonio Rolli based on La costanza in trionfo by Francesco Silvani is premiered at the King's Theater in the Haymarket in London and is well received by the audience.
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.
- In January Alessandro's last opera, Griselda, based on the libretto by Apostolo Zeno based on Griseldi's from Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron, will be premiered at the Teatro Capranica in Rome. Scarlatti describes Griselda in the preface to the printed libretto himself as his 114th opera. Since women are forbidden on the stages of Rome, all roles are interpreted as usual by men or castrati : The prima donna Griselda is sung by Giacinto Fontana known as " Farfallino " , the seconda donna Costanza by the young Giovanni Carestini and the actor in the leading male role of the Gualtiero is the famous old castrato Antonio Bernacchi .
- Scarlattis completes his Mass Santa Cecilia , which is one of the first attempts in the style that will culminate in the great masses of Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven .
Domenico Scarlatti
- Domenico Scarlatti is a music teacher and court conductor in Lisbon at the court of the pious and extravagant King Johann V. Scarlatti, who 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 , who had been the municipal music director and bandmaster of the Barfüßer and Katharinenkirche in Frankfurt am Main since 1712 , accepts the offer to succeed Joachim Gerstenbüttel as Cantor Johannei and Director of Music for the City of Hamburg , one of the most respected musical offices in Germany. Presumably Barthold Heinrich Brockes and Erdmann Neumeister suggested it. Telemann came into contact with the Hanseatic city earlier, however, as he was already involved in one or two operas for the opera on the Gänsemarkt . As the city's musical director, Telemann works, among other things, at the five large Protestant Lutheran city churches - with the exception of the cathedral , for which Johann Mattheson is responsible.
- October 16 : Telemann's official inauguration takes place in Hamburg.
- In his new position Telemann undertook to compose two cantatas per week and one passion per year, but in later years he used earlier works for his cantatas. He also composes numerous pieces of music for private and public occasions, such as memorial days and weddings. The office of Cantoris Johannei is also linked to an activity as a music teacher at the Johanneum; Telemann does not, however, fulfill his obligations to extra-musical lessons himself. He is also rebuilding the Collegium musicum, which was founded by Matthias Weckmann in 1660 but is no longer performing . He sells the tickets personally.
Antonio Vivaldi
- Antonio Vivaldi has been working in Mantua since 1718 , where he mainly works as artistic director and opera composer in the service of Prince Philipp of Hesse-Darmstadt .
- His operas Arianna e Teseo (RV Anh. 78) and Ulysses (RV Anh. 126) date from 1721 and his opera La Silvia (RV 734) will be completed this year at the latest.
Other biographical events
- Giuseppe Matteo Alberti , who has been a member of the Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna since 1705 , is appointed chairman ( principe ) of the Accademia Filarmonica for the first time , a role that he will play a total of six times until 1746.
- Tomaso Albinoni's wife , the singer Margherita Raimondi, dies on August 22 of an intestinal inflammation.
- the soprano Francesca Cuzzoni is under contract in the Carnival season 1721–1722 together with the contralto Vittoria Tesi , the two castrati Antonio Bernacchi and Gaetano Berenstadt and the castrato Giovanni Ossi at the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo in Venice .
- Johann Adam Birkenstock , who has had a job in the Kassel court orchestra since 1709, becomes its solo violinist.
- Antonio Maria Bononcini becomes Maestro di Cappella in his native Modena .
- The 11-year-old King Louis XV dances in the Palais des Tuileries . on October 22nd in the world premiere of the Opéra-ballet Les éléments with music by André Cardinal Destouches and Michel-Richard Delalande .
- Farinelli makes his public debut in the Carnival 1721 at the Roman Teatro Alibert in the opera Eumene by Nicola Antonio Porpora . The sensational success of his master student also gave Porpora's career a strong boost.
- Johann Friedrich Fasch worked as an organist and town clerk in Greiz from 1719 to 1721 .
- Reinhard Keizer returned to Hamburg in August , but turned to Copenhagen at the end of the year , where he had already sought in vain to be raised to the nobility in 1704. This time he was appointed Royal Danish Kapellmeister and performed the opera Ulysses in Copenhagen .
- In addition to his time-consuming legal labor, Pietro Metastasio writes an epithalamium (wedding poem ) with almost 100 punchings and one of his first music-dramatic texts, the Serenata Endimione , which is performed at the wedding of his patroness Princess Pinelli di Sangro with the Margrave Belmonte Pignatelli.
- Giuseppe Tartini is entrusted with the management of the orchestra of the Basilica of Saint Anthony (Padua) .
- Pietro Locatelli makes his debut as a composer.
- Johann Adolph Hasse is moving from Hamburg to Braunschweig , where his first opera Antioco with him in the title role will be performed in the opera house on Hagenmarkt on August 11th .
World premieres
Stage works
Opera
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Manuscript of Scarlatti's last opera Griselda (1721). You can see the page of the 1st scene, 1st act.
- January 28th : The world premiere of the opera Der patient Socrates by Georg Philipp Telemann takes place at the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg.
- January: Alessandro Scarlatti's last opera Griselda based on the libretto by Apostolo Zeno (based on Griseldis from Giovanni Boccaccio's Decamerone ) premieres at the Teatro Capranica in Rome.
- February 6th : The opera Alessandro in Sidone by Francesco Bartolomeo Conti based on the libretto by Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati is premiered in Vienna .
- April 15 : The dramma per musica Il Muzio Scevola with music by Filippo Amadei (Act 1), Giovanni Bononcini (Act 2) and Georg Friedrich Handel (Act 3) to a libretto by Paolo Antonio Rolli by Silvio Stampiglia has its world premiere by the Royal Academy of Music at the King's Theater in the Haymarket in London.
- May 20 : The opera L'odio e l'amore by Giovanni Battista Bononcini premieres at the King's Theater in London.
- May 30th : The libretto Endimione by Pietro Metastasio is premiered in Naples in the setting by Domenico Sarro for the wedding of the Prince of Belmonte, Antonio Pignatelli, with Anna Francesca Pinelli di Sangro .
- August 11 : The first opera by Johann Adolph Hasse , Antioco, based on the libretto by Apostolo Zeno, Pietro Pariati, premieres in Braunschweig in the opera house on Hagenmarkt , with Hasse in the title role.
- August 28 : Nicola Antonio Porpora's setting of Pietro Metastasio's libretto Gli orti esperidi is premiered in Naples on the birthday of Empress Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel .
- August 28 : On the birthday of Empress Elisabeth Christine , the five-act Dramma per musica Meride e Selinunte by Giuseppe Porsile is premiered at the Teatro della Favorita in Vienna. The libretto is by Apostolo Zeno
- October 1 : The opera La via del saggio by Francesco Bartolomeo Conti based on the libretto by Pietro Pariati is premiered in Vienna.
- October 4th : The world premiere of the opera Il germanico Marte by Antonio Caldara takes place in Salzburg .
- October 15 : The world premiere of the opera Il tempo fermato, componimento da camera by Giuseppe Porsile takes place in Vienna.
- October 22nd : World premiere of the Opéra-ballet Les éléments with music by André Cardinal Destouches and Michel-Richard Delalande in the Palais des Tuileries . The 11-year-old King Louis XV is dancing .
- November 4th : The premiere of the opera Ormisda re di Persia by Antonio Caldara takes place at the Court Theater in Vienna.
- November 26th : The world premiere of the musical drama Arianna e Teseo by Leonardo Leo takes place at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples.
- December 9th : Georg Friedrich Handel's dramma per musica Floridante with the libretto by Paolo Antonio Rolli based on La costanza in trionfo by Francesco Silvani is premiered at the King's Theater in the Haymarket in London and is well received by the audience.
- December 18 : The opera in three acts with the epilogue Cloris and Tirsis by Reinhard Keizer and Francesco Bartolomeo Conti is premiered in Copenhagen .
- Jacques Aubert
- Giovanni Battista Bononcini - Crispo
- Nicola Porpora - Eumene (libretto by Apostolo Zeno, world premiere in Rome)
- Antonio Vivaldi
- La Silvia (RV 734)
- Arianna e Teseo (RV Annex 78)
- Ulysses (RV Anh. 126)
Oratorio
- Antonio Vivaldi - L'adorazione delli tre re magi al bambino Gesù (RV 645, composed before 1722)
- Johann Mattheson
- The divine provision over all creatures (Hamburg 1718 or 1721)
- The bloodthirsty wine press-treadmill and the son of man raised by the earth (Hamburg)
- The erring and corrected Sünden-Schaaf (Hamburg)
- Giuseppe Porsile - l zelo di Nathan (libretto by G. Velardi; world premiere in the Hofkapelle in Vienna)
Instrumental music
Concerts
- Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concerts (dedication score from 1721)
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 for 2 horns, 3 oboes, bassoon, violino piccolo, strings and bc (BWV 1046, composed?)
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 for trumpet, oboe, recorder, violin, strings and bc (BWV 1047, composed around 1718)
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 for strings and bc (BWV 1048, composed around 1718)
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 for violin, 2 recorders, strings and bc (BWV 1049, composed 1719–1720)
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 for harpsichord concertato, violin, transverse flute, strings and bc (BWV 1050, composed 1720–1721)
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 for strings (violas, viols) and bc (BWV 1051, composed around 1718)
- Pietro Locatelli - Concerti grossi op.1 (dedicated to Monsignore D. Camillo Cybo / De Duchi Di Massa, È Carrara & / Patriarca Di Constantinopoli)
Organ by Andreas Silbermann for Sankt Simon and Judas in Ottrott
- Antonio Vivaldi - various concerts that cannot be precisely dated
Chamber music
- Giuseppe Matteo Alberti - Sonate a violino e basso op.2 (Bologna 1721, reprinted London 1729 as op.3)
- Jacques Aubert - Livres de sonates pour violon et B. c. op. 2
- Jean-Baptiste Senaillé - Quatrième Livre de Sonates à violon seul avec la basse continue (Paris)
Vocal music
- Alessandro Scarlatti - Santa Cecilia Fair
- Antonio Vivaldi - Motets a. a., without exact dating
Textbooks
- Johann Mattheson - The Researching Orchester (Hamburg)
Instrument making
- Zacharias Hildebrandt completes his masterpiece, the organ of the Nikolaikirche Langhennersdorf .
- The sons of Arp Schnitger , who died in 1719 , Franz Caspar Schnitger and Johann Georg Schnitger, complete the construction of the organ in the Michaelskirche in Zwolle .
- Andreas Silbermann
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Gottfried Silbermann
- completes the construction of the organ for the town church St. Georg in Rötha ,
- begins the construction of the organ for the Marienkirche in Rötha and
- starts building the organ for St. Johannis in Chemnitz .
- The violins Lady Blunt and Sinsheimer, Iselin are made in Antonio Stradivari's workshop .
Born
- April 1 : Pieter Hellendaal , Dutch composer, organist and violinist († 1799 )
- April 24 : Johann Philipp Kirnberger , German music theorist and composer († 1783 )
- June 7th : Barbara Campanini , Italian ballet dancer († 1799 )
- October 24 : Quirino Gasparini , Italian composer and cellist († 1778 )
- December 28 : Friedrich Rudolf Dalitz , German organ builder in Danzig († 1804 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Louis Anseaume , French librettist († 1784 )
- John Garth , English composer († 1810 )
Died
- February 2 : Johann Tobias Gottfried Trost , Central German organ builder (* 1651 )
- February 7th : Daniel Vetter , German organist and composer (* 1657 )
- February 22nd : Johann Christoph Bach , German organist, eldest brother of Johann Sebastian Bach (* 1671 )
- April 10 : Joachim Gerstenbüttel , German composer (* 1647 )
- July 12th : Antonio Giannettini , Italian organist, conductor and composer (* 1648 )
- July 26 : Samuel Jacobi , German cantor and composer (* 1652 )
- August: Jacques Paisible , French recorder player and composer (* around 1656 )
- August: Petrus Laurentius Wockenfuß , German cantor and composer (* 1675 )
- September 3 : Johann Anton Losy von Losinthal , Bohemian imperial official, composer and lutenist (* around 1645)
- October 28 : Johann Conrad Vogel , organ builder from Upper Palatinate (* 1656 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1721 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1721 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ^ Griselda (Alessandro Scarlatti) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
- ↑ a b c d e Antonio Vivaldi - Works sorted by date of origin. In: Klassika.info. Retrieved October 23, 2018 .
- ^ Front page of the libretto on the Gallica website of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (accessed September 27, 2019)
- ^ Front page of the libretto on the Gallica website of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (accessed September 27, 2019)
- ↑ a b Johann Sebastian Bach - Works sorted by date of origin. In: Klassika.info. Retrieved October 23, 2018 .