Music year 1724
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Autograph of the first page of the St. John Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach, which will be premiered on April 7th in the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig. |
Events
Johann Sebastian Bach
- Johann Sebastian Bach has been the Thomaskantor and musical director of the Thomaskirche in Leipzig since May 30, 1723 .
- Despite his departure from Koethen , Bach was allowed to continue to hold the title of Princely Koethenian Kapellmeister . Until the death of Prince Leopold von Anhalt-Köthen (1728) it still provided music for the festive days of the Princely House. From 1724 he also traveled several times to Köthen, where he met Prince Leopold and performed music for him.
- January 1 : World premiere of the cantata Singet dem Herrn ein neue Lied (BWV 190).
- January 2nd : World premiere of the cantata Show, dear God, like my enemy (BWV 153).
- January 6th : World premiere of the cantata They will all come from Saba (BWV 65).
- January 9 : World premiere of the cantata My dearest Jesus is lost (BWV 154).
- January 23rd : First performance of the cantata Herr, wie du willt, so schicks mit mir (BWV 73).
- January 30th : First performance of the cantata Jesus sleeps, what should I hope for (BWV 81).
- February 2nd : World premiere of the cantata Erfreute Zeit im neue Bunde (BWV 83).
- February 6 : World premiere of the cantata Take what is yours and go there (BWV 144).
- February 13 : World premiere of the cantata Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister (BWV 181).
- April 7th : The world premiere of the Johannes Passion (BWV 245) by Johann Sebastian Bach takes place on Good Friday in the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig.
- April 10 : World premiere of the cantata Delight yourselves, you hearts (BWV 66).
- April 11 : First performance of the cantata A Heart That Knows Its Jesus Living (BWV 134).
- April 16 : First performance of the cantata Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ (BWV 67).
- April 23 : World premiere of the cantata Du Hirte Israel, Hörre (BWV 104).
- May 7 : World premiere of the cantata Where are you going? (BWV 166).
- May 14 : World premiere of the cantata Verily, verily, I tell you (BWV 86).
- May 18th : The church cantata Whoever believes and is baptized (BWV 37) by Johann Sebastian Bach is premiered on the occasion of the feast of Ascension in Leipzig.
- May 21 : World premiere of the cantata They will cast a spell over you (BWV 44).
- May 29 : World premiere of the cantata Increased Flesh and Blood (BWV 173).
- May 30 : World premiere of the cantata Desired Freudenlicht (BWV 184).
- June 11th : First performance of the cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (BWV 20).
- June 18 : World premiere of the cantata Oh God, from heaven see therein (BWV 2).
- June 24th : World premiere of the cantata Christ our Lord came to Jordan (BWV 7).
- June 25th : World premiere of the cantata Oh Lord, poor me sinner (BWV 135).
- July 2 : World premiere of the cantata Meine Seel röst den Herren (BWV 10).
- July 9th : World premiere of the cantata Who only lets God rule (BWV 93).
- July 23 : World premiere of the cantata What do you want to grieve yourself (BWV 107).
- July 30th : First performance of the cantata Where the Lord God does not stop with us (BWV 178).
- August 6th : World premiere of the cantata Was I ask about the world (BWV 94).
- August 13 : First performance of the cantata Take from us, Lord, you faithful God (BWV 101).
- August 20th : World premiere of the cantata Herr Jesu Christ, du highest good (BWV 113).
- September 3 : World premiere of the cantata alone to you, Herr Jesu Christ (BWV 33).
- September 10th : First performance of the cantata Jesus, who thou art my soul (BWV 78).
- September 17th : World premiere of the cantata What God does is well done (BWV 99).
- September 24th : First performance of the cantata Liebster Gott, When will I die (BWV 8).
- September 29 : World premiere of the cantata Herr Gott, we praise you all (BWV 130).
- October 1 : World premiere of the cantata Oh, dear Christians, be of good cheer (BWV 114).
- October 8th : World premiere of the cantata Herr Christ, the Son of God (BWV 96).
- October 15th : World premiere of the cantata Where should I flee (BWV 5).
- October 22 : World premiere of the cantata Schmücke dich, o dear soul (BWV 180).
- October 29th : The church cantata Out of deep need I scream to you (BWV 38) by Johann Sebastian Bach has its world premiere under the direction of the composer in Leipzig. It is based on 200 years earlier incurred hymn of the same name by Martin Luther .
- November 5th : World premiere of the cantata Make yourself, my spirit, ready (BWV 115).
- November 12 : First performance of the cantata Wohl dem, who relies on his God (BWV 139).
- November 19 : World premiere of the cantata Oh how fleeting, oh how void (BWV 26).
- November 26th : World premiere of the cantata Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ (BWV 116).
- 3rd December : World premiere of the cantata Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (BWV 62).
- December 25 : First performance of the cantata Praise you, Jesus Christ (BWV 91).
- December 26th : First performance of the cantata Christum we should praise already (BWV 121).
- December 27 : World premiere of the cantata I am happy in you (BWV 133).
- December 31 : World premiere of the cantata Das neueborne Kindelein (BWV 122).
- Bach has an excellent reputation as an organ expert. He is called in for numerous new and reconstructed organs: for example in 1724 in Gera ( Fincke organ of the Salvatorkirche ) and in Stöntzsch (organ by JC Schmieder of the Laurentiuskirche)
- Johann Sebastian Bach becomes a father for the ninth time. The second child together with his second wife Anna Magdalena Bach , Gottfried Heinrich Bach (1724–1763), is born.
- When his nephew Johann Heinrich Bach needed help after the death of his thirteen year older brother Johann Christoph Bach , Johann Sebastian Bach took him in from 1724 to 1728 in Leipzig.
georg Friedrich Handel
- George Frideric Handel works in London as the musical director of the Royal Academy of Music , a subscription-based opera company at the King's Theater . He has lived in London at 25 Brook Street since July / August 1723 and lived here on two floors until his death in 1759. Almost all works created since 1723 are composed in this house. Preparations for the performances often take place in the Handel dining room .
- February 20 : Giulio Cesare in Egitto ( HWV 17), an Italian opera by Georg Friedrich Handel with the libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym based on GF Bussani, is successfully premiered at the King's Theater in London's Haymarket. The mezzo-soprano Senesino sings the title role, Cleopatra is played by Francesca Cuzzoni . Margherita Durastanti , Gaetano Berenstadt and Giuseppe Maria Boschi also sing .
- October 31 : The world premiere of the opera Tamerlano (HWV 18) by Georg Friedrich Händel takes place at the King's Theater in London. In this opera seria by Handel, too , the libretto is by Nicola Francesco Haym.
- The Nine German Arias (HWV 202-210) for solo voice, melody instrument and basso continuo by Handel from Barthold Heinrich Brockes ' natural lyric collection of poems, Earthly Pleasure in God, date from around 1724–26 .
Alessandro Scarlatti
- Alessandro Scarlatti , who mainly stayed in Rome from 1717 to 1722 and composed several operas for the Teatro Capranica there, spends his old age in Naples .
- Scarlatti's late sonatas for flute and strings were possibly composed in 1724-25 for his pupil Johann Joachim Quantz .
Domenico Scarlatti
- Domenico Scarlatti has been a music teacher and court orchestra director in Lisbon since 1719 at the court of the pious and extravagant King Johann V. Scarlatti. He mainly delivers 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.
- During his time in Portugal, Scarlatti made three trips to Italy, one of them in 1724. In Rome he met Farinelli and Johann Joachim Quantz.
Georg Philipp Telemann
- Georg Philipp Telemann has been Cantor Johannei and Director Musices of the city of Hamburg since 1721 , one of the most respected musical offices in Germany. In this position Telemann undertook to compose two cantatas per week and one passion per year, but in later years he would fall back on earlier works for his cantatas. He also composes numerous pieces of music for private and public occasions, such as memorial days and weddings. In addition, last year he took over the management of the Hamburg Opera on Gänsemarkt for an annual salary of 300 thalers and is rebuilding the Collegium musicum, which was founded by Matthias Weckmann in 1660 but is no longer performing .
- Telemann also takes on a position as Kapellmeister by default for the court of the Margrave of Bayreuth . From time to time he delivers instrumental music and an opera there every year.
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 .
- The operas La virtù trionfante dell'amore e dell'odio overo il Tigrane (RV 740) and Turno Aricino (RV Anh. 125) were probably composed in 1724.
Other biographical events
- Tomaso Albinoni composed for the name day of Emperor Charles VI. Il nome glorioso in terra, santificato in cielo .
- Gaetano Berenstadt left London after the 1723–1724 season and returned to Italy.
- Joseph Bodin de Boismortier moves from Perpignan to Paris .
- Sébastien de Brossard bequeathed his library in exchange for a pension to Louis XV. It forms the basic stock of the Fonds de musique ancienne of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- In London, Francesca Cuzzoni and Senesino sing as stars in the following productions:
- Season 1723/1724
- Vespasiano by Attilio Ariosti (January 17, 1724)
- Giulio Cesare in Egitto by Georg Friedrich Handel
- Calfurnia by Giovanni Bononcini (April 18, 1724)
- Season 1724/1725
- Artaserse by Attilio Ariosti (December 21, 1724)
- During the break after the end of the 1723/1724 season, Cuzzoni and other musicians from the Royal Academy of Music under the direction of Giovanni Battista Bononcini gave a guest performance in Paris and received from King Louis XV of France when she sang at a mass with him at Fontainebleau Palace has, a diamond-studded image of the ruler.
- Season 1723/1724
- At the beginning of his career, as is a popular tradition, the youthful Farinelli primarily appears in female roles, for example at Carnival 1724 in Naples as Salonice in Angelo Predieri's Scipione .
- Johann Adolph Hasse studies composition in Naples with Nicola Antonio Porpora and Alessandro Scarlatti.
- Antonia Margherita Merighi sings the role of Iarba in the premiere of Domenico Sarros Didone abbandonata at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples on February 1, and appears there in at least 18 other operas .
- Pietro Metastasio's first opera libretto Didone abbandonata will be performed in Naples with music by Domenico Sarro , with his patroness, the Roman prima donna Marianna Benti Bulgarelli , singing the title role.
- Agostino Steffani is elected Honorary President of the Academy of Antient Musick in London.
Openings
- October 15: Opening of the Teatro Nuovo in Naples with the opera Lo Simmele by Antonio Orefice .
World premieres
Stage works
Opera
- January 14th : The world premiere of the drama Il Vespasiano by Attilio Ariosti after Giulio Cesare Corradi takes place at the King's Theater in London.
- February 1 : Pietro Metastasio's libretto Didone abbandonata is performed for the first time in Naples in the setting by Domenico Sarro . The work, dedicated to Viceroy Michael Friedrich von Althann , was set to music over 60 times by the 19th century. Maria Anna Benti and Nicolo Grimaldi will sing the main roles at the premiere.
- February 20 : Giulio Cesare in Egitto (HWV 17), an Italian opera by Georg Friedrich Handel with the libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym, is successfully premiered at King's Theater in London's Haymarket. The mezzo-soprano Senesino sings the title role, Cleopatra is played by Francesca Cuzzoni. Margherita Durastanti, Gaetano Berenstadt and Giuseppe Maria Boschi also sing.
- April 18th : The world premiere of the opera Calphurnia by Giovanni Battista Bononcini takes place at the King's Theater in London.
- August 28 : The world premiere of Antonio Caldara's opera Andromaca takes place at the Teatro della Favorita in Vienna.
- October 31 : The world premiere of the opera Tamerlano (HWV 18) by Georg Friedrich Händel takes place at the King's Theater in London. In this opera seria by Handel, too , the libretto is by Nicola Francesco Haym.
- November 4th : World premiere of the opera Gianguir, imperatore del Mogol by Antonio Caldara at the Hoftheater in Vienna
- December 26th : Tommaso Albinoni's setting of Metastasios Didone abbandonata is premiered at the Teatro San Cassiano in Venice .
- Tomaso Albinoni - Il nome glorioso in terra, santificato in cielo
- Attilio Ariosti
- Aquilio consolo ( attributed by Friedrich Chrysander Ariosti; first performance in London)
- Artaserse (libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym based on Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati; world premiere in London)
- Geminiano Giacomelli - Ipermestra (world premiere at the Teatro San Giovanni Crisostomo in Venice)
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Reinhard Keizer
- The Cimbria shouting because of the banishment of the plagues on the day of Mr. Friedrich IV's birth at Dennemark etc. (Serenata; Libretto by Schwemschuch)
- The exultant Great Britain (Serenata; libretto by Schwemschuch; first performance on June 8, 1724)
- The avenging Cupid (Shepherd's game; libretto by Johann Ulrich König )
- Antonio Orefice - Lo Simmele (libretto by Bernardo Saddumene; world premiere in Naples)
- Georg Philipp Telemann - The newfangled lover Damon
- Leonardo Vinci - Turno Aricino
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Giustino (RV 717) is premiered in the Carnival 1723–24 in Rome in the Teatro Capranica. The role of prima donna Arianna is sung by the soprano and female actor Farfallino (Giacinto Fontana)
- La virtù trionfante dell'amore e dell'odio overo il Tigrane (RV 740, composed no later than 1724)
- Turno Aricino (RV app . 125)
Oratorio
- Johann Sebastian Bach - St. John Passion (BWV 245; world premiere on April 7, 1924 in the Nicolail Church in Leipzig)
- Johann Mattheson
- The loving and patient David (Hamburg)
- The heavenly Daniel (Hamburg) freed from the lions' ditch .
Instrumental music
Concerts
- Antonio Vivaldi - various concerts, the exact time of which, however, is not known.
Chamber music
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Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
- 6 Sonates a deux flûtes traversieres sans basse op.1 (Paris)
- 6 Sonates a deux flûtes traversieres sans basse op.2 (Paris)
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François Couperin
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Nouveaux concerts, ou Les goûts réunis , 10 instrumental concerts or suites for any instrumentation (published in 1724 as a continuation of the Concerts royaux ), including:
- Concert No. 8 in G “Dans le goût théâtral”
- Concert No. 9 in E “Il ritratto dell'amore”
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Les Apothéoses , suites en trio (publ. 1724):
- Le Parnasse ou l'apothéose de Corelli
- Concert en forme d'apothéose à la mémoire de l'incomparable M. de Lully
- La Paix du Parnasse & Essai de la réunion des Goûts François et Italy
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Nouveaux concerts, ou Les goûts réunis , 10 instrumental concerts or suites for any instrumentation (published in 1724 as a continuation of the Concerts royaux ), including:
Keyboard music
harpsichord
- Jean-François Dandrieu - Premier Livre de Pièces de clavecin (second and third books follow in 1728 and 1734; three "youthful" books as early as 1705)
- Jean-Philippe Rameau - Pièces de clavecin (second book; two other books were published in 1706 and 1726/27)
organ
- Johann Sebastian Bach - Fugue in C major (BWV 953, composed 1723–24)
Vocal music
Spiritually
- Tomaso Albinoni - Il nome glorioso in terra, santificato in cielo
- Johann Sebastian Bach - numerous cantatas:
- Oh God, look into it from heaven (BWV 2)
- Where should I flee to (BWV 5)
- Christ our Lord came to Jordan (BWV 7)
- Dearest God, when will I die (BWV 8)
- My soul lifts up the Lord (BWV 10)
- O eternity, you thunder word (BWV 20)
- Oh how fleeting, oh how void (BWV 26)
- Alone to you, Lord Jesus Christ (BWV 33)
- Whoever believes and is baptized (BWV 37)
- Out of deep need I cry to you (BWV 38)
- They will put you under their spell (BWV 44)
- Now come, the Gentile Savior (BWV 62)
- They will all come from Saba (BWV 65)
- Rejoice, hearts (BWV 66)
- Hold in the memory of Jesus Christ (BWV 67)
- Lord, as you will, so fate with me (BWV 73)
- Jesus, who thou my soul (BWV 78)
- Jesus sleeps, what should I hope for (BWV 81)
- Happy time in the new covenant (BWV 83)
- Verily, verily, I tell you (BWV 86)
- Blessed are you, Jesus Christ (BWV 91)
- Who only lets God rule (BWV 93)
- What do I ask about the world (BWV 94)
- Mr. Christ, the only Son of God (BWV 96)
- What God does is done well (BWV 99)
- Take from us, Lord, you faithful God (BWV 101)
- You Shepherd Israel, listen (BWV 104)
- What do you want to grieve (BWV 107)
- Lord Jesus Christ, you highest good (BWV 113)
- Oh, dear Christians, be of good cheer (BWV 114)
- Get ready, my spirit (BWV 115)
- Prince of Peace, Lord Jesus Christ (BWV 116)
- Christ we should already praise (BWV 121)
- The newborn child (BWV 122)
- Lord God, we all praise you (BWV 130)
- I am happy in you (BWV 133)
- A heart that knows its Jesus alive (BWV 134)
- Oh Lord, me poor sinner (BWV 135)
- Blessed are those who rely on their God (BWV 139)
- Take what is yours and go (BWV 144)
- Look, dear God, like my enemy (BWV 153)
- My dearest Jesus is lost (BWV 154)
- Where are you going (BWV 166)
- Elevated flesh and blood (BWV 173)
- Where the Lord God does not stay with us (BWV 178)
- Adorn yourself, dear soul (BWV 180)
- Light-minded fluttering spirits (BWV 181)
- Desired joy light (BWV 184)
- Sing a new song to the Lord (BWV 190)
- See, the guardian of Israel (BWV Anh. 15)
- See, a virgin is pregnant (BWV Appendix 199; composed 1724?)
- georg Friedrich Handel
- Motet Silete Venti (HWV 242) (1724?)
- Te Deum / Queen Caroline Te Deum (HWV 280, composed 1714, revised 1723–24)
- Benedetto Marcello - Estro poetico-armonico: parafrasi sopra li primi [e secondi] venticinque salmi (8 volumes, Venice 1724–26)
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Motet Canta in prato (RV 623, composed 1723–24)
- Motet O qui coeli terraeque (RV 631, composed 1723–24)
- other motets etc. a. that cannot be precisely dated.
Worldly
- Joseph Bodin de Boismortier - Cantata Les Quatre Saisons
Textbooks
- William Croft - Musica sacra
- Benedetto Marcello - Estro poetico-armonico: parafrasi sopra li primi venticinque salmi , vols. 1–4 (Venice)
Instrument making
- Elector Friedrich August I. (Augustus the Strong) decided in 1724 that Zacharias Hildebrandt may only take on those orders that Gottfried Silbermann had previously rejected. He ended a long legal battle between the two competing organ builders.
- Renatus Harris builds his last organ for St. Dionis Backchurch in the City of London.
- Zacharias Hildebrandt completes the organ in the Protestant village church in Hilbersdorf .
- The violins Sarasate , Rawark , Ludwig and Abergavenny as well as the cello Hausmann are made in Antonio Stradivari's workshop .
- Andreas Silbermann starts building the organ in the Protestant Church in Bischwiller . The organ was not completed until 1729, has been rebuilt several times since 1867 and is no longer considered a Silbermann organ.
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Gottfried Silbermann
- finished the construction of the organ in the Evangelical village church in Hilbersdorf and
- begins with the construction of the organ in the town church in Oederan .
Born
- February 26 : Gottfried Heinrich Bach , the first-born son from Johann Sebastian Bach's second marriage to Anna Magdalena Wilcke († 1763 )
- February 28 : Anton Römer , Austrian organ builder († 1779 )
- March 7 : Joseph Benda , Bohemian-German musician († 1804 )
- July 18 : Maria Antonia von Bayern , art patron and composer, painter and poet († 1780 )
- August 29 : Giovanni Battista Casti , poet, satirist and librettist († 1803 )
- September 14th : Ignaz Vitzthumb , Austrian composer and Kapellmeister († 1816 )
- October 1 : Giovanni Battista Cirri , Italian cellist and composer († 1808 )
- December 1 : Dismas Hataš , Czech composer († 1777 )
- December 8 : Claude Balbastre , French composer, organist and harpsichordist († 1799 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Johann Hinrich Klapmeyer , organ builder († 1792 )
Died
- January 5 : Polycarp Marci , German lawyer and librettist (* 1654 )
- January 9 : János Wohlmuth , Hungarian composer and organist (* 1642 )
- March 7th : Wolfgang Nicolaus Pertl , Austrian lawyer, musician and grandfather of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (* 1667 )
- May 21 : Antonio Salvi , Italian librettist (* 1664 )
- before June 7th: Johann Hugo von Wilderer , German composer (* 1670/71)
- June 22nd : Johann Theile , German composer, music teacher and conductor (* 1646 )
- June 23 : Emanuel Kegel , German composer (* 1655 )
- August 24 : Andreas Kneller , German composer (* 1649 )
- November 10 : Bartholomäus Crasselius , German Lutheran clergyman and hymn poet (* 1667 )
Exact date of death unknown
- John Abell , Scottish composer and lutenist (* 1652 )
- Jean Jacques Rippert , flute maker (* around 1645)
- Pietro Giacomo Rogeri , Italian violin maker (* 1665 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1724 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1724 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Antonio Vivaldi - Works sorted by date of origin. In: Klassika.info. Retrieved December 10, 2018 .
- ^ Giustino (Antonio Vivaldi) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
- ↑ a b Johann Sebastian Bach - Works sorted by date of origin. In: Klassika.info. Retrieved December 10, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Georg Friedrich Händel - Works sorted by date of origin. In: Klassik.info. Retrieved December 10, 2018 .