Music year 1725

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Music year 1725
Antonio Vivaldi, engraving by FM La Cave (1725). Antonio Vivaldi published his violin concertos The Four Seasons in 1725 as part of the collection Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (The risk of harmony and invention).

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.
• Bach met the lyricist Christian Friedrich Henrici alias Picander for the first time, probably at the beginning of 1725 , who would provide him with the text for the St. Matthew Passion , which was premiered in 1927 .
• January 1st : First performance of the Bach cantata Jesu, now be priced (BWV 41).
• January 6th : Johann Sebastian Bach performs the church cantata Dearest Immanuel, Duke of the Pious (BWV 123) for the first time.
• January 7th : The church cantata I won't leave my Jesus (BWV 124) is performed for the first time.
• January 14th : World premiere of the Bach cantata Oh God, how many Herzeleid (BWV 3).
• January 21 : World premiere of the Bach cantata Was mein Gott wants, das g'scheh always (BWV 111).
• January 28th : First performance of the Bach cantata I have in God's heart and mind (BWV 92).
• February 2nd : World premiere of the Bach cantata With Fried and Freud I go there (BWV 125).
• February 4th : World premiere of the Bach cantata Receive us, Lord, at your word (BWV 126).
• February 11 : World premiere of the Bach cantata Herr Jesu Christ, Wahr 'Mensch und Gott (BWV 127).
• February 12th : On the occasion of the wedding of the Proviant- u. Raft administrators Christoph Friedrich Lösner and Johanna Elisabeth Scherling, Johann Sebastian Bach for the first time performs his cantata His blessing flows like a stream (BWV Anh. 14).
• February 23 : World premiere of the Bach cantata Escape, Disappear, Escape, Your Worries (BWV 249a).
• March 25th : On Palm Sunday the world premiere of Bach's church cantata How beautifully the morning star shines (BWV 1).
• March 30th : Bach's Johannes Passion (BWV 245), including the arias Himmel reiße, Welt erhebe (BWV 245a), Zerschmettert mich (BWV 245b) and Oh, don't wind up so (BWV 245c), is performed again in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig .
• April 1st : Johann Sebastian Bach's Easter Oratorio (BWV 249) premieres.
• April 2 : Johann Sebastian Bach writes the church cantata Stay with us for Easter Monday , because evening will come (BWV 6).
• April 8 : World premiere of the Bach cantata In the evening of the same Sabbath (BWV 42).
• April 15 : World premiere of the Bach cantata Ich bin ein gute Hirt (BWV 85).
• April 22nd : World premiere of the Bach cantata You will cry and howl (BWV 103).
• April 29th : World premiere of the Bach cantata It's good that I'm going (BWV 108).
• May 6th : First performance of the Bach cantata So far you have not asked anything in my name (BWV 87).
  

  Page from the second little music book Little music book by Anna Magdalena Bach (1725), No. 1: JS Bach, Partita in A minor BWV 827, p. 2
• May 10 : Johann Sebastian Bach's church cantata Auf Christi Himmelfahrt alone (BWV 128) is premiered in Leipzig in his second year in office. The text is from Christiana Mariana von Ziegler .
• May 13th : World premiere of the Bach cantata They will cast a spell over you (BWV 183).
• May 20th : First performance of the Bach cantata Who loves me will keep my word (BWV 74).
• May 21 : World premiere of the Bach cantata So God Loved the World (BWV 68).
• May 22nd : World premiere of the Bach cantata He calls his sheep by name (BWV 175).
• May 27th : First performance of the Bach cantata Es ist ein Defiant und demersten Ding (BWV 176).
• July 29th : World premiere of the Bach cantata Tuerechnung! Donnerwort (BWV 168).
• August 3 : The secular cantata Zerreißet, Zerprenget, smashed the crypt (BWV 205) is premiered. The text of the cantata comes from Christian Friedrich Henrici, called Picander . The cantata was commissioned by Leipzig students for the extremely popular university professor August Friedrich Müller .
• August 19 : The cantata Praise the Lord, the Mighty King of Honor (BWV 137) is premiered.
• August 26th : World premiere of the Bach cantata You, whom you call yourself by Christ (BWV 164).
• August 27 : The world premiere of the cantata Wünschet Jerusalem Glück (BWV Anh. 4) takes place on the occasion of the change of council. The text comes from Christian Friedrich Henrici (also called Picander ).
• October 31 : World premiere of the Bach cantata Gott, der Herr, ist Sonn und Schild (BWV 79).
• December 25th : World premiere of the Bach cantata Our mouth is full of laughter (BWV 110).
• December 26th : World premiere of the Bach cantata Selig ist der Mann (BWV 57).
• December 27 : World premiere of the Bach cantata Sweet Consolation, My Jesus is Coming (BWV 151).
• December 30th : World premiere of the Bach cantata Gottlob! now the year is coming to an end (BWV 28).
• Johann Sebastian Bach becomes a father for the tenth time. The third child together with his second wife Anna Magdalena Bach , Christian Gottlieb Bach (1725–1728), is born.
• Johann Sebastian Bach and his wife put together the second booklet for Anna Magdalena Bach .

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 13th : Handel's Dramma per musica Rodelinda is premiered with great success by the Royal Academy of Music at King's Theater on London's Haymarket. The libretto is by Nicola Francesco Haym, based on a play by Pierre Corneille adapted by Antonio Salvi .

Alessandro Scarlatti

• Alessandro Scarlatti spends his old age in Naples . A few months before his death, he met the German flutist and composer Johann Joachim Quantz and gave Johann Adolph Hasse composition lessons. He dies on October 24, 1725 .

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, the first in 1724 and the second in 1725 shortly before his father's death. On his second trip he met Johann Joachim Quantz and Johann Adolph Hasse.

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, in the previous year he took over the management of the Hamburg Opera on Gänsemarkt for an annual salary of 300 thalers , rebuilds the Collegium musicum, which was founded by Matthias Weckmann in 1660 but has since ceased to perform, and also takes on a position as Kapellmeister for the court of the Margrave of Bayreuth . From time to time he delivers instrumental music and an opera there every year.
• In order to meet the requirements of the very numerous smaller churches as well as teaching purposes for domestic use, Telemann also publishes collections of cantatas with chamber music ensembles, such as The Harmonic Service (1725–26). A continuation of this will appear in 1731–32.
• Even in his new hometown, Telemann did not let the connections to Thuringia be severed. He served the Duke of Saxony-Eisenach as an agent from 1725 and reported to the Eisenacher Hof about news from Hamburg. Not until 1730 will he hand over this position to the doctor Christian Ernst Endter .
• September 27 : The musical comedy Pimpinone or Telemann's unequal marriage is premiered at the same time as a German adaptation of Handel's Tamerlano at the Theater am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg. The libretto is by Johann Philipp Praetorius based on a model by Pietro Pariati . The work arouses enthusiasm in the audience and becomes Telemann's greatest stage success.

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 .
• Vivaldi publishes the violin concertos The Four Seasons as part of his Opus 8 collection under the title Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione ( The risk of harmony and invention ).

Other biographical events

• Willem de Fesch , who worked at the Stadsschouwburg in Amsterdam between 1710 and 1725 , took over the position of Kapellmeister at the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp from Alphonse d'Eve . He will hold this office until 1731.
• Johann Adolph Hasse , who traveled to Italy from 1722 to 1725 and studied composition with Nicola Antonio Porpora and Alessandro Scarlatti in Naples, performed his Serenade Antonio e . In September 1725 at the country estate of Carlo Carmignano, the royal councilor at the court of Naples Cleopatra , in which Vittoria Tesi and Farinelli sing.
• The nineteen-year-old Giovanni Battista Martini is appointed Kapellmeister of the Franciscan Church in Bologna , where he attracts attention with his compositions. He founded a music school, the Liceo Musicale di Bologna , which after his death was continued by his pupil Stanislao Mattei until the 19th century and trained many well-known artists from Italy and abroad.
• Giovanni Battista Pergolesi studies at the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo in Naples. His main teachers there are Gaetano Greco and Francesco Durante .
• Nicola Antonio Porpora takes up an official position as head of the Ospedale degli Incurabili in Venice . His operatic output, which had been rather sporadic up to then, now leads to a long series of works composed in rapid succession with many arias especially for castrati voices, which are performed on all the important stages in Italy.
• In London Senesino takes part in the following opera productions:
  • Season 1724–1725
    • Tamerlano by Georg Friedrich Handel (October 31, 1725) - as Andronico
    • Giulio Cesare in Egitto by Georg Friedrich Handel (revived January 2, 1725) - in the title role of Giulio Cesare
    • Artaserse by Attilio Ariosti (December 21, 1724) - role unclear
    • Rodelinda by Georg Friedrich Handel (February 13, 1725) - as Bertarido
    • Dario by Attilio Ariosti (April 10, 1725)?
    • L'Elpidia, ovvero Li rivali generosi ( pasticcio , music largely by Leonardo Vinci , May 11, 1725) - as Olindo
• After the death of Alessandro Scarlatti, Leonardo Vinci succeeds him as Pro-Vicemaestro of the Royal Court Chapel in Naples. His fame has now spread far beyond Italy. This year, for example, George Frideric Handel is performing a pasticcio in London that he compiled from arias by Vinci.
• Johann Joseph Fux publishes his famous counterpoint textbook Gradus ad Parnassum . The work, written in Latin , was translated into German in 1742 by Lorenz Christoph Mizler , a student of Bach. It will have a major impact on the Viennese School and serve as a textbook on counterpoint well into the 20th century.
• Benjamin Schmolck publishes the New Year's song Jesus Nahme zum New Years .

Foundations

• March 17th : A public concert, the Concert spirituel , is held for the first time in Paris . The program of the first concert includes a concerto grosso by Arcangelo Corelli and two motets by Michel-Richard Delalande . The concerts take place in the concert hall ( Salle des Cent-Suisses ) of the Tuileries Palace, a hall 17 m wide, 19 m long and nine meters high, which can accommodate up to 100 musicians and 1,800 listeners. The Concert spirituel became a permanent institution until 1791 and groundbreaking for the taste of music in France in the 18th century. Before the Concerts spirituels came into being , it was difficult to organize public concerts in Paris because of a privilege held by the Royal Academy of Music ( Académie royale de musique ). The new concert series is brought to life by the composer and oboist Anne Danican Philidor (1681–1728, brother of François-André Danican Philidor ) of the royal chapel, who received permission from King Louis XV. and received from the academy under the following conditions: The concerts may only be held on days on which the opera is not playing due to Catholic holidays, around 30 days a year. There is also a substantial sum of money to be paid to the Royal Academy of Music.

Leonardo Vinci - La Rosmira fedele - Title page of the libretto - Venice 1725

World premieres

George Frideric Handel - L'Elpidia, ovvero Li rivali generosi - Title page of the libretto - London 1725

Georg Friedrich Handel - Tamerlan - Title page of the libretto - Hamburg 1725

Stage works

Opera

• January 20 : The world premiere of the opera Berenice by Giuseppe Maria Orlandini based on the libretto by Benedetto Pasqualigo after Jean Racine is premiered at the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo in Venice. Three arias from the opera are used in Georg Friedrich Handel's pasticcio L'Elpidia, ovvero Li rivali generosi .
• January 31 : The Dramma per musica in three acts La Rosmira fedele by Leonardo Vinci (music) with a libretto by Silvio Stampiglia is premiered at the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo in Venice.
• February 7 : The world premiere of the musical comedy in three acts with prologue and epilogue Bretislaus, or the victorious resistance of Reinhard Keizer takes place at the Theater am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg . The libretto is by Johann Philipp Praetorius . The Singspiel, which contains arias by Giuseppe Maria Orlandini , Giovanni Battista Bononcini and C. von Wich, will be performed on the occasion of the marriage of Duke Carl Friedrich of Schleswig-Holstein to Princess Anna Petrovna .
• February 13th : The Dramma per musica Rodelinda by Georg Friedrich Händel is premiered with great success by the Royal Academy of Music at the King's Theater on London's Haymarket. The libretto is by Nicola Francesco Haym, based on a play by Pierre Corneille adapted by Antonio Salvi .
• May 11 : The pasticcio L'Elpidia, ovvero Li rivali generosi by Leonardo Vinci and Giuseppe Maria Orlandini , arranged by Georg Friedrich Handel, based on a libretto by Apostolo Zeno, is premiered at the King's Theater in London. Senesino , Giuseppe Maria Boschi and Francesca Cuzzoni will sing at the world premiere of the Royal Academy of Music .
  

  Georg Friedrich Händel - Rodelinda - Overture piano reduction - John Walsh 1760

• June 20 : The joking Singspiel in five acts The Hamburg Fair or The Happy Fraud by Reinhard Keizer based on the libretto by Johann Philipp Praetorius is premiered.
• August 28 : The world premiere of the opera Semiramide in Ascalona by Antonio Caldara with the libretto by Apostolo Zeno takes place in Vienna .
• September 27th : The musical comedy Pimpinone or The Unequal Marriage by Georg Philipp Telemann is premiered at the same time as a German adaptation of Handel's Tamerlano at the Theater am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg. The libretto is by Johann Philipp Praetorius based on a model by Pietro Pariati. The work arouses enthusiasm in the audience and becomes Telemann's greatest stage success.
• October 22nd : First performance of the Singspiel in five acts with prologue Die Hamburger Schlacht-Zeit, or The unsuccessful betrayal by Reinhard Keizer on the libretto by Johann Philipp Praetorius at the Theater am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg. The opera is banned by the authorities after a single performance
• November 4th : The world premiere of the opera Il Venceslao by Antonio Caldara with the libretto by Apostolo Zeno takes place at the Hoftheater in Vienna.
• December 26 : Nicola Porpora's opera Siface with the libretto by Pietro Metastasio is premiered on the same evening at the Teatro Regio Ducale in Milan and at the Teatro San Giovanni Crisostomo in Venice.

• Jacques Aubert - La Reine des Péris (libretto by Fuzelier; world premiere in Paris )
• Benedetto Marcello
  • Le nozze di Giove e Giunone (Serenata; first performance in Vienna under the title Nasce per viver on the name day of Charles VI. )
  • Calisto in orsa (Pastorale, first performance probably 1725)
• Nicola Antonio Porpora
  • Siface (libretto by Pietro Metastasio; world premiere in Milan and Venice)
  • Didone abbandonata (libretto by Pietro Metastasio; world premiere in Reggio nell'Emilia )
• Antonio Vivaldi
  • L'inganno trionfante in amore (RV 721, composed no later than 1725)
  • Didone abbandonata (RV Anh. 118)
  • L'innocenza giustificata (RV app. 120)

Oratorio

• Johann Sebastian Bach - Easter Oratorio (BWV 249)
• Francesco Feo - Per i Defunti
• Johann Mattheson - The godly secret (libretto by Neumeister; world premiere in Hamburg)
• Georg Philipp Telemann - Jesus, your deep wounds (TWV 5:10)

Instrumental music

Orchestral music

• Willem de Fesch - Op. 5: Concerti and Concerti grossi ( Le Cène / Amsterdam 1725)
• Antonio Vivaldi
  • Op. 8: Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione , 12 violin concertos, including: The four seasons
  • various concerts, the exact time of which is not known

Chamber music

• Giuseppe Matteo Alberti - 12 Symphony a quattro op.2 ( Le Cène , Amsterdam 1725)
• Willem de Fesch - Op. 4: 6 sonata for violin and basso continuo (B. c.), 6 sonata for 2 violoncellos (1725; self-published in Amsterdam 1726)
• georg Friedrich Handel
  • Flute Sonata in G minor (HWV 360, composed 1725–26)
  • Flute Sonata in F major (HWV 369, composed 1725–26)

• Marin Marais - Pièces de viole , 5th book (1725; pieces for viol solo and bc)

Keyboard music

Harpsichord a. Ä.

• Johann Sebastian Bach - Second sheet music for Anna Magdalena Bach , 1725, therein a. a. Early versions of the Partitas III in A minor (BWV 827) and VI in E minor (BWV 830), the aria for the later Goldberg Variations (BWV 988), the French Suites No. 1 and 2 (BWV 812 & 813), and various individual pieces , Arias and chorales; also individual pieces by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , François Couperin a . a.

organ

• Johann Sebastian Bach - the exact time of origin of most of the organ works is not known.

Vocal music

Spiritually

• Johann Sebastian Bach - numerous cantatas:
  • Cantata How beautifully does the morning star shine (BWV 1)
  • Cantata Oh God, how many a heartache (BWV 3)
  • Cantata Stay with us, because evening will come (BWV 6)
  • Cantata Thank God! now the year is coming to an end (BWV 28)
  • Cantata Swing Up Joyfully (BWV 36c)
  • Cantata Jesu, now be praised (BWV 41)
  • Cantata In the evening of the same Sabbath (BWV 42)
  • Cantata Blessed is the man (BWV 57)
  • Cantata So God Loved the World (BWV 68)
  • Cantata Who loves me will keep my word (BWV 74)
  • Cantata God, the Lord, is Sun and Shield (BWV 79)
  • Cantata I am a good shepherd (BWV 85)
  • Cantata So far you haven't asked anything in my name (BWV 87)
  • Cantata I have in God's heart and mind (BWV 92)
  • Cantata You will cry and howl (BWV 103)
  • Cantata It's good for you that I'm going (BWV 108)
  • Cantata Our Mouths Be Full of Laughter (BWV 110)
  • Cantata What my God wants, that g'scheh always (BWV 111)
  • Cantata Dearest Immanuel, Duke of the Pious (BWV 123)
  • Cantata I will not leave my Jesus (BWV 124)
  • Cantata With Fried and Freud I'll go there (BWV 125)
  • Cantata Keep us, Lord, by your word (BWV 126)
  • Cantata Lord Jesus Christ, true 'man and God (BWV 127)
  • Cantata On Ascension Day Alone (BWV 128)
  • Cantata Praise the Lord, the mighty King of Honor (BWV 137)
  • Cantata Sweet Consolation, My Jesus Comes (BWV 151)
  • Cantata You Who Call Yourself From Christ (BWV 164)
  • Cantata do bill! Thunder Word (BWV 168)
  • Cantata He calls his sheep by name (BWV 175)
  • Cantata It is a defiant and despondent thing (BWV 176)
  • Cantata They will cast a spell over you (BWV 183)
  • Cantata Tear up, burst, smash the crypt (BWV 205)
  • Cantata Escape, vanish, escape, you worries (BWV 249a)
  • Cantata Blessed is Confidence (BWV Appendix 1)
  • Cantata Wünschet Jerusalem Glück (BWV Appendix 4)
  • Cantata His blessing therefore flows like a current (BWV Appendix 14)

• Benedetto Marcello - Estro poetico-armonico: parafrasi sopra li primi (e secondi) venticinque salmi (8 volumes, Venice 1724–26)
• Georg Philipp Telemann - Harmonious Divine Service , 72 church cantatas for voice, solo instrument and basso continuo (published 1725-26)
• Antonio Vivaldi: various motets a. a. (exact date of origin mostly unknown)

Worldly

• Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Cantata O eternal fire, o origin of love (BWV 34a, composed 1725/1726)
  • Aria Heaven tear, world rise (BWV 245a)
  • Aria Shatters Me (BWV 245b)
  • Aria Oh, don't wind up like that (BWV 245c)

Textbooks

• Johann Joseph Fux - Gradus ad Parnassum (textbook on the basics of counterpoint , German translation 1742 by Lorenz Christoph Mizler ).
• Johann Mattheson - Critica musica (Hamburg 1722–1725)

Instrument making

• Zacharias Hildebrandt completes the organ in the Evangelical Church in Liebertwolkwitz .
• Gottfried Silbermann completes the organ in the town church of St. Petri and Pauli in Reichenbach in Vogtland , which he had started in 1723.
• The violins Brancaccio , Chaconne , Wilhelmj and Tartini (approx. 1720 to 1725) as well as the cellos Chevillard , " Gallay, Vaslin, La Belle Blonde " and Baudiot are made in Antonio Stradivari's workshop .

Born

• March 25 : Gaetano Besozzi , Italian oboist and composer († 1795 )
• April 20 : Johann Friedrich Klöffler , German composer († 1790 )
• July 24th : John Newton , English author of sacred songs († 1807 )
• August 15 : Ferdinando Bertoni , Italian organist, conductor and composer († 1813 )
• 0November 8th : Johann George Tromlitz , German flautist, flute maker and composer († 1805 )
• December 25 : Esteban Salas y Castro , Cuban composer and church musician († 1803 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• Benedikt Kraus , Austrian composer († before 1813 )
• Antonio Lolli , Italian violinist and composer († 1802 )

Alessandro Scarlatti

Died

• 0February 6 : Johann Philipp Krieger , German composer, organist and Kapellmeister (* 1649 )
• September 14 : Ortensio Mauro , Italian writer and librettist (* 1634 )
• October 24th : Alessandro Scarlatti , Italian composer (* 1660 )
• December 13 : Ferdinand Fischer , Austrian lute player, composer, music archivist and clergyman (* 1652 )

Exact date of death unknown

• Mathieu Lanes , French composer, organist and harpsichordist (* 1660 )
• Christian Ludewig Meyer , German bell and gun founder (* before 1662 )
• Carl Rosier , Flemish composer and violinist (* 1640 )
• Silvio Stampiglia , Italian poet and librettist, imperial court poet (* 1664 )

See also

Portal: Music  - Overview of Wikipedia content on music

Web links

Commons : Music 1725  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Antonio Vivaldi - Works sorted by date of origin. In: Klassika.info. Retrieved December 10, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Johann Sebastian Bach - Works sorted by date of origin. In: Klassika.info. Retrieved December 10, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Georg Friedrich Händel - Works sorted by date of origin. In: Klassik.info. Retrieved December 10, 2018 .