Music year 1726

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Music year 1726
Bartolomeo Cristofori
Bartolomeo Cristofori completed the construction of the hammer piano in 1726
George Frideric Handel - Alessandro - Title page of the libretto - London 1726
George Frideric Handel - Publio Cornelio Scipione - Title page of the libretto - London 1726
Giuseppe Porsile - Spartaco - title page of the libretto - Vienna 1726
Reinhard Keizer - The ridiculous prince Jodelet - title page of the libretto

Events

Johann Sebastian Bach

georg Friedrich Handel

  • May 5th : The opera seria Alessandro by Georg Friedrich Händel based on another libretto by Paolo Antonio Rolli is premiered at the King's Theater in London's Haymarket. The literary template La superbia d'Alessandro comes from Ortensio Mauro . The premiere will be the first meeting of the two most famous singers of the time: Francesca Cuzzoni (soprano) and Faustina Bordoni (mezzo-soprano), who form a “triumvirate” with Senesino, a castrato mezzo-soprano . The opera is so successful that the usual number of two performances a week is not enough. As early as November, the opera was performed twice under the title Der haughty Alexander at the Hamburg Opera on Gänsemarkt.
  • George Frideric Handel becomes a British citizen .

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.

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, for an annual salary of 300 thalers, he also took over the management of the Hamburg Opera on Gänsemarkt , rebuilt 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.

Antonio Vivaldi

  • Antonio Vivaldi , who had worked in Mantua since 1718 , where he mainly worked as artistic director and opera composer in the service of Prince Philipp von Hessen-Darmstadt , returned to his hometown of Venice in 1726 as musical director of the Teatro Sant'Angelo . There, both as a composer and as a violin virtuoso, he became a living legend and a “pilgrimage destination” for many musicians from all over Europe.
  • The operas Cunegonda (RV 707), Dorilla in Tempe (RV 709) and La fede tradita e vendicata (RV 712) were written by 1726 at the latest .
  • Around 1726 Vivaldi met the then 16-year-old Anna Girò (originally Giraud), a singer of French origin, who from then on accompanied him on his travels.

Other biographical events

  • Farinelli sings in Milan in 1726 .
  • Johann Adolph Hasse made his successful debut with Sesostrate on May 13, 1726 at the renowned Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples, and with his subsequent operas he was among the most popular opera composers in Italy.
  • Giuseppe Porsile composed in honor of the French King Louis XV. on the occasion of his birthday on February 15, the cantata Il giorno natalizio di Giove, which will be performed in the residence of the French ambassador, the Duke of Richelieu . Porsile's best-known work, the opera Spartaco, will be premiered on February 21st at the Kleiner Hoftheater in Vienna. The then court poet Apostolo Zeno notes in his Lettere (IV, 98) that their success goes back to both the beauty of the music and the singing of Faustina Bordoni , who appears in it for the first time in Vienna. He lets the vocal abilities of Faustina and the three other internationally famous singers come into their own through the pitch range used, dramatic melodic jumps and long melodic phrases. In the mad scene of Spartacus in the third act he dispenses with the traditional da capo form.
  • On February 25, at the age of forty-two , Jean-Philippe Rameau married nineteen-year-old Marie-Louise Mangot from a family of musicians.
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau, who had published his theoretical work Traité de l'harmonie réduite à ses principes naturels in 1722 , published Nouveau Système de musique theorique in 1726. With these books he founded modern music theory for chord and harmony theory and acquired a reputation as a music theorist.

Foundations

  • The Academy of Ancient Music is founded in London .

World premieres

Stage works

Opera
Oratorio

Instrumental music

orchestra

  • Francesco Geminiani - Concerti grossi based on Arcangelo Corelli's Violin Sonatas op.5 (London 1726/27)
  • Antonio Vivaldi - Concerts which cannot be precisely dated.

Chamber music

  • François Couperin - "Les Nations", Sonades et suites de simphonies en trio (Paris, 1726). 4 trio sonatas or suites for any instrumentation ( La françoise , L'espagnole , L'impériale and La piémontaise )
  • Willem de Fesch - 6 sonatas for violin and basso continuo and 6 sonatas for 2 violoncellos (1725, self-published in Amsterdam 1726)
  • georg Friedrich Handel
    • Sonata a Flauto e Harpsichord in G minor, HWV 360 (composed 1725–26)
    • Sonata a Flauto e Harpsichord in F major, HWV 369 (composed 1725–26)

Keyboard music

harpsichord

  • Johann Sebastian Bach - Partita No. 1 in B flat major, BWV 825 (single publication 1726)
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau - Livres de pièces de clavecin , 3rd volume (1726/27). Two more books appeared in 1706 and 1724.

organ

  • Johann Sebastian Bach - Trio based on a trio sonata by Johann Friedrich Fasch (BWV 585, composed 1726/27?)

Vocal music

Spiritually

  • 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)

Worldly

Popular music

Textbooks

  • Gregori Ferdinand Wenger, Mandora from 1726
    Jean-Philippe Rameau - Nouveau système de musique théorique , Paris 1726

Instrument making

  • Pianoforte by Cristofori, Metropolitan Museum of Art
    Bartolomeo Cristofori completes the fortepiano . The basis for the playability of the hammer piano is a sophisticated mechanism in which a hammer is thrown against the     string by a jack and immediately releases it to swing freely. When the button is pressed, a damper is raised which, when the button is released, intercepts the vibrating string. Cristofori stretches two equally tuned strings (a so-called chorus) next to each other to enable a higher volume. What is particularly new is that the volume can be infinitely varied from soft (Italian: piano ) to loud (Italian: forte ) by applying force; Accordingly, the instrument is christened pianoforte , from which the short form piano is derived. Today there are still three originals of the instrument: one is in Leipzig , one in Rome and one in New York . A total of ten instruments of various types (including spinets and harpsichords) from Cristofori's workshop have been preserved.
  • Zacharias Hildebrandt completed the construction of the Lengefeld organ in 1726 . Because of this, there is a dispute with Gottfried Silbermann , who regards Hildebrandt as a competitor and is suing the court. The dispute is settled by an agreement in which Hildebrandt undertakes to only accept orders previously rejected by Silbermann. He then relocated his area of ​​activity to the Leipzig area and western Electoral Saxony .
  • The cellos Marquis de Cerberon ex Loeb and Comte de Saveuse are made in Antonio Stradivari's workshop .
  • Andreas Silbermann completes the construction of the organ in the Dominican church in Colmar .

Born

Francesco Antonio Pistocchi
Michel-Richard Delalande

Died

Exact date of death unknown

See also

Portal: Music  - Overview of Wikipedia content on music

Web links

Commons : Music 1726  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1726  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Antonio Vivaldi - Works sorted by date of origin. In: Klassika.info. Retrieved December 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Didone abbandonata (Leonardo Vinci) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna , accessed on October 25, 2014.
  3. ↑ List of the stage works by Leonardo Vinci based on the MGG at Operone, accessed on September 29, 2014.
  4. ↑ Didone abbandonata (Leonardo Vinci) at operabaroque.fr , accessed on February 1, 2015.
  5. ↑ Title of the manuscript on IMSLP (accessed September 30, 2019)
  6. ↑ Title of the manuscript on IMSLP (accessed September 30, 2019)
  7. ↑ Georg Friedrich Händel - Works sorted by date of origin. In: Klassik.info. Retrieved December 10, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Johann Sebastian Bach - works sorted by time of origin. In: Klassika.info. Retrieved December 10, 2018 .