Music year 1728
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Overview of the music years
Further events
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Beginning of Elisa's aria in Handel's autograph of Tolomeo
George Frideric Handel - Siroe - Title page of the libretto - London 1728
George Frideric Handel - Tolomeo - Title page of the libretto - London 1728
Tomaso Albinoni - L'impresario delle Canarie - Title page of the libretto - Milan 1728
Leonardo Vinci - Catone in Utica - Title Page of the Libretto - Rome 1728
The printed libretto of Beggar's Opera with music (published by John Watts, 3rd edition 1728)
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 in 1723, Bach was allowed to use the title of Princely Koethen Kapellmeister . Until the death of Prince Leopold von Anhalt-Köthen on November 19, 1728, it provided music for the festive days of the Princely House.
- October 17th : Bach's church cantata I have my confidence (BWV 188) is premiered on the 21st Sunday after Trinity . The text for movements 2 to 5 of the cantata was written by Christian Friedrich Henrici (also known as Picander ).
- December 25 : World premiere of the Bach cantata Ehre sein Gott in der Höhe (BWV 197a)
- As a homage to Leipzig, Bach composed the cantata Elected Pleißenstadt (BWV 216a).
- Johann Sebastian Bach becomes a father for the thirteenth time. The sixth child together with his second wife Anna Magdalena Bach , Regina Johanna (1728–1733), is born. Their son Christian Gottlieb (1725–1728) dies.
- In 1728, at the age of 51, Bach's last surviving sister, Maria Salome, died.
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 .
- Handel 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 17th : The opera Siroe, re di Persia by Georg Friedrich Händel based on a libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym based on a template by Pietro Metastasio is premiered at the King's Theater am Haymarket in London.
- April 30th : The opera Tolomeo by Georg Friedrich Handel based on the libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym based on a model by Carlo Sigismondo Capece is premiered at the King's Theater am Haymarket in London. The title role is sung by the mezzo-soprano Senesino , other roles are sung by Francesca Cuzzoni , Faustina Bordoni and Giuseppe Maria Boschi .
- When the Royal Academy of Music in London went bankrupt, George Frideric Handel lost his position as the company's musical director. After a break from a theater season, he will found the New Academy or Second Academy together with Johann Jacob Heidegger and play at the King's Theater until 1734.
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.
- Scarlatti is making his third trip to Italy. In Rome he met 16-year-old Maria Caterina Gentili. The couple are getting married and will have five children together.
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.
- May 26th : The world premiere of the opera Miriways by Georg Philipp Telemann based on the libretto by Johann Samuel Müller takes place at the Hamburg Opera on Gänsemarkt.
- 1728 founded Telemann along with Johann Valentin Görner with Faithful Music Master , the first German music magazine, which also includes contributions of different composition musician. The music magazine is intended to promote music making at home and appears every two weeks. In addition to Telemann and Görner, eleven other contemporary musicians, including Keizer , Bonporti and Zelenka , will contribute to the magazine with their compositions.
Antonio Vivaldi
- Antonio Vivaldi has been the musical director of the Teatro Sant'Angelo in his hometown of Venice since 1726 . 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.
- December 29th : Antonio Vivaldi's opera seria in three acts L'Atenaide based on the libretto by Apostolo Zeno is premiered during the carnival season of 1729 at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence.
Other biographical events
- Bartolomeo Cordans begins composing operas for Venetian opera houses, including the Ormisda opera . The score of this opera has been lost, while the libretto has been preserved.
- Francesca Cuzzoni leaves England after the bankruptcy of the Royal Academy of Music and first goes to the Imperial Court in Vienna , where she sings "to the greatest satisfaction of your Imperial Majesties" and is offered a job.
- John Gay and Johann Christoph Pepusch will perform the ballad opera The Beggar's Opera for the first time on January 29th at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theater in London. Gay and Pepusch meet the taste of the public, which is increasingly leaning towards lighter and politically satirical English-language musical performances. The opera was a great success and was performed 62 times in a row. The highlight of the beggar opera is a parody of Georg Friedrich Handel's popular “Crusader March” from his opera Rinaldo - sung by “beggars”, “thieves” and “crooks”.
- Johann Mattheson , who has been vicar since 1715 and music director at Hamburg Cathedral since 1718 , has to give up this position in 1728 after a serious dispute with the singers of his oratorios, who have since boycotted him. In addition, his hearing deteriorates significantly, his hearing loss becomes more and more severe, until he becomes completely deaf. Mattheson begins to compose music theory and publishes the German music magazine Der musicalische Patriot (1728/29).
- Johann Georg Pisendel , who has been the first violinist of the Dresden court orchestra since January 1712 , becomes its concertmaster. In that year he also began studying composition with Johann David Heinichen .
- Johann Joachim Quantz became a flautist with the Electoral Saxon and Royal Polish Chapel in Dresden and met the then Prussian Crown Prince Friedrich in Berlin , whom he gave flute lessons from then on, which his father, King Friedrich Wilhelm I , immediately forbade.
- Giuseppe Tartini opens a music school in Padua that will attract musicians from all over Europe, including Gaetano Pugnani , Pasquale Bini , Johann Gottlieb Graun , Joseph Touchemoulin , Maddalena Sirmen , Pieter Hellendaal , André-Noël Pagin and Carminato.
- Leonardo Vinci joins the Rosary Brotherhood of the Church of Santa Caterina a Formiello in Naples in February and shortly thereafter becomes Kapellmeister at the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo . After a few months he passed this position on to Francesco Durante so that he could devote himself more to composing operas. He made friends with the poet Pietro Metastasio , some of whose libretti he was the first to set to music. Among them Catone in Utica , which premiered in Rome in 1728.
Openings / closings
- The Royal Academy of Music in London is bankrupt and is disintegrating. Georg Friedrich Händel loses his post as musical director, Johann Jacob Heidegger the post as administrative director and Nicola Francesco Haym the post as secretary of the company. The previous train numbers of the Academy, Senesino and Francesca Cuzzoni, leave England. Last but not least, John Gay and Johann Christoph Pepusch contributed to this with their The Beggar's Opera.
World premieres
Stage works
Opera
- January 2 : The libretto for the oratorio Per la festività del Santo Natale by Pietro Metastasio, composed at the request of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni , is premiered in the first setting by Giovanni Battista Costanzi in the Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome.
- January 29th : The world premiere of the ballad opera The Beggar's Opera by John Gay (text) and Johann Christoph Pepusch (music) takes place at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theater in London.
- February 17th : The opera Siroe, re di Persia by Georg Friedrich Händel based on a libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym based on a template by Pietro Metastasio is premiered at the King's Theater am Haymarket in London. Giuseppe Maria Boschi sings one of the roles in the opera .
- April 30th : The opera Tolomeo by Georg Friedrich Handel based on the libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym based on a model by Carlo Sigismondo Capece is premiered at the King's Theater am Haymarket in London. The title role is sung by the mezzo-soprano Senesino, other roles are sung by Francesca Cuzzoni, Faustina Bordoni and Giuseppe Maria Boschi.
- May 26th : The world premiere of the opera Miriways by Georg Philipp Telemann based on the libretto by Johann Samuel Müller takes place at the Hamburg Opera on Gänsemarkt.
- September 24 : The world premiere of Henry Carey 's opera The Quaker's Opera takes place in London.
- December 29th : Antonio Vivaldi's opera seria in three acts L'Atenaide based on the libretto by Apostolo Zeno is premiered at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence during the 1729 Carnival season.
- Tomaso Albinoni - L'impresario delle Canarie
- Giovanni Battista Costanzi - Carlo Magno (libretto by Pietro Ottoboni , world premiere in Rome)
- Bartolomeo Cordans - Ormisda
- Leonardo Leo - La pastorella commattuta
- Georg Philipp Telemann - Emma and Eginhard
- Leonardo Vinci
- Antonio Vivaldi - Rosilena ed Oronta (1728 at the latest)
Oratorio
- Georg Philipp Telemann
- Rejoice, you elderly people, God has preserved this city (TWV 24: 3a)
- Israel, ah, beloved Father-Heart! (TWV 5:13)
Instrumental music
Concerts
- Antonio Vivaldi - 6 Concerti for flute, strings and bc, op.10 (published c. 1728 by Michel-Charles Le Cène , Amsterdam)
- Flute Concerto No. 1 in F major, RV 433 La tempesta di mare
- Flute Concerto No. 2 in G minor, RV 439 La notte
- Flute Concerto No. 3 in D major, RV 428 Il gardellino
- Flute Concerto No. 4 in G major, RV 435
- Flute Concerto No. 5 in F major, RV 434
- Flute Concerto No. 6 in G major, RV 437
Chamber music
- Johann Georg Pisendel - Gigue in A minor (printed in Telemann's "Der getreue Music-Meister", Hamburg, 1728/1799)
- Georg Philipp Telemann - Intrada, together with burlesque suite ("Gulliver Suite") for two violins (unfinished)
- Antonio Vivaldi - Sonata in C major (RV 801, composed approx. 1728)
Viol music
- François Couperin - Pièces de violes (Paris, 1728), 2 suites for viola da gamba and bc
Keyboard music
harpsichord
- Johann Sebastian Bach - Partita No. 3 in A minor, BWV 827 (single publication 1728)
- Jean-François Dandrieu - Second livre de Pièces de clavecin
Various keyboard instruments
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Vincent Lübeck - Clavier exercise consisting of Praeludio, Fuga, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande and Gigue as well as an encore from the song Praise God you Christians all at once in a Chaconne (Hamburg, 1728)
- Præludium et Fuga ex A, LübWV 16/1 & 2 (harpsichord, spinet, clavichord)
- Suite ex Gb, LübWV 17 (harpsichord, spinet, clavichord)
- Chaconne. Praise God you Christians all at once ex F, LübWV 18 (organ or harpsichord)
Vocal music
Spiritually
- Johann Sebastian Bach - Cantatas
- Praise and honor the highest good (BWV 117)
- God, you are praised in silence (BWV 120, composed 1728?)
- We have to go through much tribulation (BWV 146)
- I have my confidence (BWV 188)
- Glory to God on high (BWV 197a, composed around 1728)
- Johann David Heinichen
- Missa in D major
- Magnificat in B flat major
- Te Deum in D major
- Come? S'imbruna il ciel
Worldly
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Cantata Amused Pleißen-Stadt (BWV 216)
- Cantata Chosen Pleißenstadt (BWV 216a)
- Antonio Vivaldi - Cantata Sorge vermiglia in ciel (RV 667, composed approx. 1727-28)
Textbooks
- Johann David Heinichen - The general bass in the composition, Or: New and thorough instructions Like a music lover with special advantage, through the principles of the composition, not only the general bass in the church, Cammer and theatrical style, & learn in altiori gradu; but also at the same time in the composition itself, making important profectus. In addition to an introduction or musical reasoning about music in general, and many special subjects of today's praxeos . Self-published, Dresden 1728.
Born
- January 16 : Niccolò Piccinni , Italian composer († 1800 )
- January 17 : Johann Gottfried Müthel , German harpsichordist, organist and composer († 1788 )
- February 16 : Gaetano Guadagni , Italian opera singer (former castrato) and composer († 1792 )
- February 24 : Franz Josef Aumann , Austrian composer († 1797 )
- April 2 : Franz Aspelmayr , Austrian composer († 1786 )
- May 11 : Pierre Gaviniès , French violinist and composer († 1800 )
- August 1st : Johann Ignaz Seuffert , German organ builder († 1807 )
- August 15 : Georg Daniel Auberlen , musician and composer from Württemberg († 1784 )
- November 28 : Ernst Julius Marx , German organ builder († 1799 )
- December 9 : Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi , Italian composer († 1804 )
- December 17 : Johann Julius Hummel , German music publisher († 1798 )
- December 21 : Hermann Friedrich Raupach , German composer († 1778 )
- December 25 : Johann Adam Hiller , German composer, music writer and conductor († 1804 )
Died
- January 24th : Johann Philipp Käfer , German Baroque composer, organist and Kapellmeister (* 1672 )
- January 27 : François Duval , French violinist and composer (* 1672 )
- February 12 : Agostino Steffani , Italian composer, diplomat and Catholic auxiliary bishop (* 1654 )
- March 12 : Carlo Sigismondo Capece , Italian librettist and playwright (* 1652 )
- April 7 : Johann Andreas Grammlich , Protestant edification writer and song poet (* 1689 )
- April 13 : Johann Christoph Schmidt , German composer (* 1664 )
- April 23 : Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco , Peruvian composer (* 1644 )
- May 2nd : Johann Georg Keifflin , Alsatian Protestant theologian and composer (* 1672 )
- August 15 : Marin Marais , French viol player and composer (* 1656 )
- August 31 : Jean-François Lalouette , French composer and church musician (* 1651 )
- October 7th : Jean-Baptiste Volumier , Flemish violin virtuoso and composer (* around 1670 )
- October 8 : Anne Danican Philidor , French composer and court musician (* 1681 )
- November 6th : Johann Jakob Kress , German composer, violinist and concert master (* around 1685 )
- November 16 : Johann Christoph Windisch , German school teacher and organist, sculptor and carpenter (* 1654 )
- November 19 : Leopold , Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, sponsor and friend of Johann Sebastian Bach (* 1694 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Gaetano Greco , Italian music teacher and composer (* around 1657 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1728 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1728 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Antonio Vivaldi - Works sorted by date of origin. In: Klassika.info. Retrieved December 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Johann Sebastian Bach - works sorted by time of origin. In: Klassika.info. Retrieved December 10, 2018 .