Music year 1729
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Events
Johann Sebastian Bach
- Johann Sebastian Bach has been the Thomaskantor and musical director of the Thomaskirche in Leipzig since May 30, 1723 .
- In 1729 Bach took over the management of the Collegium musicum founded by Georg Philipp Telemann in 1701 , which he held until 1741, perhaps even until 1746. He had already worked as a guest conductor and probably also as a soloist with the Collegium. Through the additional management of the college, he considerably expands his scope in Leipzig's musical life. With this student ensemble he performs German and Italian instrumental and vocal music, including his own concerts written in Weimar and Köthen, which he later reworked into harpsichord concerts with up to four soloists. The concerts take place once or twice a week in the Zimmermannisches Caffee-Hauß (destroyed in the war in 1943) or in the associated garden. They are proof of the awakening civic desire for high-quality musical entertainment in Leipzig. Bach composed many of his secular cantatas for the ensemble now called Bachisches Collegium Musicum , in which his sons and students are also active.
- January 1st : Johann Sebastian Bach performs his church cantata God, like your name, so is your fame (BWV 171) for the first time. The text is by Christian Friedrich Henrici (also known as Picander ).
- Bach composes the homage cantata O pleasant melody (BWV 210a). The premiere will take place on January 12th on the occasion of Christian von Sachsen-Weißenfels' visit to Leipzig.
- January 23rd : First performance of the Bach cantata I stand with one foot in the grave (BWV 156).
- February 27 : World premiere of the Bach cantata Sehet! We go up to Jerusalem (BWV 159)
- For the memorial service for Prince Leopold von Anhalt-Köthen , held on March 24th in the St. Jakobskirche in Köthen , Bach composed the funeral cantata Klagt, Kinder, Klagen es der Welt (BWV 244a). The libretto is by Christian Friedrich Henrici . The so-called Köthen funeral music is now considered lost.
- April 19 : World premiere of the Bach cantata I live, my heart, to your delight (BWV 145).
- June 6th : The church cantata I love the highest with all my heart (BWV 174) by Johann Sebastian Bach is premiered on Whit Monday in Leipzig. For the introductory sinfonia , Bach adds five wind parts to the nine solo string parts of his 3rd Brandenburg Concerto . He can use so many players because he can fall back on the musicians of the Collegium musicum .
- September 29th : World premiere of the Bach cantata Man singing from victory with joy (BWV 149).
- Between October 20th and 24th : The Spirit Helps Our Weakness Up (BWV 226), a motet for two choirs by Bach, is premiered in the St. Pauli University Church in Leipzig on the occasion of the funeral of Professor Johann Heinrich Ernesti .
- The secular cantata Geschwinde, their whirling winds is created for the civic concert series of the Collegium musicum.
- When Georg Friedrich Handel stayed in Halle in 1729, Bach was ill and could not leave Leipzig. He therefore had his son Wilhelm Friedemann bring an invitation to Handel. A meeting between the two musicians fails just like in 1719. This time too, ultimately due to Handel's lack of interest.
georg Friedrich Handel
- George Frideric 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 .
- Handel, who was the musical director of the Royal Academy of Music in London until 1728 , starts a new company together with Johann Jacob Heidegger that is also referred to in literature as “the second opera academy”. They take over the resources of the Royal Academy of Music, rent the King's Theater for five years and Handel travels to Italy in February 1729 to recruit new singers. After the bad experiences with the extravagant concept of the first opera academy, the new ensemble is consistently more modest, including the old castrato Antonio Bernacchi as the new star, the soprano Anna Strada del Pó and Handel's old school friend from Halle, the bassist Johann Gottfried Riemschneider.
- On his return journey from Italy in early summer, Handel probably visits his mother in Halle and stops in Hanover (early June) and Hamburg.
- The new opera company opens on December 2nd with Handel's opera Lotario , but has only moderate success, so Senesino will be hired again as a train number for the next season .
Domenico Scarlatti
- Domenico Scarlatti follows his highly gifted harpsichord student Princess Maria Barbara de Bragança when she married the Spanish heir to the throne Don Fernando of Asturias (from 1746 King Ferdinand VI ). You first go to Andalusia , where the court initially travels back and forth between Seville , the Sierras, Granada , Cádiz and other port cities. The princess' harpsichords are transported on the back of mules .
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.
- November 29 : The opera Flavius Bertaridus, King of the Longobards (TWV 21:27) by Georg Philipp Telemann based on the libretto by Christoph Gottlieb Wend and Georg Philipp Telemann has its world premiere at the Hamburg Opera on Gänsemarkt . The opera is based on the Venetian opera Flavio Bertarido, Ré de Longobardi by Stefano Ghisi.
- At the request of Johann Gottfried Walther , Telemann wrote his third autobiography. As early as 1718 and 1740 he had written his first and second autobiography at the request of the music scholar Johann Mattheson .
- Georg Philipp Telemann receives an offer to build a court chapel from the court of the Russian tsar in Saint Petersburg .
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.
- A total of 12 sonatas and concert collections were published by 1729, all of which were printed by Estienne Roger in Amsterdam from op. 3 onwards. Vivaldi's 6 Violin and Oboe Concertos, Op. 11 and his Violin Concertos, Op. 12 are published in 1729.
Other biographical events
- Jacques Aubert made numerous appearances at the Concert Spirituel in Paris for ten years from 1729 . In addition to compositions by his teacher Jean-Baptiste Senaillé , he likes to perform works by Arcangelo Corelli and Antonio Vivaldi in these concerts .
- Antonio Bernacchi was engaged for the third time in London in 1729 at the King's Theater , where he sang in premieres and revivals of Handel's stage works. He had sung here as early as 1716 and 1717.
- With the help of Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Gotthelf Gerlach becomes organist and music director (as successor to Georg Balthasar Schott) at the Leipzig New Church ; his substitute is Johann Gottlieb Wiedner. From 1729 onwards, Gerlach is likely to receive considerable support from the Leipzig City Council. His church music work was considered quite modern for the time.
- Pietro Locatelli moves to Amsterdam, where he settles down and works until the end of his life. He does not compose much, gives violin lessons to amateurs and edits operas 1 to 9 and works by other musicians.
- Antonia Maria Merighi moves to London, where she will appear in numerous Handel operas for two seasons, partly in roles specially tailored to her (e.g. Matilda from Lotario , Rosmira from Partenope and Erissena from Poro ), partly in soprano roles from earlier operas which are adapted to their voice and its ambitus .
- In September 1729 Pietro Metastasio received the offer to become court poet ( poeta Cesareo ) at the Viennese imperial court of Charles VI. to succeed Apostolo Zeno , which he accepted without hesitation. It includes a grant of 3000 guilders .
- Anna Maria Strada is engaged by Georg Friedrich Handel for his 2nd Opera Academy . There she sings Adelaide in Handel's opera Lotario for the first time and is from then on Handel's prima donna in all of his opera series and oratorios until 1737.
- Gerhard Tersteegen publishes the spiritual song God is present from the Reformed tradition in his spiritual flower garden of intimate souls .
Openings
- December 2 : Georg Friedrich Handel's “second opera academy” opens with Lotario at the King's Theater in London .
Foundations
- The French poet and chansonier Pierre Gallet (1698–1757) founded the first choral society Goguette in Paris with the “Société du Caveau” .
World premieres
Stage works
Opera
- January 7 : The world premiere of the opera Love in a Riddle of Henry Carey takes place in London.
- February 6 : The opera libretto Semiramide riconosciuta by Pietro Metastasio is performed for the first time in the setting by Leonardo Vinci at the Teatro delle Dame in Rome. Gaetano Berenstadt gives the Ircano.
- February 12 : The second version of Pietro Metastasio's opera libretto Semiramide riconosciuta is premiered in Venice in the setting by Nicola Antonio Porpora .
- February 8th : The world premiere of the opera I disingannati ( Die Witzigen ) by Antonio Caldara at the Teatrino di corte takes place at the Teatrino di corte in Vienna. The libretto is by Giovanni Claudio Pasquini and is based on Molière's comedy Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire amoureux .
- Spring: The opera libretto Lucio Papirio dittatore , Dramma per musica in three acts by Apostolo Zeno and Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni is premiered in the setting by Geminiano Giacomelli in Parma at the Teatro Ducale on the occasion of a visit by the Duke of Modena Rinaldo d'Este .
- June 20 : The world premiere of Henry Carey's opera The Contrivances takes place in London.
- Autumn: The Dramma per musica in three acts Astianatte (first act by Geminiano Giacomelli, further acts by Luca Antonio Predieri based on a libretto by Antonio Salvi ) is premiered in Alessandria at the Teatro Solerio.
- November 25 : The libretto La contesa de 'numi by Pietro Metastasio is premiered on the birth of the Dauphin Louis Ferdinand in the courtyard of the Palazzo Altemps in Rome in the setting by Leonardo Vinci .
- November 29th : The opera Flavius Bertaridus, King of the Longobards (TWV 21:27) by Georg Philipp Telemann based on the libretto by Christoph Gottlieb Wend and Georg Philipp Telemann has its world premiere at the Hamburg Opera on Gänsemarkt . The opera is based on the Venetian opera Flavio Bertarido, Ré de Longobardi by Stefano Ghisi.
- December 2 : The opera Lotario by Georg Friedrich Händel has its world premiere at the King's Theater on the Haymarket in London with little success . The libretto is by G. Rossi, based on Adelaide by Antonio Salvi .
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Tomaso Albinoni
- La fortezza al cimento
- Il concilio de 'pianeti
- Antonio Caldara - Serenata Il natale di Minerva (Libretto by Giovanni Claudio Pasquini )
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Giovanni Battista Costanzi
- Carlo Magno
- Rasmene (libretto by Giuseppe Polivni, world premiere in Rome)
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Francesco Feo
- Tamese ( Arsilda regina del Ponto ) (Dramma per musica, libretto by Domenico Lalli, first performance in Naples in the winter of 1729)
- Il vedovo (Intermezzo; first performance in Naples in the winter of 1729)
- Giuseppe Maria Buini - Endimione
- Benedetto Marcello - La morte d'Adone ( Serenata , first performance in Venice 1710 or 1729)
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Johann Adolpf Hasse
- Ulderica (libretto by Pietro Pariati , world premiere in Naples)
- La serva scaltra (world premiere on November 4th in Naples at Dramma per musica Il Tigrane )
Oratorio
- Georg Philipp Telemann - To lift our guilty sins (TWV 5:14)
Instrumental music
- Joseph Bodin de Boismortier - Concerto for Cello, Violin and Bassoon
- Jean-Joseph Mouret - Symphony de Fanfare
- Antonio Vivaldi - 6 Violin and Oboe Concertos, op.11 (published 1729)
Keyboard music
harpsichord
- Johann Sebastian Bach - Partita No. 4, BWV 828 (single publication 1729)
Vocal music
Spiritually
- Johann Sebastian Bach - Cantatas
- God, you are praised in silence (BWV 120)
- Lord God, ruler of all things (BWV 120a, composed 1729?)
- I live, my heart, to your delight (BWV 145)
- We sing with joy of victory (BWV 149)
- I stand with one foot in the grave (BWV 156)
- See! We go up to Jerusalem (BWV 159)
- God, like your name, so is your fame (BWV 171)
- I love the Most High with all my mind (BWV 174)
- Complain, children, complain to the whole world (BWV 244a)
- Cantata draft (BWV Appendix 2)
- Motet The spirit helps our weaknesses (BWV 226)
- Motet The spirit helps our weaknesses (BWV 226a, composed 1729?)
- Choral What God does is done well (BWV 250, composed around 1729)
- Chorale Now all thank God (BWV 252)
- Michel-Richard Delalande - Motets de feu de la Lande
- Antonio Vivaldi - Motets a. a. (cannot be precisely dated)
Worldly
- Johann Sebastian Bach - secular cantatas
- Speed, you whirling winds (BWV 201)
- O pleasant melody (BWV 210a)
- Antonio Caldara - Vicino a un rivoletto
Other
- Georg Philipp Telemann - The faithful music master (continuation from 1728, Hamburg)
Instrument making
- The violins Benny and Solomon ex Lambert are made in Antonio Stradivari's workshop .
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Gottfried Silbermann
- completes the construction of the organ in the village church in Püchau
- begins with the construction of the organ in the village church in Reinhardtsgrimma .
Born
- May 3 : Florian Leopold Gassmann , Austrian composer († 1774 )
- October 1 : Anton Cajetan Adlgasser , German composer and organist († 1777 )
- October 16 : Pieter van Maldere , Belgian composer and violinist († 1768 )
- October 17 : Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny , French opera composer († 1817 )
- December 1 : Giuseppe Sarti , Italian composer († 1802 )
- December 3 (baptized): Antonio Soler , Spanish composer († 1783 )
- December 20 : František Xaver Pokorný , Bohemian violinist and composer († 1794 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Johann Adam Aulhorn , German actor, singer and dancer († 1808 )
Died
- February 6 : Pietro Marchitelli , Neapolitan violinist and composer (* 1643 )
- March 12th : Johann Josef Brammertz , German organ builder (* 1668 )
- April 11 : Manuel de Egüés , Spanish composer (* 1657 )
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June 13th : Johann Friedrich Wender , German organ builder (* 1655 )
- June 27 : Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre , French composer and harpsichordist (* 1665 )
- July 16 : Johann David Heinichen , German composer and music theorist (* 1683 )
- July 31 : Nicola Francesco Haym , Italian cellist, composer, librettist, theater manager and author (* 1678 )
- August: Attilio Ariosti , Italian composer (* 1666 )
- November 22nd : Pieter Bustijn , Dutch composer and organist (baptized 1649 )
- December 1 : Christian Ludwig Boxberg , German composer and organist (* 1670 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Nayî Osman Dede , Turkish calligrapher, scholar, poet and composer (* around 1652 )
- Otto Diedrich Richborn , German organ builder (* 1674 )
- Franz Caspar Schnitger , German organ builder (* 1693 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1729 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1729 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Philipp Telemann - Works sorted by date of origin. Retrieved August 7, 2019 .