Music year 1731

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Music year 1731
The Pasticcio Venceslao by Georg Friedrich Händel, which premiered on January 12th, failed the audience.	Georg Friedrich Handel's opera Poro, which premiered on February 2, is finally a success again. The opera is performed a total of sixteen times.

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 he also took over the management of the Collegium musicum founded by Georg Philipp Telemann in 1701 . 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 that he wrote in Weimar and Köthen, which he will later transform 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.
• Johann Sebastian Bach becomes a father for the fifteenth time. The eighth child together with his second wife Anna Magdalena Bach , Christiana Dorothea (1731–1732), is born.
• March 23rd : The St. Mark Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach is premiered on Good Friday in Leipzig in the St. Thomas Church. The work based on Picander's libretto is now considered lost.
• April 8th : The church cantata The Lord is My Faithful Shepherd (BWV 112) has its world premiere in the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig .
• August 25 : First performance of the cantata So fight now, you lively tones (BWV Appendix 10) on the occasion of the 66th birthday of Leipzig's governor Joachim Friedrich von Flemming .
• August 27 : On the occasion of the council election, the first performance of the sacred cantata We thank you, God, we thank you (BWV 29).
• November 25 : The Choralkantate Awake, calls us the voice (BWV 149) by Johann Sebastian Bach, based on the known gleichna -shaped choir a liter of Ph ilipp Nico l ai from the year 1599 , will be premiered.
• December 2nd : The church cantata Schwingtig dich upwards (BWV 36) has its premiere on the 1st of Advent.
• Johann Sebastian Bach publishes the 6 harpsichord partitas BWV 825-830, previously published individually, under the title: Clavir-Exercise / consisting in / Præludien, Allemanden, Couranten, Sarabanden, Giguen, / Minuets, and other gallanteries; / Made for those lovers to enjoy their minds ... / OPUS 1 (also known as piano exercise, part I ).

georg Friedrich Handel

• Georg Friedrich Handel , who founded the “second opera academy” together with Johann Jacob Heidegger in 1729 , is the musical director of this successor organization to the Royal Academy of Music .
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  First page of the final coro from Handel's opera Poro, autograph
  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 .
• January 12th : The Pasticcio Venceslao by George Frideric Handel after Apostolo Zeno has its world premiere at the King's Theater on the Haymarket in London. However, it fails and only sees four performances.

• February 2 : The opera Poro by Georg Friedrich hands l to Libret to Alessandro nell'In the by Pietro Metasta sio will be premiered in London at King's Theater in the Haymarket. The castrato Senesino sings the title role . The Urauffü currency is a success, the following still 15 more performances.
• For the changed conditions of the second opera academy, Georg Friedrich Händel created a heavily revised new version of the opera Rinaldo (HWV 7b). In addition to several changes of voice and the deletion of an entire part (Eustazio), the work is also changed dramaturgically. The text book is revised again by Giacomo Rossi and provided with many additions. Handel also adds a number of chants, some of which are borrowed from the operas Lotario , Partenope and Admeto , but some of which are also newly composed. The spectacular machine effects, already heavily criticized in the first version by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in their magazine " The Spectator " of March 6, 1711, are deleted and the solution to the conclusion is made more believable. The second version first appeared on April 6, 1731 at the King's Theater and has six performances.

• Georg Friedrich Händel stops working on the opera Titus l'empéreur in the first act for reasons unknown.

Domenico Scarlatti

The Patio de las Doncellas in the Reales Alcázares , Seville

• Domenico Scarlatti has lived in Spain since 1729, where he followed his pupil, the Portuguese Princess Maria Bárbara de Bragança , when she married the Spanish heir to the throne Don Fernando of Asturias (from 1746 King Ferdinand VI ). Since October 1730 (until May 16, 1733) the Alcázares Reales in Seville have been the permanent residence of the heir apparent and Scarlatti's place of work.

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, Telemann has taken over the management of the Hamburg Opera at 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 Margraves 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 published cantata collections in 1725/1726 with chamber music instrumentation, such as Der harmonische Gottesdienst . A continuation of this work appears in 1731/1732.

Antonio Vivaldi

• Antonio Vivaldi has been 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.

Other biographical events

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach begins studying law at the University of Leipzig and begins composing.
• Jean-Baptiste Barrière was a member of the orchestra of the Royal Opera in Paris from 1731 for a salary of 450 livres .
• Francesco Corradini worked as an opera composer for various houses in Madrid from 1731 .
• Farinelli , who had performed in almost all of Italy's major cities with increasing success, returned to Vienna for a third time in 1731. On a critical but well-intentioned advice, which he took on this occasion from Charles VI. Farinelli changes his style from the sheer bravura of the Porpora school to more pathos and simplicity. In this he is encouraged, among other things, by his friend Pietro Metastasio , who is now the imperial court poet in Vienna.
• Willem de Fesch , who had been Kapellmeister at the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp since 1725 , settled in London .
• Johann Adolf Hasse and Faustina Bordoni , who married on July 20, 1730, both give a guest performance in Dresden from July 7 to October 8, 1731 , where Hasse premieres his opera Cleofide on September 13 . In the audience are also Johann Sebastian Bach and his eldest son , Wilhelm Friedemann , often in later years the Dresden Court Opera visit to hear "pretty little songs" as the Thomas Kantor called hate arias slightly mocking.
• Johann Mattheson wrote the music-theoretical writings Generalbaßschule and The exemplary organist rehearsal.
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  First page of the score by Giovanni Battista Pergolesis Li prodigi della divina grazia nella conversione e morte di san Guglielmo duca d'Aquitania .
  Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's long years of study at the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo in Naples are drawing to a close. He has already started to make a name for himself and does not need to pay tuition fees, as he first appears as a choir singer and later as a violinist at musical events. From 1729-30 he was first violinist ("capoparanza") of an instrumental group, and according to a later report it is the oratorio of Filippo Neri that makes the most use of his artistic services and those of other "mastricelli" ("little masters") of the Conservatory power. After completing his studies, Pergolesi received his first commission from this religious order, and on March 19, 1731 , his first important work was carried out in the atrium of its church in Naples, today's Chiesa dei Girolamini and the then seat of the Congregazione di San Giuseppe, the oratorio La fenice sul rogo, o vero La morte di San Giuseppe, performed. In the following summer, Pergolesi will set the three-act dramma sacro by Ignatio Mancini Li prodigi della divina grazia nella conversione e morte di san Guglielmo duca d'Aquitania to music as the thesis of his studies . It is performed in the courtyard of the monastery of S. Agnello in Naples, a seat of the Augustinian Canons of the Lateran .

World premieres

Stage works

Opera

Georg Friedrich Händel - Poro - title page of the first print of the aria score - London 1731

Johann Adolph Hasse - Cleofide - title page of the libretto - Dresden 1731

Antonio Caldara - Sant'Elena al Calvario - title page of the libretto - Vienna 1731

January 12th : The pasticcio

• Venceslao by George Frideric Handel based on Apostolo Zeno has its world premiere at the King's Theater on the Haymarket in London. However, it fails and only sees four performances.
• January 22 : The dramma per musica in three acts Annibale of Gemi Niano Giacomelli on the libretto by Filippo Vanstryp is listed in Rome at the Teatro Capranica for the first time.

• February 2 : The opera Poro (HWV 28) by Georg Friedrich hands l to Libret to Alessandr o nell'In the of Pietr o Metasta sio will be premiered in London at King's Theater in the Haymarket. The castrato Senesino sings the title role . The premiere was a success, followed by 15 more performances.
• March 20 : The libretto Sant'Elena al Calvario by Pietro Metastas io is in the setting by Antonio Cald ara in Hofburgkap elle premiered in Vienna.
• April 6th : The heavily revised new version of the opera Rinaldo (HWV 7b) by Georg Friedrich Handel is premiered at the King's Theater on the Haymarket in London. In the premiere, the Goffredo by Annibale Pio Fabri, called “Balino” ( tenor ), the Almirena by Anna Maria Strada del Pò ( soprano ), the Rinaldo by Francesco Bernardi, called “ Senesino ” (alto castrato ), the Argante by Francesca Bertolli ( alto ) embodied Armida by Antonia Margherita Merighi (alto) and Mago by Giovanni Giuseppe Commano ( bass ). The opera has a total of six performances.
• August 28 : To celebrate the birthday of Empress Elisabeth , the wife of Charles VI. That is festa teatrale Il tempio dell'eternità of Johann Joseph Fu x to a libretto by Pietro Metastasio in Favorita Gart en premiered. The elaborate stage design is designed by Giuseppe Galli da Bibi ena .
• November 4 : The first performance of the opera Demetrio of Antonio Calda ra to a libretto by Pietro Metastasio on Hofthea ter in Vienna to celebrate the name day of Emperor Charles VI. is a great success.
• November 14 : The opera Annibale by Nicola Porpora based on the libretto by Filippo Vanstryp is premiered in Venice.
• December 26th : The dramma per musica in three acts Epaminonda by Geminiano Giacomelli to the libretto by Domenico L alli is premiered in Venice, at the Teatro San Giovanni Crisostomo.

• Tommaso Albinoni - Fano
• Antonio Caldara - David umiliato
• Francesco Corradini - Con amor non hay libertad (Libretto by José de Cañizares )
• Francesco Corselli - Venere placata (libretto by Claudio Nicola Stampa; Dramma per musica; world premiere in Venice)

• Johann Adolf Hasse
  • Cleofide (libretto by Pietro Metastasio, arranged by Michelangelo Boccardi; world premiere in Dresden)
  • Catone in Utica (libretto by Pietro Metastasio; world premiere in Turin; incomplete)
• Nicola Porpora - Alessandro nell'Indie (libretto by Pietro Metastasio; world premiere in Turin)
• Antonio Vivaldi
  • Alvida, regina de Goti (RV Anh. 88)
  • Armida al campo d'Egitto (RV Anh. 90)

Oratorio

• March 19 : The oratorio La fenice sul rogo, o vero La morte di San Giuseppe by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi is premiered in the atrium of the Chiesa dei Girolamini in Naples .
• March 23rd : The Markus Passion (BWV 247) by Johann Sebastian Bach is premiered on Good Friday in Leipzig in the St. Thomas Church.
• Summer: The three-act dramma sacro by Ignatio Mancini Li prodigi della divina grazia nella conversione e morte di san Guglielmo duca d'Aquitania in the setting by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi is performed in the courtyard of the monastery of S. Agnello in Naples, a seat of the Augustinian Canons of Lateran , listed.
• Antonio Caldara - Sant'Elena al Calvario (Vienna 1731)
• Francesco Feo
  • Per i Defunti
  • Il Genera umano in Catena liberato da nostra signora
• Benedetto Marcello - Il pianto e il riso delle quattro stagioni dell'anno per la morte, esultazione e coronazione di Maria Assunta in Cielo (world premiere in Macerata)
• Georg Philipp Telemann - Holy Feast of Reconciliation (TWV 5:16)

Instrumental music

Concerts

• Christoph Graupner
  • Flute Concerto in D major (GWV 312)
  • Concerto for Flauto d'amore, Oboe d'amore and Viola d'amore in G major (GWV 333)
• Antonio Vivaldi
  • Bassoon Concerto in C major (RV 473, composed around 1730/1731)
  • Bassoon Concerto in A minor (RV 500, composed around 1730/1731)
  • Horn Concerto in F major (RV 538, composed 1730/1731)
  • Horn Concerto in F major (RV 539, composed 1730/1731)
  • Concerto in D major (RV 93, composed around 1730/1731)
  • Concerto in G minor (RV 155, composed around 1730/1731)
  • Concerto in B flat major (Conca) (RV 163, composed around 1730/1731)
  • various violin concertos (cannot be precisely dated)

Chamber music

• Carl Phillipp Emanuel Bach
  • Trio sonata in D minor (H. 569, Wq. 145, formerly attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach as BWV 1036)
  • Trio sonata in C major (H. 571, Wq. 147)
• Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
  • 6 Gentillesses en trois parties , Op. 33 (Paris)
  • 6 Sonates à quatre parties différentes et égalment travailées , Op. 34 (Paris)
  • 6 Suites de Pieces , Op. 35 (Paris)
• Christoph Graupner - Trio Sonata in E minor (GWV 209)
• Antonio Vivaldi
  • Trio in C major (RV 82, composed around 1730/1731?)
  • Trio in G minor (RV 85, composed around 1730/1731?)

flute

• Louis de Caix d'Hervelois - Deuxième recueil de pièces pour la flûte avec la basse
• Johann Joachim Quantz - 6 flute sonatas (RISM Q. 33)

Lute

• Johann Sebastian Bach - Suite in G minor (BWV 995, composed 1727–31)

Viol

• Jean-Baptiste Barrière - Sonatas for Pardessus de viole, Livre 5
• Louis de Caix d'Hervelois - Quatre suites de pièces pour la viole avec la basse chiffrée en partitions , Op. 3

violin

• Jacques Aubert - Livres de sonates pour violon et B. c., Volume 4
• Michele Mascitti - 12 Sonata a Violino solo e Basso , Op. 8 (Paris)
• Giuseppe Tartini
  • Pastorale in A major (B.A16)
  • Violin Sonata in G major (B.G17)
  • Violin Sonata in G minor "Didone abbandonata" (B.g10)

Keyboard music

harpsichord

Courante (detail) from the Partita in C minor BWV 826 by JS Bach

• Johann Sebastian Bach - Collective publication of the 6 harpsichord partitas BWV 825-830, previously published individually, under the title: Clavir exercise / consisting of / Præludien, Allemanden, Couranten, Sarabanden, Giguen, / Minuets, and other galanteries; / Manufactured for those lovers to indulge their spirits ... / OPUS 1 (also known as piano exercise, part I )
• William Babell - Prelude in F major (IWB 10)
• Carl Phillipp Emanuel Bach - Sonata in B flat major (H. 2, Wq. 62/1)
• Louis-Antoine Dornel - Pièces de Clavecin (Paris)

Vocal music

Spiritually

• Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Cantata We thank you, God, we thank you (BWV 29)
  • Cantata Swing up joyfully (BWV 36)
  • Cantata The Lord Is My Faithful Shepherd (BWV 112)
  • Cantata Wake up, the voice calls us (BWV 140)
  • Cantata So fight now, you lively tones (BWV Anh. 10)
  • Christe eleison (BWV 242, composed 1727–31?)
  • Magnificat (BWV 243, composed around 1728-31)
• Joseph Balthasar Hochreither - Missa festa Jubilus sacer
• Giovanni Battista Pergolesi - Mass in D major (Kyrie and Gloria) for two five-part choirs
• Georg Philipp Telemann - Harmonious Divine Service (continuation of the work from 1725-26; composed 1731-32)
• Antonio Vivaldi - Motets a. Ä. (cannot be precisely dated)
• Jan Dismas Zelenka - Missa Sancti Josephi in D major (ZWV 14, composed approx. 1731)

Textbooks u. a.

• Benedetto Marcello - A. Dio: Sonetti… con altre rime, d'argomento sacro e morale (Venice)
• Johann Mattheson - Grosse General-Baß-Schule or: The exemplary organist rehearsal (Hamburg)

Instrument making

• Antonio Stradivari produces in his workshop
  • the violin: Lady Jeanne
  • the viola: Paganini Mendelssohn (the viola of the Paganini Quartet )
  • the cellos: Braga and Giese
• Gottfried Silbermann
  • is the organ in the village church in Reinhardtsgrimma finished
  • finishes the work on the organ in the town church in Mylau
  • begins with the construction of the organ in the church of Crostau in Crostau .

Born

• 0March 7th : Jean-Louis Laruette , French composer and singer († 1792 )
• March 29 : Ludwig Zöschinger , German clergyman, composer and organist († 1806 )
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  November 27 : Gaetano Pugnani , Italian violinist and composer († 1798 )
• 0December 8th (baptized): Franz Xaver Duschk , Bohemian composer, harpsichordist and pianist († 1799 )
• December 28th (baptized): Christian Cannabich , German violinist, conductor and composer († 1798 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• Desboulmiers , French writer and librettist († 1771 )
  

Died

• January 27 : Bartolomeo Cristofori , Italian musical instrument maker, inventor of the fortepiano (* 1655 )
• May 1 : Johann Ludwig Bach , German composer (* 1677 )
• July 5th (buried): Jakob Greber , German composer
• August 17th : Johann Augustin Kobelius , German composer and conductor (* 1674 )
• September 1 : Pierre Danican Philidor , French composer (* 1681 )
• November 2 : Johann Matthäus Leffloth , Nuremberg composer, organist and clavichordist (* 1705 )
• December 14th : Joseph Balthasar Hochreither , Austrian organist and composer (* 1669 )
• December 26th : Antoine Houdar de la Motte , French playwright, librettist and poet (* 1672 )

See also

Portal: Music  - Overview of Wikipedia content on music

Web links

Commons : Music 1731  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Commons : Opera Libretti 1731  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Antonio Vivaldi - Works sorted by date of origin. In: Klassika.info. Retrieved August 28, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Georg Philipp Telemann - Works sorted by genre. Retrieved September 3, 2019 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Johann Sebastian Bach - Works sorted by date of origin. In: Klassika.info. Retrieved August 28, 2019 .