Music year 1738

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Music year 1738
Scarlatti
Domenico Scarlatti, portrayed by Domingo Antonio Velasco. The only surviving portrait of Scarlatti dates from around 1738 and was probably painted on the occasion of his appointment as Knight of the Order of Santiago.

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 in Weimar and Köthen. 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.
  • April 28 : Johann Sebastian Bach performs his cantata Willkommen, you ruling gods of the earth (BWV Appendix 13), composed in Leipzig, as a tribute to the royal couple and to the upcoming marriage of Karl III. with Maria Amalia for the first time. The text comes from Johann Christoph Gottsched (also called Picander ).
  • June 24th : World premiere of the sacred cantata Reue dich, Redeemed Schar (BWV 30).
  • Johann Sebastian Bach publishes his rules and principles for the four-part playing of the general bass or accompaniment for his scholars in music. In it, Bach formulates a concise definition of the figured bass:

“The general bass is the perfect foundation of music which is played with both hands in such a way that the left hand plays the prescribed notes, but the right hand plays con and dissonants so that this gives a brilliant harmony to the glory of God and permissible delight of the mind and should like all music, including that of the general bass finis and end-cause, nothing else than just for God's honor and recreation of the mind. Where this is not taken into account, there is no actual music, but a devilish Geplerr and Geleyer. "

- Johann Sebastian Bach : Regulations and principles for four-part playing of the general bass or Accompagnement 1738

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 Memorial 1738, Vauxhall Gardens London , by Louis-François Roubiliac (now on display in the Victoria and Albert Museum )

January 3rd : The famous castrato Caffarelli , who accepted an invitation from Georg Friedrich Händel, sings the title role at the premiere of his opera Faramondo based on a literary model by Apostolo Zeno at the Kings' Theater . Despite favorable reviews, the piece only got seven performances and was then canceled.

  • February 25 : The opera seria Alessandro Severo by Georg Friedrich Händel has its world premiere at London's Kings' Theater . The title role is again sung by Caffarelli. The piece flops and will only be performed six times until May 30th, after which it will no longer be performed. Only the vocal and instrumental benefit concert on March 28th, which Handel organized for himself after the bankruptcy of his opera company and urgently requested by his friends and singers , is so crowded with almost 1,300 visitors that you have to place rows of seats or benches on the stage. and therefore Handel receives ample income to cover debts.
  • April 15 : The opera Serse by Georg Friedrich Händel, HWV 40 , based on the play Il Xerse by Nicolò Minato, has its world premiere at London's Kings' Theater . This piece, too, is canceled after five performances and has not been played for almost 200 years. Since Caffarelli does not like Handel's music, and he is just as unconvinced of the singer's interpretation, the collaboration is ended again at the end of the season.
  • Georg Friedrich Handel publishes his six Organ Concertos No. 1–6 op. 4 (HWV 289–294) with John Walsh in London.
  • In honor of Georg Friedrich, a life-size monument created by Louis-François Roubiliac is erected in Vauxhall Gardens .

Domenico Scarlatti

  • Domenico Scarlatti is the Portuguese princess Maria Bárbara de Bragança , whom he met at the court of the pious and extravagant King John V in Lisbon and taught as a music teacher, after her marriage to the Spanish heir to the throne Don Fernando of Asturias (from 1746 King Ferdinand VI. ) followed to Spain. From October 1730 to May 16, 1733, the Alcázares Reales in Seville was his permanent residence and place of work. Then the farm moves north to the area around Madrid , where, depending on the season, it alternates between the castles of Buen Retiro , El Pardo , Aranjuez , La Granja and El Escorial . Scarlatti is probably still in the "private" service of Maria Bárbara and seems to devote himself almost exclusively to the harpsichord and the composition of his sonatas.
  • April 21 : Scarlatti loaded in the Capuchin monastery San Antonio del Prado, with the approval of the Portuguese king John V. the vows as a knight of the Order of Santiago on.

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 took over the management of the Hamburg Opera on Gänsemarkt for an annual salary of 300 thalers , which he held until the house was closed in 1738.
  • May: Georg Philipp Telemann returns to Hamburg from his much-noticed trip to Paris. Following a long-cherished wish and invited by musicians Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Forqueray , Jean-Pierre Guignon and Michel Blavet , he left for Paris in autumn 1737. With several performances of his works Telemann finally achieved international fame here. He is the first German composer to introduce himself at the Concert Spirituel .

Antonio Vivaldi

Other biographical events

  • In 1738 Caffarelli accepted an invitation to the Haymarket Theater in London , directed by Georg Friedrich Handel , where he participated in the world premieres of Handel's operas Faramondo and Serse . For Caffarelli, Handel wrote the famous aria “Ombra mai fu” from Serse (generally known as “Largo von Handel”), but Handel found little taste in Handel's music (and Handel, for his part, did not like Caffarelli's interpretation). Since he does not like England itself either, he will return to his home country after the end of the season.
  • Farinelli , who has been in Spain since 1737, stayed here for almost twenty-five years (1737–1759). His singing is used by Queen Elisabetta Farnese to cure Philip V's severe depression , just as the famous soprano Matteuccio had done for Charles II 40 years earlier . For nine years (until Philip's death in 1746) Farinelli was only allowed to sing for the king - this retreat from a public opera career at the age of only 32 adds to his myth. According to a letter from Farinelli dated February 15, 1738 to his friend Count Pepoli, he “has to perform eight or nine arias every evening. There is never a break ”. Later, writes Charles Burney appealing to Farinelli's own statement that there were always the same have been four arias, including Johann Adolph Hasse " Per questo dolce amplesso " and " Pallido il Sole " from hatred Artaserse and a Menuet (perhaps Fortunate passate mie pene of Attilio Ariosti ), "which he tends to change as he likes", that is to say, with so-called arbitrary decorations .
  • Geminiano Giacomelli was appointed conductor of the Santa Casa in Loreto on November 24, 1738 as successor to Tommaso Redi , where he worked until his death in 1740.
  • Antonia Maria Merighi is returning to London again to co-design both Handel opera premieres and operas by other composers. She also sings at Handel's benefit concert in the King's Theater .
  • Georg Reutter the Younger succeeds his father as the first conductor at St. Stephen's Cathedral . In this office, the cathedral choir boys are also subordinate to him.

Foundations

World premieres

Stage works

Opera

  • Anonymous - Il Bajazette - Title page of the libretto - Modena 1738

  • Anonymous - Il Bajazette - Title page of the libretto - Vicenza 1738

  • George Frideric Handel - Faramondo - Title page of the libretto - London 1737

  • Georg Friedrich Händel - Serse - Title page of the libretto - London 1738

  • Johann Adolph Hasse - La clemenza di Tito - Title page of the libretto - Dresden 1738

  • Nicola Logroscino - Quinto Fabio title page of the libretto - Rome 1738

  • Luca Antonio Predieri - La pace fra la virtù e la bellezza - Title page of the libretto - Vienna 1738

  • Georg Reutter - Il Parnaso accusato e difeso - Title page of the libretto - Vienna 1738

  • Antonio Vivaldi - Rosmira - Title page of the libretto - Venice 1738

Oratorio
  • Jean-Joseph Fiocco - Le profezie evangeliche di Isaia (1738)
  • Luca Antonio Predieri - Il sacrificio d'Abramo , (Libretto by Francesca Menzoni-Giusti; world premiere in Vienna)
  • Georg Philipp Telemann - O help Christ, Son of God (TWV 5:23)

Instrumental music

Concerts

flute

Georg Philipp Telemann

  • 18 Canons Mélodieux (TWV 40: 118–123)

violin

violoncello

Keyboard music

harpsichord

  • Johann Sebastian Bach - Harpsichord Concerto No. 3 in D major (BWV 1054)
  • Josse Boutmy - Pièces de clavecin, Livre 1
  • Domenico Scarlatti
    • Essercizi per Gravicembalo (K.1-30)
    • 42 Suites de Pieces pour le Clavecin (K.1-42)
  • Georg Philipp Telemann
    • Fugues légères & petits jeux (TWV 30: 21–26)

organ

  • Georg Friedrich Handel - Organ Concerts No. 1–6 op. 4 (HWV 289–294)
  • Johann Gottfried Walther - Harmonious denck and danish meal

Vocal music

Spiritually

Worldly

Clavichord by Daniel Stråhle (1738)

Textbooks

  • Johann Sebastian Bach - rules and principles for four-part playing of the general bass or accompaniment for his scholars in music
  • Johann Philipp Eisel - Musicus autodidaktos or the self-informed Musicus (Erfurt)
Organ by Johann Ernst Döring, Ostheim fortified church in front of the Rhön

Instrument making

Born

Exact date of birth not known

Born around 1738

Died

Turlough O'Carolan

See also

Portal: Music  - Overview of Wikipedia content on music

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