Music year 1739

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Music year 1739
Bach's Piano Exercise III
Title page of Johann Sebastian Bach's 3rd part of the keyboard exercise from 1739
Autograph of the prelude in E flat major BWV 552 by Johann Sebastian Bach from the 3rd part of the keyboard exercise.

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.
  • In 1739, Bach published a series of organ works as the third and most extensive part of his keyboard exercise at 77 pages . The framework is provided by the prelude and fugue in E flat major , with 21 chorale adaptations in between. The original title of the work is:

"Third part / the / piano exercise / consisting / in / various preludes / about the / catechism and other chants, / in front of the organ: / For lovers, and especially those who are familiar with / of such work, for the stimulation of the mind / made by / Johann Sebastian Bach, / Koenigl. Pohlnischen, and Churfürstl. Saechs. / Hoff-Compositeur Capellmeister, and / Directore Chori Musici in Leipzig. / In relocation of the Authoris "

georg Friedrich Handel

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.
  • May 6th : Scarlatti's first wife Maria Caterina dies in Aranjuez .
  • Scarlatti publishes his 30 Essercizi per Gravicembalo (= 30 exercises for harpsichord) with Adamo Scola in London . The compositions dedicated to the Spanish king made him famous all over Europe as a legendary harpsichord virtuoso and influenced the works of other composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach (Fantasia in C minor BWV 906, Goldberg Variations ), Jacques Duphly , Pietro Domenico Paradies or Muzio Clementi . The dedication text of the 30 Essercizi per Gravicembalo shows that at least some, if not all of these pieces must have been made in Portugal:

"... They are compositions that were born under the highest auspices of YOUR MAJESTY, in the service of your deservedly fortunate daughter, the PRINCESS OF ASTURIAS, and your most deserving brother, the Infante DON ANTONIO ..."

- Domenico Scarlatti: from the dedication of the "Essercizi" to John V of Portugal, 1739.

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.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann publishes the description of the eye organ , an instrument designed by the mathematician and Jesuit father Louis-Bertrand Castel , which Telemann visited during his trip to Paris.
  • Telemann is accepted into the Corresponding Society of Musical Sciences , founded by Lorenz Mizler , which deals with questions of music theory.

Antonio Vivaldi

Other biographical events

"Anyone who knows the difficulty of the lute for harmonious evasions and well-executed sentences must be amazed and hardly believe it when eye and ear witnesses assure that the great Dresden lutenist Weisse with Sebastian Bach, who was also great as a piano and organ player, fantasized in the bet and executed fugitive sentences. "

- - Johann Friedrich Reichardt

World premieres

Stage works

Opera
Oratorio

Instrumental music

Concerts

  • Jacques Aubert - 4 concertos for four violins, cello and B. c., Op. 26th
  • Francesco Geminiani - 6 Concerti grossi, Op. 4 (London)
  • georg Friedrich Handel
    • Concerto Grosso in G major (HWV 319, published 1740)
    • Concerto Grosso in C minor (HWV 326, published 1740)
    • Concerto Grosso in F major (HWV 327, published 1740)
    • Concerto Grosso in B flat minor (HWV 330, published 1740)

Chamber music

  • Nicolas Chédeville - Les galanteries amusantes, Op. 8 (for two musettes de cour, hurdy-gurdy, transverse flutes or violins and B. c.)
  • Georg Friedrich Handel - Trio Sonatas, Op. 5 (London)

flute

  • Nicolas Chédeville - 6 sonates for flute, oboe or violin and B. c., Op. 7th
  • Willem de Fesch - Sonata for 2 violins or flutes, Op. 9 ( Walsh / London)
  • Clair-Nicolas Roget - 6 Sonatas for 2 Flutes, Op. 1

violin

Keyboard music

harpsichord

organ

  • Johann Sebastian Bach - Keyboard Exercise III
    • Prelude and Fugue in E flat major (BWV 552)
    • 21 chorale arrangements (BWV 669–689)
      • Kyrie, God the Father for ever , G-Phrygian   a 2 clav. e pedals (BWV 669)
      • Christ, all the world's consolation, G-Phrygian   a 2 clav. e Ped. (BWV 670)
      • Kyrie, God Holy Spirit, G-Phrygian   a 5 con Organo pleno (BWV 671)
      • Kyrie, God the Father in Eternity 3/4, G major   Alio modo. Manualiter (BWV 672)
      • Christe, all over the world comfort 6/8, C major (BWV 673)
      • Kyrie, God Holy Spirit 9/8, G major (BWV 674)
      • God alone in the heights be honor 3/4, F major   a 3 (BWV 675)
      • Only God on high be Ehr 6/8, G major   a 2 clav. e pedals (BWV 676)
      • Fughetta super: Only God in the Heights be Ehr Manualiter (BWV 677)
      • These are the holy ten commandments 6/4, G major   a 2 clav. e pedals (BWV 678)
      • Fughetta super: These are the holy ten commandments 12/8, G major   Manualiter (BWV 679)
      • We all believe in one God 2/4   In Organo pleno (BWV 680)
      • Fughetta super: We all believe in one God   Manualiter (BWV 681)
      • Our Father in the Kingdom of Heaven 3/4   a 2 Clav. e pedals (BWV 682)
      • Our Father in the Kingdom of Heaven 6/8   Alio modo. Manualiter (BWV 683)
      • Christ our Lord came to Jordan in C minor (BWV 684)
      • Christ our Lord to the Jordan came 3/4   Alio modo. Manualiter (BWV 685)
      • In deep distress I scream to you  a 6 in Organo pleno con Pedale doppio (BWV 686)
      • In deep distress I scream to you   Alio modo. Manualiter (BWV 687)
      • Jesus Christ our Savior  a 2 Clav. ( BWV 688)
      • Fugue super: Jesus Christ our Savior   a 4 manualiter (BWV 689)
    • Four duets (BWV 802–805)
      • Duetto E minor 3/8 (BWV 802)
      • Duetto F major 2/4 (BWV 803)
      • Duetto in G major 12/8 (BWV 804)
      • Duetto in A minor (BWV 805)
  • Jean-François Dandrieu - Premier Livre de Pièces d'Orgue (6 suites, prepared shortly before his death and published in 1739)

Vocal music

Spiritually

  • René Drouard de Bousset - 2nd recueil de cantates spirituelles tirées des histoires les plus intéressantes de l'Ancien Testament à voix seule, et à deux voix avec simphonie et sans simphonie
  • Bartolomeo Felici - Compieta a 4 voci - title page of the manuscript
    Bartolomeo Felici - Compieta a 4 voci
  • Leonardo Leo - Miserere
  • Luca Antonio Predieri - Magnificat (3 versions composed 1739, 1740 and 1746)
  • Antonio Vivaldi
    • In exitu Israel (RV 604)
    • Lauda Jerusalem (RV 609)
    • Magnificat (RV 610)
    • Confitebor tibi Domine (RV 789)
    • Beatus vir (RV 795)
    • Nisi Dominus (RV 803, composed 1739?)

Worldly

Johann Mattheson - The perfect Capellmeister - title page
  • Georg Philipp Telemann - 6 moral cantatas (TWV 20: 29–34)

Popular music

Textbooks

Instrument making

Born

Date of birth saved

Exact date of birth unknown

Born around 1739

Francesco Alborea
Benedetto Marcello
Landgrave Ernst Ludwig of Hesse-Darmstadt

Died

Date of death secured

Exact date of death unknown

Died after 1739

See also

Portal: Music  - Overview of Wikipedia content on music

Web links

Commons : Music 1739  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1739  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. Georg Friedrich Händel - Works sorted by date of origin. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
  2. Antonio Vivaldi - Works sorted by date of origin. In: Klassika.info. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .