Music year 1740
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In Turin the Teatro Regio di Torino opens with Francesco Feo's opera Arsace. An 18th century drawing by Pietro Domenico Oliviero shows the stage and interior of the theater building. |
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 the 1740s, Bach - with a few exceptions - withdrew from new compositions for the church. In addition to commissioned work for secular occasions, he concentrates entirely on extensive works for the harpsichord. His eyesight also deteriorates more and more.
- August 29 : Bach's cantata Ruler of Heaven, King of Honor (BWV Appendix 193) is premiered.
- The second part of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier , a collection of preludes and fugues for a keyboard instrument, the first part of which dates from 1722, was created in the years 1740–1742.
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 .
- February 27 : The world premiere of the three-part oratorio L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato by Georg Friedrich Händel takes place with great success at the Theater Royal, Lincoln's Inn Fields . The libretto by Charles Jennens based on two poems by John Milton .
- November 22nd : The Dramma per musica Imeneo by George Frideric Handel has its world premiere in London at the Theater Royal, Lincoln's Inn Fields. The reactions of the critics and the public are mixed.
- A trip to Germany by Handel in 1740 is hardly documented. He may still have plans to start a new opera company and is looking for singers; or he is at the Berlin court, as reported by the Hamburg Relations Courier , to check his professional opportunities in Germany.
- Georg Friedrich Händel publishes further organ concerts with John Walsh in London with A Second Set of Six Concertos . In 1738 he published the first six organ concertos nos. 1-6 op. 4 (HWV 289-294). Handel's organ concertos are his own invention and, along with Bach's harpsichord concerts, are at the beginning of the development of the concert for keyboard instrument and orchestra. Handel usually plays his organ concerts during the breaks in large oratorios on a positive organ that was specially built for him . In the printed edition of 1738 the harpsichord and the harp (Op. 4 No. 6) are also given as possible solo instruments. Compared to the six concertos op. 4, the two from the Second Series (published in 1740, the first with the nickname The Cuckoo and the Nightingale ) are distinguished by the fact that many passages and entire movements are marked as " ad libitum ", i.e. Handel plays ex tempore during the performances .
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.
- After the death of his first wife Maria Caterina on May 6, 1739 in Aranjuez, Domenico Scarlatti married Anastasia Ximénez from Cádiz sometime between 1740 and 1742.
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 Hamburg Telemann also resumes his work as a publisher. To keep costs down, he stabs himself either the copper plates, or he uses a 1699 by William Pearson developed and until then in use in England alone process in which he with pencil mirrored the notes on a sheet of Ha rtzinn records. The printing plate is then scraped and peeled off by another. Telemann manages nine to ten plates a day. By 1740 he self-published 46 music works, which he sold to booksellers in several German cities as well as in Amsterdam and London .
- In a newspaper advertisement published in October 1740, Telemann offered the printing plates of 44 self-published works for sale, as he now wanted to concentrate on the publication of textbooks.
- Telemann's numerous funeral music for high-ranking personalities of his time also includes a lost funeral music for the Roman-German Emperor Charles VI. from 1740.
Antonio Vivaldi
- Antonio Vivaldi , who had been musical director of the Teatro Sant'Angelo in his hometown of Venice since 1726 and became a living legend as a composer as well as a violin virtuoso and a “pilgrimage destination” for many musicians from all over Europe, moved to Vienna in 1740 for support with Emperor Karl VI. who, however, dies in October 1740. The reason is probably the change in musical taste that began around 1730, which led to Vivaldi's compositions becoming less and less appealing to the (Venetian) audience. In Vienna, the once most famous musician in Europe remains unnoticed by the music world.
Other biographical events
- Michel Blavet , who had been the music superintendent of the Count of Clermont since 1732 and was also a member of Louis XV's royal chapel in Versailles from 1738 . joins the orchestra of the Paris Opera.
- The music composed by Baldassare Galuppi for the feast of St. Maria Magdalena led to his employment from 1740 to 1751 as “Maestro di coro” at the Ospedale dei Mendicanti in Venice, which ensured him a certain financial independence. In 1740, Oronte was his first opera for the stage of the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo . Shortly afterwards he received an invitation to London , where he conducted eleven opera performances during a year and a half, including four new works of his own.
- After Frederick II's accession to the throne, Carl Heinrich Graun was appointed Kapellmeister and sent to Italy to recruit singers for the Italian Opera to be built in Berlin.
- Johann Mattheson publishes his basis of an honor gate. It is a comprehensive work of 149 musicians, some of whose biographies he knows through personal contact. Many of the articles are also autobiographies that would probably not have been written without Mattheson's request.
- Carlo Tessarini takes over the direction of a theater orchestra in Rome, which he took over after the death of Pope Clement XII. have to give up.
Openings
- December 26th : The Teatro Regio di Torino (German Royal Theater of Turin ) opens with Francesco Feo's opera Arsace . The opera and theater house in the Piedmontese capital Turin was built by the builder Benedetto Alfieri according to plans by the architect Filippo Juvarra on the Piazza Castello in the city center.
World premieres
Stage works
Opera
- January 20: The dramma per musica in three acts Il trionfo di Camilla by Nicola Antonio Porpora based on the libretto by Silvio Stampiglia is premiered at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples .
- January: The Dramma per musica Adriano in Siria by Baldassare Galuppi on the libretto by Pietro Metastasio is premiered at the Teatro Regio in Turin .
- February 27 : The world premiere of the three-part oratorio L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato by Georg Friedrich Handel takes place at the theater in Lincoln's Inn Fields with great success. The libretto by Charles Jennens based on two poems by John Milton .
- Carnival: The opera Semiramide riconosciuta by Bernardo Aliprandi based on the libretto by Pietro Metastasio is premiered in Munich .
- Carnival: World premiere of the opera La Beatrice by Vincenzo L Limitio Ciampi based on the libretto by Gennaro Antonio Federico at the Teatro Nuovo in Naples.
- Carnival: The opera Achille in Sciro by Leonardo Leo is premiered at the Teatro Regio in Turin .
- 25 May : The opera Gustavo primo re di Svezia by Baldassare Galuppi based on the libretto by Carlo Goldoni is premiered at the Teatro San Samuele in Venice .
- Summer: L'Alidoro , an opera buffa by Leonardo Leo based on the libretto by Gennaro Antonio Federico, has its world premiere at the Teatro dei Fiorentini in Naples.
- August 1st : The Masque Alfred by Thomas Arne based on the libretto by David Mallet and James Thomson is performed for the first time at the country estate of Prince of Wales Friedrich Ludwig von Hanover in Cliveden ( Buckinghamshire ). The final song of the work is the patriotic song Rule, Britannia! .
- August 28 : The opera Zenobia by Luca Antonio Predieri based on the libretto by Pietro Metastasio is premiered in the Favorita in Vienna .
- October 1st : The Serenata Il natal di Giove ( The Birth of Jupiter ) by Giuseppe Bonno on the libretto by Pietro Metastasio is published on the occasion of the birthday of Emperor Charles VI. First performed in the private apartments of the imperial residence of the Favorita in Vienna by the Archduchesses Maria Theresia and Maria Anna , Prince Charles de Lorraine and two members of the court.
- November 22nd : The Dramma per musica Imeneo (HWV 41) by Georg Friedrich Händel has its world premiere in London. The reactions of the critics and the public are mixed.
- December 19 : The Dramma per musica Tiridate by Nicola Antonio Porpora based on the libretto Zenobia by Pietro Metastasio is premiered at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
- December 26th : World premiere of the opera Arsace by Francesco Feo based on the libretto by Antonio Salvi at the Teatro Regio di Torino in Turin. It is Francesco Feo's last composed opera.
- December 26th : The opera Oronte re de 'Sciti by Baldassare Galuppi based on the libretto by Carlo Goldoni is premiered at the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo in Venice .
- December 26 : Baldassare Galuppi's opera Didone abbandonata based on the libretto by Pietro Metastasio is premiered at the Teatro Molza in Modena .
- Wilhelmine of Bayreuth - Argenore
- Giuseppe Bonno - La generosa Spartana (world premiere in Laxenburg )
- Maurice Greene - The Judgment of Hercules
Oratorio
- February 12 : The oratorio Isacco figura del redentore by Luca Antonio Predieri based on a libretto by Pietro Metastasio is premiered in the Hofburg Chapel in Vienna.
- February 27 : The world premiere of the three-part oratorio L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (HWV 55) by Georg Friedrich Händel takes place with great success at the Theater Royal, Lincoln's Inn Fields . Charles Jennens' libretto is based on two poems by John Milton .
- Giuseppe Bonno - San Paolo in Athena
- Geminiano Giacomelli - Santa Giuliana Falconieri (libretto by Gregorio Giacomo Terribilini; world premiere in Genoa )
- Johann Adolph Hasse - Serpentes ignei in deserto (Libretto by Bonaventura Bonomo; first performance in Venice?)
- Georg Philipp Telemann - O help Christ, Son of God (TWV 5:25)
Instrumental music
Concerts
- Georg Friedrich Handel - 12 Concerti Grossi , Op. 6th
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Symphony in G major (RV 149)
- Violin Concerto in A major (RV 552)
- Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer - Concerti Armonici (composed between 1725–1740)
Chamber music
- Tomaso Albinoni - Six sonates da camera “op. post. "(Paris)
- Antoine Dauvergne - 6 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1
- Michel-Richard Delalande - Noëls en Trio avec un Carillon (p.173.24)
- Carlo Tessarini - 6 Allettamenti da camera , Op. 3
flute
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Flute Sonata in A minor (H.555)
- Michel Blavet - 6 Flute Sonatas, Op. 3
musette
- Esprit Philippe Chédeville - 6 Sonatilles galantes, Op. 6th
- Nicolas Chédeville - Les Deffis ou l'étude amusante , Op. 9
violin
- Louis de Caix d'Hervelois - 4th Livre de pièces à deux violes contenant deux suites et trois sonates
- Antoine Dauvergne - 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 2
- Christoph Graupner - Violin Sonata in G minor (GWV 711)
- Johan Helmich Roman - Assaggio in G minor (BeRI 314)
- Giuseppe Tartini - Violin Concerto in C major (D.1)
- Antonio Vivaldi - 6 Cello Sonatas, Le Clerc Op. 14th
violoncello
- Jean-Baptiste Barrière - Livre IV de sonates pour violoncelle et la basse continue (Paris)
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Cello Sonata in E minor (RV 40; composed no later than 1740)
- Cello Sonata in F major (RV 41; composed no later than 1740)
- Cello Sonata in A minor (RV 43; composed no later than 1740)
- Cello Sonata in B flat major (RV 45; composed no later than 1740)
- Cello Sonata in B flat major (RV 46; composed no later than 1740)
Keyboard music
harpsichord
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Concerto for 2 harpsichords in F major (H.408)
- Concerto for harpsichord in A major (H.410)
- Georg Philipp Telemann - 6 overtures for harpsichord (TWV 32: 5–10)
organ
- Georg Friedrich Händel - A Second Set of Six Concertos ( London )
Vocal music
Spiritually
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Luca Antonio Predieri
- Ave maris stella (SATB and orchestra; 3 versions composed 1738, 1740, 1746)
- Magnificat (SATB and orchestra; 3 versions composed 1739, 1740, 1746)
Worldly
- Thomas Arne - Cantata Black-Ey'd Susan (text by R. Leveridge; lost)
Popular music
- James Oswald - A Curious Collection of Scots Tunes
Textbooks
- Joseph Bodin de Boismortier - Principes de la Flute (lost)
- Michel Corrette - Méthode pour apprendre à jouër la flûtte
- John Frederick Lamp - The Art of Musick
- Johann Mattheson - basis of an honor gate
Instrument making
- Gottfried Silbermann is not only famous as an organ builder, but also as a builder of harpsichords, clavichords and pianos. During his time in Strasbourg (1701–1710) he was already building stringed keyboard instruments as an apprentice and journeyman with his brother Andreas Silbermann . The production of harpsichords and clavichords reached its first peak in the 1720s and led to a large number of exported “pianos” in the 1740s, including those for the Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Prussian courts. In the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden ( Pillnitz Castle ) there is a harpsichord (around 1740; Inv.No. 37413), whose attribution to Gottfried Silbermann is considered to be certain.
Born
- February 3 : Guillaume Lasceux , French composer and organist († 1831 )
- February 15 : Carl Michael Bellman , Swedish poet and composer († 1795 )
- February 15 : Ernst Eichner , German composer († 1777 )
- May 9 : Giovanni Paisiello , Neapolitan composer († 1816 )
- May 19 : Joseph Franz Weigl , Austrian cellist († 1820 )
- May 21 (baptized): Gaspare Pacchierotti , Italian opera singer and castrato († 1821 )
- May 24th : Edmund Angerer , Austrian Benedictine priest and church musician († 1794 )
- August 10 : Samuel Arnold , English composer († 1802 )
- November 4th : Augustus Montague Toplady , English clergyman and song poet († 1778 )
- November 14 : Johann van Beethoven , court musician from the Electorate of Cologne, father of Ludwig van Beethoven († 1792 )
- December 13 : Franz Xaver Schnizer , German composer and organist († 1785 )
- December 23 : Elisabeth Olin , Swedish opera singer († 1828 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Bazyli Bohdanowicz , Polish composer († 1817 )
- Francesc Queralt , Catalan conductor and composer († 1825 )
Born around 1740
- Rose Mooney , Irish harpist († around 1798 )
- Luigi Grassi , Italian opera singer († around 1802 )
Died
- January 2 : Johann Georg Weichenberger , Austrian lutenist and composer (* 1676 )
- January 5th : Antonio Lotti , Venetian composer (* 1665 )
- January 13 : William Turner , English singer (tenor) and composer (* 1651 )
- January 25th : Geminiano Giacomelli , Italian composer and singing teacher (* 1692 )
- February 9 : Vincent Lübeck , Prussian composer (* 1654 )
- February 28 : Pietro Ottoboni , Italian cardinal, patron and librettist (* 1667 )
- March: Georg Wilhelm Saxer , north German composer and organist
- April 21 : Johann Gottlob Pfeiffer , German Protestant theologian, orientalist and composer (* 1667 )
- April 23 : Daniel Croner , Transylvanian theologian and organist (* 1656 )
- October 22 : Johann Christoph Frauendorff , German librettist, lawyer and mayor (* 1664 )
Exact date of death unknown
- François Chauvon , French composer (* before 1700 )
Died around 1740
- François Dieupart , French violinist, harpsichordist and composer (* around 1667 )
Died after 1740
- David Baumann , German organ builder in Brandenburg and Mecklenburg
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1740 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1740 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Philipp Telemann - Works sorted by genre. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Antonio Vivaldi - Works sorted by date of origin. In: Klassika.info. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .