Music year 1740

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Music year 1740
The Royal Theater in Turin
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 .
    Portrait of Georg Friedrich Händel from 1740 by John Theodore Heins
  • 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

World premieres

Stage works

Opera

  • Anonymous - Il Bajazette - Title page of the libretto - Bologna 1740

  • Giuseppe Bonno - Il natal di Giove - title page of the libretto _ Vienna 1740

  • Giovanni Battista Casali - Il Bajazette - Title page of the libretto - Rimini 1740

  • Giovanni Colombi - Il Bajazet - Title page of the libretto - Alessandria 1740

  • George Frideric Handel - Imeneo - Title page of the libretto - Dublin 1740

  • Johann Adolph Hasse - Artaserse - Title page of the libretto - Dresden 1740

  • Leonardo Leo - Achille in Sciro - title page of the libretto - Turin 1740

  • Leonardo Leo - Alidoro - title page of the libretto - Naples 1740

  • Luca Antonio Predieri - Zenobia - title page of the libretto - Vienna 1740

  • Wilhelmine von Bayreuth - Argenore - Title page of the libretto in German - Bayreuth 1740

  • Wilhelmine von Bayreuth - Argenore - Title page of the libretto in Italian - Bayreuth 1740

Oratorio

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

flute

musette

  • Esprit Philippe Chédeville - 6 Sonatilles galantes, Op. 6th
  • Nicolas Chédeville - Les Deffis ou l'étude amusante , Op. 9

violin

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

organ

  • Georg Friedrich Händel - A Second Set of Six Concertos ( London )

Vocal music

Spiritually

Worldly

  • Thomas Arne - Cantata Black-Ey'd Susan (text by R. Leveridge; lost)

Popular music

  • James Oswald - A Curious Collection of Scots Tunes

Textbooks

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

Exact date of birth unknown

Born around 1740

Vincent Lübeck
Pietro Ottoboni

Died

Exact date of death unknown

Died around 1740

Died after 1740

  • David Baumann , German organ builder in Brandenburg and Mecklenburg

See also

Portal: Music  - Overview of Wikipedia content on music

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

  1. ↑ Georg Philipp Telemann - Works sorted by genre. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Antonio Vivaldi - Works sorted by date of origin. In: Klassika.info. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .