Music year 1741
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Overview of the music years
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Events
Johann Sebastian Bach
- Johann Sebastian Bach has been the Thomaskantor and musical director of the Thomaskirche in Leipzig since May 30, 1723 . From 1729 to 1741, perhaps even until 1746, he was also the director of the Collegium musicum founded in 1701 by Georg Philipp Telemann . 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.
- The publisher Balthasar Schmid publishes the work Clavier Ubung consisting of an ARIA with various changes in front of the clavicimbal with 2 manuals by Johann Sebastian Bach for the first time in Nuremberg . After Bach's death, the piece became known as the Goldberg Variations .
Handel 1741, portrait by Thomas Hudson
- November: Johann Sebastian Bach travels to Dresden , probably to present Count Hermann von Keyserlingk with the Goldberg Variations, which were printed in autumn.
- 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 .
- January 10 : Deidamia , George Frideric Handel's last opera , premieres at the Theater Royal, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. The libretto is by Paolo Antonio Rolli .
- August 22nd to September 14th : Georg Friedrich Händel composes the oratorio Messiah . The libretto is by Charles Jennens .
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.
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.
- Vivaldi died ten months after his arrival in Vienna and was buried on July 28, 1741 in a simple grave on the Spitaller Gottsacker in front of the Kärntnertor, where the main building of the Vienna University of Technology ( Karlsplatz ) is today. There is a memorial plaque for him there.
Other biographical events
Johann Leopold van Ghelen publishes a German translation of the opera libretto Didone abbandonata by Pietro Metastasio in Steyr .
- Johann Friedrich Agricola , who began studying law at the University of Leipzig at the age of 18 in 1738 and took piano, organ and composition lessons with Johann Sebastian Bach until 1741, went to Berlin after completing his training, where he made contact with Johann Joachim Quantz , the court composer of Frederick II , and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , the chamber harpsichordist of the king.
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was given a permanent position as a concert harpsichordist in the court orchestra of Crown Prince Friedrich, who had been crowned King of Prussia the year before . Bach was one of the most famous “piano players” in Europe at the time. For the harpsichord - his favorite instrument - he will write around 150 sonatas and over 50 concertante pieces.
- 19-year-old Georg Anton Benda becomes second violinist at the Berlin court of King Friedrich II of Prussia.
- Giovanni Battista Bononcini , who had lost a lot of money in dubious speculations in 1737 and had to earn his living as a copyist for a while , received a pension from Empress Maria Theresa from 1741 . His last known composition is the Te Deum commissioned by the Empress .
- Christoph Willibald Gluck made his first documented appearance as a composer on December 26th at the age of 27 at the world premiere of his opera Artaserse in Milan.
- Niccolò Jommelli is probably the first opera composer to have two full-length works premiered on the same day: Merope in Venice and Semiramide riconosciuta in Turin, both on December 26, 1741 at the start of the carnival season. He is also accepted as a member of the renowned Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna .
Openings
- March 14 : In Vienna, Archduchess Maria Theresia allows the use of an empty ballroom on Michaelerplatz next to the Hofburg as a theater, from which the Burgtheater is created.
- May 27 : In Vienna, a band accompanies a military parade for the first time .
World premieres
Stage works
Opera
- January 10 : Deidamia (HWV 42), Georg Friedrich Handel's last opera, is premiered in London. The libretto is by Paolo Antonio Rolli.
- January 28th : The opera Didone abbandonata by Andrea Bernasconi based on the libretto by Pietro Metastasio is premiered at the Teatro San Giovanni Crisostomo in Venice . Another setting of Rinaldo di Capua's libretto will be premiered this year at the Teatro Condes in Lisbon .
- February 11 : The opera Adelia by Gaetano Donizetti based on a libretto by Felice Romani and Girolamo Maria Marini is premiered at the Teatro Apollo in Rome.
- Carnival: The opera Artamene by Tomaso Albinoni based on the libretto by Bartolomeo Vitturi will be premiered at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice . It is his last opera after Candalide (1734).
- Carnival: The libretto Demofoonte by Pietro Metastasio is premiered in the Teatro Pubblico in Lucca in the setting by Leonardo Vinci , in the Teatro delle Dame in Rome in the setting by Andrea Bernasconi . Another setting this year by Giovanni Verocai will be premiered in the Hoftheater in Braunschweig.
- April 29th : The world premiere of the opera Ezio by Niccolò Jommelli with the libretto by Pietro Metastasio takes place in Bologna .
- October 7th : World premiere of the opera Numa Pompilio by Johann Adolph Hasse on a libretto by Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino in the Hoftheater von Hubertusburg .
- December 12 : The opera Penelope by Baldassare Galuppi based on the libretto by Paolo Antonio Rolli is premiered at the King's Theater in London .
- December 13 : The opera Rodelinda regina de 'Longobardi (GraunWV B: I: 6) by Karl Heinrich Graun based on the libretto by Giovanni Gualberto Bottarelli is performed for the first time.
- December 26 : Two operas by Niccolò Jommelli are premiered at the same time at the start of the carnival season: Merope at the Teatro San Giovanni Crisostomo in Venice and Semiramide riconosciuta in Turin .
- December 26th : The opera Artaserse by Christoph Willibald Gluck based on a libretto by Pietro Metastasio is premiered in Milan (only two arias survived).
Andrea Bernasconi - Didone abbandonata - Title page of the libretto - Venice 1741
Gaetano Donizetti - Adelia - Title page of the libretto - Rome 1741
George Frideric Handel - Deidamia - Title page of the libretto - London 1741
Johann Adolph Hasse - Il Giuseppe riconosciuto - Title page of the libretto - Dresden 1741
Oratorio
- March 31 : The Azione sacra in two parts Giuseppe riconosciuto by Johann Adolph Hasse based on a libretto by Pietro Metastasio is premiered in the court chapel in Dresden .
- Francesco Feo - Tobias
Instrumental music
Concerts
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Symphony in G major (H.648)
- Willem de Fesch - 8 Concertos, Op. 10
- Francesco Geminiani - 6 Concerti, Op. 6 (London)
Chamber music
- Christoph Graupner - Trio Sonata in E major (GWV 208)
flute
- Joseph Bodin de Boismortier - 6 Sonates pour clavecin et une flûte traversière , Op. 91 (Paris)
- Christoph Graupner - Flute Sonata in G major (GWV 708)
- Johann Adolph Hasse - 12 Flute Concertos, Op. 3
clarinet
- Georg Friedrich Handel - Overture in D major (HWV 424)
Maybe
- Jean-Baptiste Dupuits - 6 Sonatas for vielle and harpsichord, Op. 3
Keyboard music
harpsichord
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Harpsichord Concerto in A major (H.411)
- Johann Sebastian Bach - Goldberg Variations (BWV 988), published under the title Clavier Ubung consisting of an ARIA with various changes in front of the clavicimbal with 2 manuals
- Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg - Pièces de Clavecin
- Jean-Philippe Rameau - Pièces de clavecin en concert, avec un violon ou une flute, ...
organ
- Michel Corrette - Nouveau Livre de noëls
- Various Composers - Cocquiel Manuscript (B-Br Ms II 3326 Mus)
Vocal music
Spiritually
- Girolamo Subscriptions - Magnificat à quarto concertato con strum
- Giovanni Battista Bononcini - Te Deum in C minor
- Baldassare Galuppi - Confitebor tibi Domine in C major (B.II.2)
Worldly
- George Frideric Handel - Quel fior che all'alba ride (HWV 192)
- Georg Philipp Telemann - 24 Odes (TWV 25: 86-109)
Textbooks
- Michel Corrette - Méthode pour apprendre le violoncelle , Op. 24
- Antoine Terrasson - Historique sur la vielle
- Carlo Tessarini - Gramatica di musica. Insegna il modo facile e breve per bene impre di sonare il violino (Rome)
Instrument making
- From around 1741 Gottfried Silbermann built fortepianos with improved technology, several of which were acquired by Prussia's King Frederick the Great . also
- He is building the organ in the church of St. John in Zittau finished
- he completes the construction of the organ in the village church in Großhartmannsdorf .
Born
- February 8 : André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry , Flemish-French composer († 1813 )
- February 9 : Henri-Joseph Rigel , German composer († 1799 )
- February 19 : Johann Gottlieb Stephanie , Austrian actor, playwright and opera librettist († 1800 )
- February 26th : Johann Nepomuk Holzhey , south German organ builder († 1809 )
- March 25th : Daniel Schiebeler , German writer and hymn poet († 1771 )
- March 28 : Johann André , German musician, composer and music publisher († 1799 )
- April 17 : Johann Gottlieb Naumann , German composer, conductor and Kapellmeister († 1801 )
- May 23 : Andrea Lucchesi , Italian composer, organist and conductor († 1801 )
- July 2 : Susanna Jacobina Jungert , German soprano († 1799 )
- August 31 : Jean-Paul-Égide Martini , German-French composer († 1816 )
- September 25 : Václav Pichl , Czech violinist, composer and music director († 1805 )
- November 27 : Jean-Pierre Duport , French cellist and composer († 1818 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Nidhu Babu , Indian composer and poet († 1839 )
- Carlo Canobbio , Italian composer and violinist († 1822 )
- Franz Xaver Hammer , German gambist, cellist and composer († 1817 )
- Friedrich Pischelberger , Viennese double bass player († 1813 )
Born around 1741
- Franz Kiršnik , Bohemian organist and organ builder († after 1802 )
Died
- January 6th : Ann Turner Robinson , English soprano
- February 13 : Johann Joseph Fux , Austrian composer and music theorist (* 1660 )
- March 16 : Jean-Baptiste Rousseau , French author and librettist (* 1671 )
- April 7th : Georg Sigismund Caspari , German organ builder (* 1693 )
- May 19 : Valentin Ulrich Grotian , East Frisian organ builder (* 1663 )
- June 22nd : Joseph-Hector Fiocco , violinist and composer from the Habsburg Netherlands (* 1703 )
- June 23 : Johann Leopold Burkhardt , German organ builder (* 1673 )
- July 28th : Antonio Vivaldi , Venetian composer (* 1678 )
- after September 2 : Carlo Francesco Cesarini , Italian composer and violinist (* around 1666 )
- September 7th : Henry Desmarest , French composer (* 1661 )
- October 9 : Domenico Lalli , Neapolitan librettist (* 1679 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Johann Christian Credius , German composer and organist (* 1681 )
- Françoise Prévost , French prima ballerina (* around 1680 )
Died around 1741
- Francesco Scarlatti , Italian violinist and composer (* 1666 )
Died after 1741
- Justus Andreas Meyfeld , German piece and bell founder (* before 1730 )
See also
Web links
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