Music year 1742

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Music year 1742
Berlin Opera House
On December 7, 1742, the Royal Court Opera in Berlin, built according to plans by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff in the style of Palladianism, today's State Opera Unter den Linden, opens with the world premiere of the opera Cleopatra e Cesare by Carl Heinrich Graun.

Events

Johann Sebastian Bach

Fugue in A flat major from Part 2 of the Well-Tempered Clavier in the London autograph
  • Johann Sebastian Bach becomes a father for the twentieth and last time. The thirteenth child together with his second wife Anna Magdalena Bach , Regina Susanna (1742–1809), is born.
  • 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 30th : The secular cantata Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet by Johann Sebastian Bach is premiered in Leipzig on the 36th birthday of Count von Dieskau. The text comes from Christian Friedrich Henrici .
  • Christmas: Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas cantata Gloria in excelsis Deo is premiered in Leipzig.
  • Bach completed the first fair copy of his important late contrapuntal work, Kunst der Fuge , which he subsequently expanded and revised extensively by 1749. The collection of simple joints, counter joints, mirror joints, joints with several themes and canons represents a compendium of the techniques of joint composition.
  • 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.
  • Bach has an excellent reputation as an organ expert. He is called in for numerous new and reconstructed organs: for example in Bad Berka in 1742 to appraise the organ by Heinrich Nicolaus Trebs in the church of St. Marien .

georg Friedrich Handel

Excerpt from Worthy is the Lamb , the last choir from the oratorio Messiah by Georg Friedrich Händel (autograph)
  • 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 .
  • April 13th : George Frideric Handel is in Dublin and premieres his oratorio Messiah (HWV 56) from the previous year in the New Music Hall for the benefit of prisoners in charge and hospitals for the poor. The alto part will be sung by Susanna Maria Cibber (1714–1766), a sister of the composer Thomas Augustin Arne , who soon after became the first actress in the theater of the famous Shakespeare actor David Garrick in London . The conductor is Matthew Dubourg . The oratorio is enthusiastically received at its first performance. Handel then returned to London, where establishing the work was much more difficult. In London, too, Handel will leave the proceeds of his Messiah performances to the poor and disenfranchised. Once a year he will perform the oratorio Messiah for the benefit of the London Foundling Hospital , of which he is honorary co-director alongside William Hogarth .
  • Shortly before his return to London, Handel meets the mentally confused author of Gulliver's Travels , Jonathan Swift .

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.

Other biographical events

Openings

World premieres

Stage works

Opera
Serenata
  • February 13th : The Serenata Endimione by Andrea Bernasconi based on the libretto by Pietro Metastasio is premiered at the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo in Venice.
  • JulI: The Serenata L'asilo d'Amore by Johann Adolph Hasse based on the libretto by Pietro Metastasio is premiered in Naples.

    • Andrea Bernasconi - Bajazet - Title page of the libretto - Venice 1742

    • Michele Fini - Tito Manlio - Title Page of the Libretto - Florence 1742

    • Gaetano Latilla - Zenobia - Title page of the libretto - Turin 1742

    • Davide Perez - La passione - Title page of the libretto - Palermo 1742

    • Paolo Scalabrini - Il Giuseppe riconosciuto - Title page of the libretto - Venice 1742

    • Giovanni Verocai - Zenobia and Radamistus - title page of the libretto - Braunschweig 1742

    Oratorio

    Instrumental music

    Concerts

    Chamber music

    Chalumeau

    flute

    violin

    Keyboard music

    harpsichord

    Johann Valentin Görner - Collection of New Odes and Songs - Cover of the collection
    • Giovanni Benedetto Platti
      • 6 Sonates pour le clavessin sur le goût Italy , Op. 1 (Nuremberg)
      • 6 Concerti de quali si espone presentemente due, per clavicembalo obligato con due violini, viola e violoncello, Op. 2 (Nuremberg, lost)

    organ

    Vocal music

    Spiritually

    Worldly

    Textbooks

    Instrument making

    • Church in Zöblitz, Silbermann organ, balustrade with serpentine elements

    • Organ by Gottfried Silbermann in Fraureuth, Saxony, Germany

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    See also

    Portal: Music  - Overview of Wikipedia content on music

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