Music year 1743

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Music year 1743
House three swans Leipzig 1870

The first "Big Concerts" of the Leipzig Concerts take place in the former Gasthof Zu den drey Schwanen am Brühl (left). The Gewandhaus Orchestra later developed from this musical society.

Events

Johann Sebastian Bach

  • Illustration of the organ by Johann Scheibe in the Johanniskirche in Leipzig
    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.
  • Bach has an excellent reputation as an organ expert. He is called in for numerous new and reconstructed organs: for example in Leipzig in 1743 to appraise the organ by Johann Scheibe in the Johanniskirche Leipzig .

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 .
  • From 1743 to 1752 Handel composed a continuous series of one or two new oratorios per season, most of them on themes from the Old Testament.
  • February 18 : The three-act oratorio Samson by George Frideric Handel is premiered at the Covent Garden Theater in London. The organ concerto played as inter-act music is probably the concerto in A major (HWV 307) that had just been completed. Kitty Clive , the actress and singer of the Theater Royal Drury Lane , who was extremely popular at the time , played the role of Dalila in this oratorio as a separate performance on the London stage, thereby increasing the success of both artists. The libretto is by Newburgh Hamilton, based on the tragedy Samson Agonistes by John Milton in 1671 .
  • March 19 : The first London performance of the Messiah takes place at the Covent Garden Theater . The oratorio is announced as A New Sacred Oratorio, without mentioning the title Messiah .
  • November 27 : World premiere of Handel's Dettinger Te Deum with the Dettingen Anthem in the Royal Chapel of St. James's Palace in London. Georg Friedrich Handel composed the choral work to celebrate the victory of the Austro-British military over the French troops in the battle of Dettingen . The work contains themes from the composer Francesco Antonio Urio .
Louis-Michel van Loo : The Royal Family of Spain (1743), in the background on the gallery some court musicians, second lady from left (in blue): Maria Bárbara, standing next to her: her husband Fernando, sitting next to it: King Philip V (second Lord from left), in the middle (next to the crown): Queen Elisabetta Farnese

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.
  • Scarlatti has been married to his second wife, Anastasia Ximénez, from Cádiz at the latest since 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

Foundations

  • March 11th : The first concert of the Leipzig Concert takes place in Leipzig. The 16 musicians, who include Stadtpfeifer , are financed by 16 Leipzig merchants. From this musical society the Gewandhausorchester developed later , the oldest non- courtly concert orchestra in the German-speaking area that has outgrown the bourgeoisie .

World premieres

Stage works

ballet
Opera
Serenata

  • Johann Adolph Hasse - L'asilo d'Amore - Title page of the German libretto - Hubertusburg 1743

  • Johann Adolph Hasse - L'asilo d'Amore - Title page of the Italian libretto - Hubertusburg 1743

  • Gennaro Manna - Siroe - Title page of the libretto - Venice 1743

  • Giovanni Verocai - Hissifile - Title page of the libretto - Braunschweig 1743

Oratorio
  • February 18 : The three-act oratorio Samson by George Frideric Handel is premiered at the Covent Garden Theater in London.
  • Francesco Feo - La Ruth (libretto by Giuseppe Lupis; world premiere in Rome)
  • Niccolò Jommelli - La Betulia liberata (libretto by Pietro Metastasio; world premiere in Venice)

Instrumental music

Chamber music

flute

violin

Keyboard music

harpsichord

organ

  • Georg Friedrich Handel - Organ Concerto No. 8 (HWV 307)
  • Valentin Rathgeber - Pastorels for the Christmas season (R 322)

Vocal music

Spiritually

Worldly

  • Friedrich Graefe - Collection of various and selected odes (1737–1743)
  • James Oswald - Colin's Kisses
The Silbermann organ in the Burgk Castle Chapel

Instrument making

Born

Exact date of birth unknown

Giuseppe Ottavio Pittoni
Monument to the violin maker Matthias Klotz in Mittenwald

Died

Exact date of death unknown

See also

Portal: Music  - Overview of Wikipedia content on music

Web links

Commons : Opera Libretti 1743  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files