Music year 1747

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Music year 1747
On October 4th, the Schönbrunn Palace Theater will open after a two-year construction period.

Events

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 director of the Collegium musicum founded in 1701 by Georg Philipp Telemann .

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.

May: Johann Sebastian Bach visits Potsdam and Berlin at the invitation of Frederick the Great , in whose court orchestra Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach is employed as a harpsichordist , and plays the pianoforti and organs there. He improvised on a given topic by the King and published the Musical Offering , a collection of two joints, ten canons and a trio sonata on this subject, which he from 7. May bis 7. July has composed.

Beginning of the six-part Ricercar from the Musical Offering (Bach's autograph)

A few canonical changes to the Weynacht-Lied: From Heaven Up I Come Here is the title of a work of variations that Bachsubmitted when he joined the Corresponding Society of Musical Sciences foundedby Lorenz Christoph Mizler .

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. Aristocratic circles are still trying to bring Handel down for some time. “The entire opera company is in a rage over Handel,” notes a contemporary . In contrast to the times of aristocratic opera, he has no competition as an oratorio composer, but his opponents organize balls and banquets in the evenings of his performances to harm him.
April 1 : The oratorio Judas Maccabaeus by George Frideric Handel has its world premiere at the Theater Royal in Covent Garden . The libretto is by Thomas Morell .

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

Anna Philippina Bach (1747–1804), the daughter of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and his wife Johanna Maria Bach, b. Dannemann, is born.

Niccolò Jommelli , who had held the position of director of the Ospedale degli Incurabili in Venice from 1745 through Johann Adolf Hasse , turned to other tasks.

The first work by Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini was the shepherd's cantata Il ristoro d'Arcadia in 1747 at the Teatro Ducale, the predecessor of La Scala in Milan .

Nicola Antonio Porpora , choirmaster at the Conservatorio dell'Ospedaletto in Venice since 1744 , completes this task.

Openings

October 4th : The Schönbrunn Palace Theater opens. Empress Maria Theresia had the richly furnished imperial court theater built from 1745 by Nikolaus Pacassi in the wing bordering on the right of Schönbrunn Palace as one of the first palace theaters in Europe. 20 years later it is rebuilt and enlarged by Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg . The palace theater initially served as the home stage of the Habsburgs . Here are Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart conducting their works and various operas of Christoph Willibald Gluck be performed here.

World premieres

Stage works

Opera

Around January 15 : The libretto for the dramma per musica L'olimpiade by Pietro Metastasio , set by Giuseppe Scolari, premieres at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice .
January 20th : Arianna e Teseo , an opera by Giuseppe de Majo based on the libretto by Pietro Pariati , premieres at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples .
Jan. 28 : At the Teatro Argentina in Rome which takes place premiere of the opera Didone abbandonata (The Abandoned Dido) by Niccolò Jommelli on the libretto by Pietro Metastasio .
30 May : The second version of Dramma per musica Eumene by Niccolò Jommelli based on the libretto by Apostolo Zeno is premiered in Naples at the Teatro San Carlo.
June 14th : The opera La Spartana generosa by Johann Adolf Hasse based on the libretto by Giovanni Claudio Pasquini is performed for the first time in the Hofoper in Dresden .
July 12 : The Serenata Perché da l'alta reggia by Niccolò Jommelli based on a libretto by Flaminio Scarselli premieres in Rome at the Teatro Argentina.
July 18 : The opera Filandro by Nicola Antonio Porpora based on the libretto by Vincenzo Cassani is premiered at the Hofoper in Dresden.
September 28 : The Pastorale Daphnis et Chloé by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier based on the libretto by Pierre Laujon is premiered in Paris at the Académie royale de musique .
October 5th : World premiere of the opera Achille in Sciro by Giovanni Battista Runcher on a libretto by Pietro Metastasio at the Teatro San Samuele in Venice.
October 7th : The opera Leucippo by Johann Adolf Hasse based on the libretto by Giovanni Claudio Pasquini is premiered in the Hoftheater Hubertusburg .
Nicola Calandra - Lo Barone Landolfo
Geronimo Cordella - La Faustina
Giuseppe de Majo - Il sogno d'Olimpia (Serenata; libretto by Ranieri de 'Calzabigi after Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto ; world premiere in Naples)
Jean-Philippe Rameau - Les Fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour , (First performance in Versailles )
Giovanni Verocai - Temistocle (libretto by Pietro Metastasio ; world premiere at the winter mass at the Hoftheater in Braunschweig )

Anonymous - Lucius Verus - title page of the libretto - Augsburg 1747
Giovanni Battista Runcher - Achille in Sciro - Title Page of the Libretto - Venice 1747
Giuseppe Scolari - L´Olimpiade - Title page of the libretto - Venice 1747
Giuseppe Scolari - L´Olimpiade - Picture from the libretto - Venice 1747
Giovanni Verocai - Temistocle - Title page of the libretto - Braunschweig 1747

Oratorio

April 1 : The oratorio Judas Maccabaeus by George Frideric Handel has its world premiere at the Theater Royal in Covent Garden . The libretto is by Thomas Morell .

Instrumental music

Of the large number of fortepiano that Gottfried Silbermann made, only three have survived. One is in the New Palace in Potsdam (Freiberg, 1747)

Concerts

Giuseppe Sammartini - 6 Concerti Grossi, Op. 5

Chamber music

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Trio Sonata in F major (H.576)
William Boyce - 12 Trio Sonatas

Viol

Antoine Forqueray - Pieces de viole mises en pièces de clavecin

violin

Willem de Fesch - 30 Duetti for 2 violins or flutes, Op. 11 (London; self-published in 1744 as The Musical Amusements )
Jean-Marie Leclair - Second livre de sonates à deux violons sans basse , Op. 12
Giuseppe Tartini - L'arte del arco

Keyboard music

harpsichord

Johann Sebastian Bach - Musical Sacrifice (BWV 1079)
Jean-Philippe Rameau - La Dauphine

organ

Johann Sebastian Bach - Some canonical changes to the Weynacht-Lied: From heaven high there I come (BWV 769)

Vocal music

Worldly

Maria Teresa Agnesi - Il restauro d'Arcadia

Textbooks

Johann Mattheson - Claim of Heavenly Music (Hamburg)

Instrument making

The organ of Bettenhausen was 1,747 of Johann Ernst Döring originally Unterweid built

Organ in the Protestant church in Balbronn, completed in 1747

Organ in St. Nikolaus Church in Haguenau, completed in 1747

Organ in the church of Saint-Cannat, completed in 1747

Organ completed in 1747 in the Saint-Jean-Baptiste church in Saint-Jean-Saverne

Organ by Adriano Fedeli completed in 1747

Born

Date of birth saved

February 17th : Narcís Casanoves i Bertran , Catalan composer, organist and Benedictine monk († 1799 )
March 29 : Johann Wilhelm Häßler , German composer and organist († 1822 )
March 31 : Johann Abraham Peter Schulz , German musician and composer († 1800 )
June 26 : Leopold Koželuh , Bohemian composer and music teacher († 1818 )
September 29 : Józef Wybicki , Kashubian-Polish politician and writer († 1822 )
October 11th (baptized): Marian Paradeiser , Lower Austrian composer and Benedictine († 1775 )
November 24th : Felice Alessandri , Italian harpsichordist and opera composer († 1798 )
November 28 : Franz Andreas Holly , Bohemian composer († 1783 )
November 29th (baptized): Giovanni Giornovichi , Italian violin virtuoso and composer († 1804 )
December 18 : Johann Christoph Schröther the Elder , German organ builder († 1822 )

Exact date of birth unknown

James Cervetto , British cellist and composer († 1837 )
Ivan Chandoschkin , Russian composer († 1804 )
Michael Ehregott Grose , German and Danish organist and composer as well as music teacher († 1795 )
Raynor Taylor , English composer, organist and music teacher († 1825 )
François Tourte , French bow maker († 1835 )

Died

Giovanni Battista Bononcini
Alessandro Marcello
Jean-Ferry Rebel
Johann Gotthilf Ziegler

Date of death secured

January 2 : Jean-Féry Rebel , French violinist and composer (* 1666 )
January 18 : Antonio de Literes , Spanish composer and cellist (* 1673 )
February 26 : Johann Nicolaus Mempel , German cantor and author of a copy of numerous works by Johann Sebastian Bachs (* 1713 )

June 6th : Jean-Baptiste Barrière , French cellist and composer (* 1707 )
June 19 : Alessandro Marcello , Italian poet, composer and philosopher (* 1673 )
July 9 : Giovanni Battista Bononcini , Italian cellist and composer (* 1670 )
August 24th : Johann Georg Schröter , German organ builder (* 1683 )

September 13th : Johann Christoph Egedacher , Salzburg organ builder (* 1666 )
September 15 : Johann Gotthilf Ziegler , German composer and organist (* 1688 )

October 21 : François Campion , French theorbist, composer and music theorist (* 1686 )
December 26th : Christian Löber , German Protestant clergyman and hymn poet (* 1683 )

Exact date of death unknown

David Tecchler , German master violin maker (* 1666 )
Francesc Valls , Spanish composer and conductor (* 1665 / 1671 )

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