Music year 1749
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Overview of the music years
Further events
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Events
- January 7th : Johann Adolph Hasse becomes the new Oberkapellmeister in Dresden.
- April 20 : Niccolò Jommelli is appointed by decree maestro coadiutore (vice-music director) of the Cappella Giulia at St. Peter's Basilica , where he is to begin his service on January 1 of the following year.
- April 21 : The public rehearsal for the performance of the fireworks music by George Frideric Handel takes place in the Vauxhall Gardens amusement park in London . The orchestra consists of 57 musicians, consisting of 24 oboes , 12 bassoons , 9 horns , 9 trumpets and 3 pairs of kettledrum . The rehearsal takes place in front of 12,000 spectators, which even clog the London Bridge .
- April 27 : To celebrate the end of the Austrian War of Succession through the Peace of Aachen , the British King George II has a fireworks display in London's Green Park . The fireworks music by Georg Friedrich Handel, which was premiered on the occasion of the event, is received with enthusiasm.
- April 22nd : The Pastorale héroïque Naïs by Jean-Philippe Rameau is premiered in Paris to celebrate the Peace of Aachen ; the libretto was written by Louis de Cahusac .
- The compositions Et incarnatus est and the unfinished Contrapunctus XIV from the Art of Fugue are the last manuscripts by Johann Sebastian Bach , which will be completed by the turn of the year 1749/50 at the latest.
- In Madrid, a handwritten anthology with 41 harpsichord sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti is being created for his pupil, Queen Maria Barbara of Spain (so-called "Volume XV" of the 15-volume sonata collection now in the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice ). The exact time the sonatas were composed is not known.
- Luigi Boccherini received his first music lessons at the Seminario di San Giovanni in Lucca, where he was a student from 1749 to 1753.
Operas and other stage works
- January 27th : The world premiere of the opera Artaserse by Baldassare Galuppi based on the libretto by Pietro Metastasio takes place at the newly opened theater next to the Burg on Michaelerplatz in Vienna.
- February 4th : The world premiere of the first version of the opera Artaserse by Niccolò Jommelli, also based on Pietro Metastasio's libretto, takes place at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
- 23 September : Le carnaval du Parnasse , ballet-héroïque by Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville , premieres in Paris.
- December 5 : World premiere of Rameau's tragédie lyrique Zoroastre , again based on a libretto by de Cahusac, at the Académie royale de musique in Paris (the opera is revised for a new performance in 1756).
- Baldassare Galuppi - L'Arcadia in Brenta , opera buffa
- José de Nebra - El Magico Apolonio
Church music
- February 10 : The oratorio Susanna by George Frideric Handel is premiered at the Theater Royal in Covent Garden in London.
- March 4th : Johann Sebastian Bach conducts his St. John Passion (BWV 245) for the last time with some textual and instrumental changes in the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig. For the first time he used the double bassoon as a continuo instrument.
- March 17th : The oratorio Solomon by George Frideric Handel is premiered at the Theater Royal in Covent Garden , London.
- 1748/49 expanded Johann Sebastian Bach's B minor Mass to Credo , Sanctus and Agnus Dei by isolated new compositions, but mostly by parodying makeovers of existing records from his cantatas . Johann Sebastian Bach will probably finish the final version of his mass in December.
- Around 1749 Joseph Haydn , who is still a choirboy in Vienna, composed his Missa brevis in F major . Haydn probably composed the mass for himself and his brother Michael Haydn , both of whom are soloists in the Boys' Choir.
- With his Magnificat (Wq 215), Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach applies to succeed his seriously ill father Johann Sebastian Bach as Thomaskantor in Leipzig. However, the new Thomaskantor is Johann Gottlob Harrer , the conductor of the Count von Brühl from Dresden.
Popular music
- Charles Wesley - Soldiers of Christ, Arise (Choral)
Born
- February 22nd : Johann Nikolaus Forkel , German organist and music historian († 1818 )
- February 23 : Elisabeth Mara , German opera singer († 1833 )
- March 10 : Lorenzo da Ponte , Italian poet and librettist († 1838 )
- April 11 : Johann Emanuel Samuel Uhlig , German stocking maker and organist († 1822 )
- May 5th : Jean-Frédéric Edelmann , Alsatian harpsichordist and composer, revolutionary († 1794 )
- June 15 : Georg Joseph Vogler , German composer, organist, priest, music teacher and music theorist († 1814 )
- December 17 : Domenico Cimarosa , Italian opera composer († 1801 )
Died
- February 3 : André Cardinal Destouches , French composer (* 1672 )
- February 12 : Valentin Ernst Löscher , German Lutheran theologian and hymn poet (* 1673 )
- May 23 : Joachim Wagner , German organ builder (* 1690 )
- May 26th : Johann Georg Fincke , German organ builder of the Thuringian Baroque (* around 1680 )
- June 11 : Johann Bernhard Bach the Elder , German composer (* 1676 )
- August 7th : Daniel Gottlieb Treu , German violinist and composer (* 1695 )
- October 26 : Louis-Nicolas Clérambault , French composer and violinist (* 1676 )
- November 15 : Johann Christoph Wiegleb , German organ builder (* 1690 )
- November 19 : Carl Heinrich Biber , German violinist and composer (* 1681 )
- November 27th : Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel , German Kapellmeister, composer and music theorist (* 1690 )
- December 19 : Francesco Antonio Bonporti , Italian priest, violinist and composer (* 1672 )
- December 22nd : Johann Balthasar Reimann , German cantor, organist and composer (* 1702 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Johann Ernst Galliard , German oboist, organist and composer (* 1687 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1749 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1749 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ↑ It is chronologically the second volume of the collection, the first was created in 1742. Ralph Kirkpatrick : Domenico Scarlatti (2 vols.), Munich 1972, vol. 2: pp. 85-101