Music year 1751
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Overview of the music years
Further events
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Events
- The Art of Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach probably appeared for the first time post mortem as Die / Kunst der Fuge / by / Johann Sebastian Bach / former Capellmeister and Music Director in Leipzig
- Georg Friedrich Handel composes his last oratorio Jephtha (HWV 70) based on a text by Thomas Morell . Handel has to interrupt the work several times because of great difficulties with his eyes - he is going blind in one eye and writes in the score: "Bit here, February 13th, 1751 was prevented because of relaxation of the face of my left eye". Nevertheless, he manages to finish the composition.
- Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello took over the management of court and opera music in Stuttgart.
- Ferdinand Zellbell (the younger) succeeds his father Ferdinand Zellbell (the elder) as Hofkapellmeister in Stockholm
Operas and other stage works
- January 30th : The Dramma giocoso per musica Le donne vendicate by Gioacchino Cocchi was performed at the Teatro San Cassiano in Venice . The libretto was by Carlo Goldoni .
- February 9 : The Teatro Argentina in Rome was the dramma per Musica Ifigenia in Aulis by Niccolò Jommelli premiered.
- May 30th : The opera Tito Manlio by Girolamo Abos was premiered in Naples .
- October 9 : Niccolo Jommelli's Dramma per Musica Ipermestra was premiered at the Nuovo Teatro in Spoleto .
- November 1st : The intermezzo La ricamatrice divenuta dama by Johann Friedrich Agricola was premiered in Potsdam .
- December 26th : The Dramma per Musica Artaserse Giovanni Pescetti based on the libretto by Pietro Metastasio was premiered at the Teatro Regio Ducale in Milan.
- December 28 : Niccolo Jommelli's Dramma per Musica Talestri was premiered at the Teatro delle Dame in Rome
- The libretto La Didone abbandonata was set to music several times. The version by Ignazio Fiorillo was premiered in Braunschweig, Gennaro Manna's version at the Teatro S. Giovanni Crisostomo in Venice, and Davide Perez 's version in Genoa .
- In Genoa the operas Adriano in Siria , La gloria e il piacere, Il giuoco dei matti and Ifigenia were performed by Andrea Adolfati .
- The premiere of the opera Eudossa incoronata by Francesco Araja took place in Saint Petersburg
- The opera Il re pastore by Giuseppe Bonno was premiered in the garden theater of Schönbrunn Palace . It was the first setting of the libretto of the same name by Pietro Metastasio .
- The opera Ciro riconosciuto by Johann Adolph Hasse, based on a libretto by Pietro Metastasio, was premiered in Dresden .
- Niccoló Jommelli's dramma per musica Cesare in Egitto was premiered in Strasbourg .
- La vilana nobile by Niccolo Jommelli was premiered in Palermo .
- The Dramma per musica Alessandro sotto le tende di Dario by Giovanni Battista Lampugnani was premiered in Piacenza .
- A finta frascatana and Amore figlio del piacere by Nicola Bonifacio Logroscino were premiered in Naples .
- The opera seria Semiramide riconosciuta by Giuseppe de Majo was premiered.
- By Jean-Philippe Rameau were in Paris Tragédie-lyrique Linus , the Pastorale héroïques Acanthe et Céphise and the one-act (acte de ballet) La Guirlande premiered.
- The Dramma giocoso Gli impostori by Rinaldo di Capua was premiered at the Teatro Ducale in Modena .
- The opera Il vecchio avaro by Giuseppe Scolari will be premiered in Barcelona .
- The opera Constantinus by Josef Antonín Sehling premiered.
- The opera Il Farnace after Tommaso Traetta is premiered in Naples .
Oratorio
- March 1 : The oratorio The Choice of Hercules by George Frideric Handel was premiered at the Theater Royal, Covent Garden, London .
Vocal music
- Thomas Arne - Vocal Melody, vol. III
- William Hayes - Where shall the Muse , Ode
- John Stanley - Six Cantatas Opus 8 and Three cantatas Opus 9
Instrumental music
- May 30th : At the Concert spirituel , a symphony by Charles-Henri de Blainville , in the mode mixte he had invented , was premiered.
- Charles Avison - 6 Concerti grossi op.2
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Harpsichord Concerto in B flat major, Wq 28
- Johann Daniel Berlin - Musical Divertissement Sonatine for Harpsichord, published in Augsburg
- Louis de Caix d'Hervelois - VIe Livre de pièces pour un pardessus de viole à 5 cordes et 6 cordes avec la basse, contenant 3 suites qui peuvent se jouer sur la flûte .
- Antoine Dauvergne - Concerts de symphonies op.3 and op.4
- André-Joseph Exaudet - 6 trio sonatas for 2 violins and bc
- Antoine Mahaut - 6 symphony a quadro, published in Augsburg
- François Martin - Six Symphonies et Ouvertures op.4 , published in Paris
Textbooks
- Francesco Geminiani : The Art of Playing on the Violin ("The Art of Playing the Violin ") op. 9, a first didactic publication of its kind
- William Hayes : The Art of Composing Music by a Method Entirely New
- Jacob Wilhelm Lustig : Inleiding dead de Muzykkunde
Born
Date of birth saved
- January 18 : Ferdinand Kauer , Austrian composer and conductor († 1831 )
- March 5 : Jan Křtitel Kuchař , Czech composer and organist († 1829 )
- March 9 : María Antonia Vallejo , Spanish actress and singer († 1787 )
- April 3 : Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne , French composer († 1796 )
- August 2nd : August Christian Andreas Abel , German violinist and court musician († 1834 )
- September 1 : Emanuel Schikaneder , German actor, singer, director, poet and theater director († 1812 )
- September 10 : Bartolomeo Campagnoli , Italian violinist, composer and conductor († 1827 )
- September 16 : Johann Joseph Kausch , Silesian doctor and writer († 1825 )
- December 19 : Giuseppe Giordani , Italian composer († 1794 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Dmitri Stepanowitsch Bortnjanski , Ukrainian-Russian composer († 1825 )
- John Crosdill , English composer, cellist and violist († 1825 )
- Joseph Meunier d'Haudimont , French composer and conductor († after 1789)
- Blas de Laserna Nieva , Spanish composer († 1821 )
- Jan Josef Praupner , Czech composer († 1818 )
- William Smethergell , English composer († before March 1836)
Born around 1751
- Isidore Bertheaume , French violinist and composer († 1802 )
Died
Date of death secured
- January 17th : Tomaso Albinoni , Italian composer and violinist (* 1671 )
- February 10 : Quirin Weber , German organ builder (* 1693 )
- February 18 : Giuseppe Matteo Alberti , Italian composer and violinist (* 1685 )
- February 25 : Georg Caspar Schürmann , German composer (* 1672/73)
- May 2 : Maria Maddalena Musi , Italian opera singer (* 1669 )
- May 14 : Henry Theodore Reinhold , German opera singer (* around 1690)
- May 20 : Domènech Terradellas , opera composer of Spanish origin (* 1711 )
- July 25 : Johann Friedrich Lampe , German-British composer (* 1703 )
- July 31 : Benigna Marie Reuss zu Ebersdorf , German hymn poet (* 1695 )
- August 25 : Christian Friedrich Rolle , German organist and composer (* 1681 )
- October 2 : Pierre du Mage , French organist and composer (* 1674 )
- December 7th : Heinrich Bokemeyer , theologian, poet, composer (* 1679 )
- December 26 : Girolamo Nicolò Laurenti , Italian violinist and composer (* 1678 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Jean Baptiste Cappus , French composer (* before 1700)
- Eilert Köhler , German organ builder (* around 1710)
- Giovanni Reali , Italian violinist, composer and conductor (* 1681 )
Died around 1751
- Ferdinando Galimberti , Italian composer, violinist and music teacher (* around 1700)
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1751 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1751 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walher Siegmund-Schultze: Georg Friedrich Händel , VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig, 1980, pp. 71 & 136