1724 in music

1724 in music

The year 1724 in music involved some significant events.

Events

*Johann Sebastian Bach begins his "Mass in B minor".
*John Frederick Lampe arrives in Britain.
*Joseph Bodin de Boismortier moves to Paris from Perpignan.
*Agostino Steffani is elected honorary president of the Academy of Antient Musick in London.
*Johann Adolph Hasse arrives in Naples.
*The "Le Saraste" violin is made by Antonio Stradivari (now owned by the Real Concervatorio Superior de Música in Madrid, Spain).
*In Rome, Domenico Scarlatti meets Farinelli and Johann Joachim Quantz.
*Marriage of the daughter of music publisher, Jean-Baptiste Christophe Ballard and printer François Boivin.
*Sébastien de Brossard's collection of manuscripts is bought by King Louis XV of France.

Classical music

*Johann Sebastian Bach
**"St John's Passion" (first performance at St. Nicolaikirche in Leipzig)
**"Cantata No. 38"
*Joseph Bodin de Boismortier - "Les Quatre Saisons" (cantata)
*François Couperin - "L'Apothéose de Corelli"
*William Croft - "Musica sacra"
*Benedetto Marcello - "Estro Poetrico Armonico, vol. 1"
*Turlough O'Carolan - "John Drury" (composed for the wedding of a local couple, John Drury and Elizabeth Goldsmith)
*Jean-Philippe Rameau - "Pieces de Clavessin"

Opera

The following operas were composed:
*George Frideric Handel - "Giulio Cesare" ("Julius Caesar"); "Tamerlano" ("Tamburlaine"), both first performed in London
*Leonardo Vinci - "Turno Aricino"
*Antonio Vivaldi - "Il Giustino"

Births

*February 26 - Gottfried Heinrich Bach, mentally-handicapped son of Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1763)
*August 29 - Giovanni Battista Casti, opera librettist (d. 1803)
*December 1 - Dismas Hatas, composer

Deaths

*June 24 - Johann Theile, singer and composer (b. 1646)
*"probable" - Antonio Quintavalle, opera composer


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