1729 in music

1729 in music

The year 1729 in music involved some significant events.

Events

*George Frideric Handel becomes co-manager of the King's Theatre, London.
*Pietro Locatelli settles in Amsterdam, where he will spend the rest of his life.

Classical music

*Joseph Bodin de Boismortier - Concerto for cello, viol or bassoon
*Antonio Caldara - "Vicino a un rivoletto"
*Michel Richard Delalande - "Motets de feu De La Lande" (Motets of the late De La Lande), a collection of "grand motets"
*Jean-Joseph Mouret - "Symphony de Fanfare"
*Antonio Vivaldi - Op. 12, a collection of violin concerti, published in Amsterdam

Opera

*Tomaso Albinoni - "La fortezza al cimento"
*Giovanni Battista Costanzi - "Carlo Magno"
*John Gay - "The Beggar's Opera"
*Giovanni Battista Mancini - "Endimione"

Births

*February 16 - Gaetano Guadagni, "castrato" singer (died 1792)
*October 1 - Anton Adlgasser, composer (died 1777)
*October 17 - Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, composer (died 1817)
*November - Giuseppe Sarti, opera composer (died 1802)
*December 3 - Antonio Soler, composer (died 1783)

Deaths

*July 16 - Johann David Heinichen, composer (born 1683)
*July 31 - Nicola Francesco Haym, opera librettist and composer (born 1678)
*"date unknown" - Attilio Ariosti, composer (born 1666)


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