- 1725 in music
The year 1725 in music involved some significant events.
Events
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi goes toNaples to study underGaetano Greco .Domenico Scarlatti is also in Naples at this time.Publications
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Johann Fux - "Gradus ad Parnassum"Classical music
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George Frideric Handel - "Trio Sonata in D minor"
*Alessandro Scarlatti - "Sonatas for Flute and Strings: no 1 in D major"
*Antonio Vivaldi - "Twelve Concerti", Op 8Opera
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George Frideric Handel - "Rodelinda "
*Georg Philipp Telemann - "Pimpinone"Musical theater Births
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July 24 -John Newton , clergyman and songwriter ("Amazing Grace") (died1807 )
*November 8 -Johann George Tromlitz , flautist (died1805 )
*"probable" -Joaquim Joze Antunes , harpsichord maker (died c.1790 )Deaths
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October 24 -Alessandro Scarlatti ,opera composer , father of Domenico (born1660 )
*"date unknown" -Robert de Visée , lutenist (born c. 1650)
*"probable" -Christian Ritter , composer
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