1701 in music

1701 in music

The year 1701 in music involved some significant events.

Events

*Georg Philipp Telemann matriculates in law at the University of Leipzig. In the same year, he meets George Frideric Handel for the first time.
*Founding of the Slovenian Philharmonic Society (orchestra)
*In a competition held in Dorset Gardens, London, for the best musical setting of the masque 'The Judgement of Paris' by William Congreve, John Weldon emerges victorious, with John Eccles second and Daniel Purcell third.
*The semi-opera "Acis and Galatea", with music by John Eccles and text by Peter Anthony Motteux, is staged in London.
*Domenico Scarlatti is appointed organist and composer of the vice-regal court in Naples

Published popular music

Classical music

*Giovanni Henrico Albicastro - "XII Suonate a tre, due violini et violoncello col basso per l'organo"
*Tomaso Albinoni - "12 Baletti de Camera"
*Georg Muffat - "Auserlesene Instrumentalmusik" (Selected Instrumental Music)

Opera

*Antonio Caldara - "La Partenope"
*Reinhard Keiser - "Störtebecker und Jödge Michaels"
*Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco - "La púrpura de la rosa"

Births

*January 10 - Johann Caspar Simon, organist and composer
*February 1 - Johan Agrell, German composer and violinist (died 1765)
*September 22 - Anna Magdalena Bach, second wife of Johann Sebastian Bach, to whom he dedicated several of his works (died 1760)

Deaths

*October 13 - Andreas Anton Schmelzer, composer


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