1702 in music

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The year 1702 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • 13 March – A month after commencing his university education, 17-year-old George Frideric Handel accepts the position of organist at Halle Cathedral, replacing J. C. Leporin, for whom he had acted as assistant.[1]
  • Johann Sebastian Bach concludes his musical education at St. Michael's School in Lüneburg.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann becomes director of Leipzig opera, and founds Leipzig Collegium Musicum.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti leaves Naples and seeks the patronage of Prince Ferdinando de' Medici.
  • Michel de Saint-Lambert publishes Les principes du clavecin.
  • Probable year – German Baroque composer Jakob Greber moves from Italy to London – accompanied by his mistress, operatic soprano Margherita de L'Épine – where he will remain for three years composing incidental music for plays and arias for L'Épine, including those for this year's première of Nicholas Rowe's play The Fair Penitent.[2]
  • Tavern Bilkers, burlesque by John Weaver

Classical music

  • Giovanni Henrico Albicastro – Sonate a violino solo col basso continuo
  • Tomaso Albinoni
    • Lontananza crudel, mi squarci il core, T.204.04 (Op. 4)
    • Poiché al vago seren di due pupille, T.205
  • Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns – St John Passion (formerly attributed to Reinhard Keiser)
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier
    • Extremum Dei judicium, H.401
    • Judicium Salomonis, performed for the opening of the French parliament[3]
  • François Couperin
    • Quatre versets d'un motet composé et chanté par ordre du roy
    • Qui dat nivem sicut lanam
  • Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
    • Ariadne musica
    • Tafelmusik
  • Louis Marchand – Pièces de clavecin, Livre 1
  • James Paisible
    • 6 Sonatas of Two Parts
    • Airs for the play King Edward the Third
    • Airs for the comedy She Would and She Would Not
  • Alessandro Scarlatti – Mottetti sacri ad una, due, trè, e quattro voci con violini
  • Francesco Scarlatti – Dixit dominus (Psalm 110)
  • Johannes Schenck – Le nymphe di Rheno, 12 sonatas and suites for 2 violas da gamba, Op. 8 (Amsterdam)
  • Johann Speth – Ars Magna Consoni et Dissoni
  • Francisco Valls – Missa Scala Aretina
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow – Danksaget dem Vater

Opera

  • François Bouvard – Médus
  • André Campra – Tancrède
  • Pietro Torri – Torneo

Births

  • January 6 – José de Nebra, composer (died 1768)
  • February 7 – Carl August Thielo, composer (died 1763)
  • February 27 – Johann Valentin Görner, composer (died 1762)
  • March 5 – Michael Mietke II, German harpsichord maker (died 1754)
  • March 13 – Burkat Shudi, Swiss-born harpsichord maker (died 1773)
  • March 27 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer (died 1762)
  • July 22 – Alessandro Besozzi, oboist and composer (died 1793)

Deaths

  • July 6 – Nicolas Lebègue, French harpsichordist, composer and organist (born 1632)
  • July 16 – Étienne Loulié, musician, pedagogue and musical theorist (born 1654)
  • September 17 – Olaus Rudbeck, composer (born 1630)
  • December – José de Cascante, organist and composer (born 1646)

References

  1. ↑ Dent, E. J. (2004). Handel. R A Kessinger Publishing. p. 2. ISBN 1-4191-2275-4.
  2. ↑ Steffen, Gerhard (1966). "Greber, Johann Jacob". Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 7. p. 16. Retrieved 2013-06-19. Play text published 1703.
  3. ↑ Palisca, Claude V. (1991) [1968]. Baroque Music. Prentice Hall History of Music (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. p. 289. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.
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