1714 in music

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The year 1714 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • March 2 – Johann Sebastian Bach is appointed Konzertmeister at Weimar, having declined a post at Halle.[1]
  • A school of dance opens at the Paris Opera.
  • Michel Richard Delalande assumes full control of the French royal chapel upon the retirement of his last co-sous maîtres.[2]
  • Francesco Geminiani arrives in London, where he obtains the patronage of William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex.
  • Melchior Hoffmann, composer, marries Margaretha Elisabeth Philipp; he is already suffering from a terminal illness.
  • Domenico Scarlatti becomes maestro di cappella at the Cappella Giulia in the Vatican.
  • Francesco Maria Veracini visits London and performs at the Queen's Theatre.
  • The first permanent church organ in the United States, the Brattle organ, imported by Thomas Brattle,[3] is installed in Boston at King's Chapel.[4]
  • John Tufts publishes the first instructional book for singing in the USA.
  • Gottfried Silbermann completes the new organ for Freiberg Cathedral.[5]

Classical music

  • Pirro Capacelli Conte Albergati – Cantate et oratorii spirituali, Op. 10
  • William Babell – Prelude in G major from the Frontispiece
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    • Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12 (movement 2 would later form the Crucifixus movement of his Mass in B minor)
    • Widerstehe doch der Sünde, BWV 54
    • Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV Anh. 55
    • Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61
    • Christen, ätzet diesen Tag, BWV 63
    • Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn, BWV 152
    • Erschallet, ihr Lieder, BWV 172
    • Himmelskönig, sei willkommen, BWV 182
    • Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199
    • Kleines harmonisches Labyrinth, BWV 591 (Now attributed to Johann David Heinichen)
    • Organ Concerto in E-flat major, BWV 597
    • The Little Organ Book
      • Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland, BWV 599
      • Gott, durch deine Güte, BWV 600
      • Lob sei dem allmächtigen Gott, BWV 602
      • Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 604
      • Vom Himmel kam der Engel Schaar, BWV 607
      • Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten, BWV 642
      • Alle Menschen müssen sterben, BWV 643
    • Toccata in C minor, BWV 911
    • Toccata in G major, BWV 916
    • Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, BWV 944
    • Aria variata in A minor, BWV 989
    • Violin Sonata in E minor, BWV 1023
  • Antonio Caldara – Laboravi in gemitu meo
  • André Campra – Enée et Didon
  • Giovanni Maria Casini – Pensieri per Organo
  • Arcangelo Corelli
    • Christmas Concerto
    • Twelve concerti grossi, Op. 6, published posthumously
  • François Couperin – Leçons de ténèbres
  • Henri Desmarets – Grands Motets
  • Christoph Graupner – Mir hat die Welt trüglich gericht, GWV 1103/14
  • George Frideric Handel – Te Deum in D major, HWV 278
  • Johann Ernst Prinz von Sachsen-Weimar – Violin Concerto in G major
  • Reinhard Keiser – Musicalische Land-Lust
  • Jean-Baptiste Loeillet – 12 Recorder Sonatas, Op. 2
  • Johann Mattheson – Harmonisches Denckmahl (12 Harpsichord suites)
  • Santiago de Murcia – Resumen de acompañar la parte con la guitarra
  • James Paisible – The Godolphin. Mr. Isaac's new dance, made for Her Majesty's Birth Day, 1714...
  • André Raison – Deuxième livre d'orgue
  • Jean-Féry Rebel – Les caractères de la danse
  • Alessandro Scarlatti – S. Filippo Neri (oratorio)
  • Jean-Baptiste Stuck – Héraclite et Démocrite
  • Franz Mathias Techelmann – Toccate, Canzoni, Ricercari et altre Galanterie
  • Georg Philipp Telemann – Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, TWV 1:1175
  • Giuseppe Valentini – 12 Allettamenti da Camera, Op. 8

Opera

  • Leonardo Leo – Pisistrato
  • Jean-Baptiste Matho – Arion (tragédie en musique)
  • Jean-Joseph Mouret
    • Les Amours de Ragonde
    • Les Fêtes ou Le Triomphe de Thalie
  • Nicola Porpora – Arianna e Teseo
  • Alessandro Scarlatti – L’amor generoso
  • Antonio Vivaldi – Orlando finto pazzo, RV 727

Births

  • January 1 – Giovanni Battista Mancini, soprano castrato, voice teacher (died 1800)[6]
  • February – Susannah Maria Cibber, singer and actress, daughter of Thomas Arne (died 1766)[7]
  • February 2 – Gottfried August Homilius, composer, cantor and organist (died 1785)[8]
  • February 28 – Gioacchino Conti, soprano castrato opera singer (died 1761)
  • March 8 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (died 1788)[9]
  • April 16 – Pedro António Avondano, Portuguese composer
  • May 6 – Anton Raaff, tenor (died 1797)
  • May 12 – Johan Daniel Berlin composer (died 1787)
  • July 2 – Christoph Willibald Gluck (died 1787)[10]
  • September 10 – Niccolò Jommelli, composer (died 1774)[11]
  • December 23 – Ranieri de' Calzabigi, librettist collaborating with Gluck (died 1795)
  • date unknown
    • Antonio Besozzi, Italian oboist and composer (died 1781)
    • Abade António da Costa, Portuguese composer (died 1780)[12]
    • Johan Foltmar, composer (died 1794)
    • Christian Gottlob Hubert, builder of keyboard instruments (died 1793)
    • Edmund Pascha, organist and composer (died 1772)
  • probable – Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi, luthier (died 1771)

Deaths

  • January 4 – Atto Melani, opera singer (born 1626)[13]
  • April 17 – Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer (born 1657)[14]
  • August 25 – Johann Georg Kühnhausen, composer (date of birth unknown)
  • September 3 – Pietro Antonio Fiocco, composer (born 1654)
  • November 13 – Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, organist (born 1632)
  • date unknown – Benito Bello de Torices, Spanish composer, maestro at the Convent of Las Descalzas Reales (born c.1660)

References

  1. ↑ J S Bach timeline. Archived 2012-02-26 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 7 March 2013
  2. ↑ Palisca, Claude V. (1991) [1968]. Baroque Music. Prentice Hall History of Music (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. p. 283. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.
  3. ↑ Elson, The History of American Music, pg. 10
  4. ↑ Southern, pg. 24
  5. ↑ The Great Silbermann Organ. Accessed 7 March 2013
  6. ↑ Johann Adam Hiller (12 April 2001). Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation by Johann Adam Hiller. Cambridge University Press. p. 170. ISBN 978-1-139-42898-9.
  7. ↑ Lewis Saul Benjamin (1969). Stage Favourites of the Eighteenth Century. Books for Libraries Press. p. 195.
  8. ↑ David Paul Held (1976). Chorale Preludes Composed in the Eighteenth Century for Organ and a Solo Instrument. University of Southern California. p. 84.
  9. ↑ Martin Petzoldt (2008). Bach's children in Leipzig: documents in Johann Sebastian Bach's own hand. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt. p. 26. ISBN 978-3-374-02505-3.
  10. ↑ Collected correspondence and papers of Christoph Willibald Gluck. 1962. p. 1.
  11. ↑ The Church Music of Davide Perez and Niccolò Jommelli. Mauricio Dottori. p. 11. ISBN 978-85-98826-19-6.
  12. ↑ Livermore, H. V. (1 November 2004). Portugal: a traveller's history. Boydell Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-84383-063-4. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
  13. ↑ Rita Monaldi; Francesco Sorti (6 June 2013). Veritas. Birlinn. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-85790-570-3.
  14. ↑ Paul E. Eisler (1972). World Chronology of Music History: 1594-1684. Oceana Publications. p. 363. ISBN 978-0-379-16082-6.
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