1719 in music
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This article lists the most significant events and works of the year 1719 in music.
Events
- February – Royal Academy of Music (1719). Giovanni Bononciniis brought to London to compose for the Academy.
- August 20 – Francesco Veracini performs at the palace of Moritzburg for the wedding of the Crown Prince to Maria Josepha of Austria.[1]
- João V of Portugal.
- Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf founds the firm of Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig, the world's oldest music publisher.
- Alessandro Scarlatti arrives in Rome.
- Johann Mattheson becomes kapellmeister to the Duke of Holstein.
- Giuseppe Pitoni becomes choirmaster of St Peter's in Rome.
- Antonio Stradivariusmakes the "Duke of Marlborough" cello.
- In Japan, the Kumiodori dance form is created by Chokun Tamagusuku.
- Jean-Baptiste Morin becomes "maître de musique" to Louise-Adélaïde, daughter of the Duke of Orléans.
Published popular music
- Thomas Fleet – Mother Goose's Melodies For Children
Classical music
- Johann Sebastian Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (presumed date of original composition)
- Johann Joseph Fux – Gesù Cristo negato da Pietro
- Christoph Graupner – Ich bleibe Gott getreu, GWV 1106/19
- George Friedrich Handel
- Di godere ha speranza il mio core (Oh my dearest, my lovely creature), HWV 288-7
- Pièces à un & deux clavecins (published); Contains Keyboard Sonata in G major, HWV 579
- Johann David Heinichen – Diana sull'Elba (Serenade; premiered Sept. 18 in Paris)
- Jacques-Martin Hotteterre – L'Art de préluder sur la flûte traversière, Op. 7 (published in Paris)
- George Philipp Telemann
- Violin Concerto, TWV 51:B1 (composed Sept. 14)
- Machet die Tore weit, TWV 1:1074 (premiered Mar. 12 in Frankfurt)
- Antonio Vivaldi – 6 Concerti, Op.6 (RV 324, 259, 318, 216, 280, 239)
Opera
- Antonio Caldara – Lucio Papirio dittatore, premiered Nov. 4 in Vienna
- Francesco Gasparini
- L'Astianatte, premiered in Rome during Carnival
- Lucio Vero, premiered January in Rome
- Antonio Lotti – Teofane, premiered Sept. 13 in Dresden
- Alessandro Scarlatti
- Cambise, premiered Feb. 4 in Naples
- Marco Attilio Regolò
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Tito Manlio, premiered January in Mantua
- Il Teuzzone
Births
- April 2 – Vincenzo Legrenzo Ciampi
- April 17 – Christian Gottfried Krause, composer (died 1770)
- by May 4 – Antoine Mahaut, composer (died c. 1785)
- July 16 – William Walond Sr., composer (died 1768)
- September 3 – Ferdinand Zellbell the Younger, Swedish composer (died 1780)
- October 12 – Ignaz Franz, Kapellmeister and composer (died 1790)
- November 9 – Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, polymath (died 1796)
- November 14 – Leopold Mozart, baroque composer (died 1787)
- November 23 – Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, music publisher (died 1794)
Deaths
- January 19 – Joachim Tielke, German instrument-maker (born 1641)[2]
- May – John Lenton, violinist, singer and composer
- June 11 – Johann Abraham Schmierer, composer (born 1661)
- July – Johann Valentin Meder, organist, singer and composer (born 1649)[3]
- July 26 – Johann Georg Christian Störl, organist and composer (born 1675)
- July 28 (buried) – Arp Schnitger, organ builder (born 1648)
- date unknown
- Michael Mietke, maker of harpsichords and harps (born c.1656/1671)
- Juan de Navas, harpist and composer (born c.1650)
- André Raison, organist and composer (born 1650)
- probable
- Johann Speth, composer
- Francesco Antonio Urio, composer (born 1631)
References
- ^ Flathe, Heinrich Theodor (1878), "Friedrich August II., Kurfürst von Sachsen", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 7, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot: 784–86
- ^ Mitteilungen, volume 7 (in German). Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte. 1902. p. 415.
- ^ Guido Adler; Friedrich Chrysander (1891). Vierteljahrsschrift für Musikwissenschaft (in German). Breitkopf und Härtel. p. 47.