1701 in music
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Events
- Georg Philipp TelemannGeorg Philipp TelemannGeorg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesheim, Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to study law, but eventually...
matriculates in law at the University of LeipzigUniversity of LeipzigThe University of Leipzig , located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, is one of the oldest universities in the world and the second-oldest university in Germany...
. In the same year, he meets George Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...
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 WeldonJohn Weldon (musician)John Weldon was an English composer.Born at Chichester in the south of England, he was educated at Eton, where he was a chorister, and later received musical instruction from Henry Purcell...
emerges victorious, with John Eccles second and Daniel PurcellDaniel PurcellDaniel Purcell was an English composer, the younger brother of Henry Purcell.As a teenager, Daniel Purcell joined the choir of the Chapel Royal, and in his mid-twenties he became organist of Magdalen College, Oxford. He began to compose while at Oxford, but in 1695 he moved to London to compose...
third. - The semi-opera Acis and Galatea, with music by John Eccles and text by Peter Anthony MotteuxPeter Anthony MotteuxPeter Anthony Motteux , born Pierre Antoine Motteux, was an English author, playwright, and translator...
, is staged in London. - Domenico ScarlattiDomenico ScarlattiGiuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...
is appointed organist and composer of the vice-regal court in Naples
Classical music
- Giovanni Henrico AlbicastroGiovanni Henrico AlbicastroGiovanni Henrico Albicastro was the pseudonym of Johann Heinrich von Weissenburg , a talented amateur musician who published his compositions pseudonymously. Albicastro came from the village of Bieswangen, near Pappenheim in central Bavaria, not far from the village of Weissenburg...
– XII Suonate a tre, due violini et violoncello col basso per l'organo - Tomaso AlbinoniTomaso AlbinoniTomaso Giovanni Albinoni was an Italian Baroque composer. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music, such as the concertos, some of which are regularly recorded.-Biography:Born in Venice, Republic of Venice, to Antonio Albinoni, a...
– 12 Baletti de Camera - Marin MaraisMarin MaraisMarin Marais was a French composer and viol player. He studied composition with Jean-Baptiste Lully, often conducting his operas, and with master of the bass viol Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe for 6 months. He was hired as a musician in 1676 to the royal court of Versailles...
– Domine salvum fac regem (lost) - Georg MuffatGeorg Muffat-Life:He was born in Megève, Savoy, , and of Scottish descent. He studied in Paris with Jean Baptiste Lully between 1663 and 1669, then became an organist in Molsheim and Sélestat. Later, he studied law in Ingolstadt, afterwards settling in Vienna...
– Auserlesene Instrumentalmusik (Selected Instrumental Music)
Opera
- Antonio CaldaraAntonio CaldaraAntonio Caldara was an Italian Baroque composer.Caldara was born in Venice , the son of a violinist. He became a chorister at St Mark's in Venice, where he learned several instruments, probably under the instruction of Giovanni Legrenzi...
– La Partenope - Reinhard KeiserReinhard KeiserReinhard Keiser was a popular German opera composer based in Hamburg. He wrote over a hundred operas, and in 1745 Johann Adolph Scheibe considered him an equal to Johann Kuhnau, George Frideric Handel and Georg Philipp Telemann , but his work was largely forgotten for many...
– Störtebecker und Jödge Michaels - Tomás de Torrejón y VelascoTomás de Torrejón y VelascoTomás de Torrejón y Velasco Sánchez was a Spanish composer, musician and organist based in Peru, associated with the American Baroque.-Life:...
– La púrpura de la rosaLa púrpura de la rosaLa púrpura de la rosa is an opera in one act, composed by Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco to a Spanish libretto by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, the last great writer of the Spanish Golden Age. It is the first known opera to be composed and performed in the Americas and is Torrejón y Velasco's only...
Theoretical writings
- Johan Georg Ahlens musikalisches Winter-Gespräche by Johann Georg AhleJohann Georg AhleJohann Georg Ahle was a German composer, organist, theorist, and Protestant church musician.-Biography:Ahle was born at Mühlhausen. His father was Johann Rudolph Ahle, who supplied him with early musical training. At the age of 23 he succeeded his late father at the post of organist at St. Balsius...
, on intervals and modes. This is the fourth and final part of Ahle's Musikalische Gespräche series of treatises in form of dialogues.
Births
- January 10 – Johann Caspar Simon, organist and composer (died 1776)
- February 1 – Johan AgrellJohan AgrellJohan Agrell was a late German/Swedish baroque composer.He was born in Löth, Östergötland, a province in Sweden and studied in Uppsala. By 1734 he was a violinist at the Kassel court, travelling in England, France, Italy and elsewhere. From 1746 onward, he was Kapellmeister in Nuremberg...
, German composer and violinist (died 1765) - June 19 – François RebelFrançois RebelFrançois Rebel was a French composer of the Baroque era. Born in Paris, the son of the leading composer Jean-Féry Rebel, he was a child prodigy who became a violinist in the orchestra of the Paris Opera at the age of 13...
, French composer (died 1775) - September 22 – Anna Magdalena BachAnna Magdalena BachAnna Magdalena Bach was the second wife of Johann Sebastian Bach.-Biography:...
, second wife of Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
, to whom he dedicated several of his works (died 1760)
Deaths
- February 15 – Adam DreseAdam DreseAdam Drese was a German composer and bass viol player. He was appointed Kapellmeister to Duke Wilhelm IV of Saxe-Weimar in 1652, but in 1662, after the death of the duke, the Capelle was disbanded and Drese sought a similar position with Duke Bernhard at Jena...
, composer and bass viol player (b. c.1620) - March 10 – Johann SchelleJohann SchelleJohann Schelle was a German baroque composer.Schelle was born in Geising and died in Leipzig. He was the cantor of the Thomanerchor from 1677 to 1701....
, composer (b. 1648 - October 13 – Andreas Anton Schmelzer, composer (b. 1653)
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- Carolus HacquartCarolus HacquartCarolus Hacquart was a composer, born c. 1640 in Bruges, in present-day Belgium.-Life:Hacquart received his education, comprising Latin and composition as well as viola da gamba, lute and organ, most probably in his native town...
, composer (b. c.1640) - Servaes de KoninckServaes de KoninckServaes de Koninck, or Servaes de Konink, Servaas de Koninck or Servaas de Konink was a baroque composer from the Netherlands, of motets, Dutch songs, chamber and incidental music, French airs and Italian cantatas....
, composer (b. c.1654)
- Carolus Hacquart