1721 in music
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Events
- 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...
marries his second wife, Anna MagdalenaAnna Magdalena BachAnna Magdalena Bach was the second wife of Johann Sebastian Bach.-Biography:...
. - Antonio Maria BononciniAntonio Maria BononciniAntonio Maria Bononcini was an Italian cellist and composer, the younger brother of the better-known Giovanni Battista Bononcini....
becomes maestro di cappella in his native city of Modena. - 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...
becomes director of music in HamburgHamburg-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
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Classical music
- 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...
– Brandenburg ConcertosBrandenburg concertosThe Brandenburg concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach are a collection of six instrumental works presented by Bach to Christian Ludwig, margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, in 1721 . They are widely regarded as among the finest musical compositions of the Baroque era...
, a collection of 3 concerti grossi and 3 ripieno concerti - Pietro LocatelliPietro LocatelliPietro Antonio Locatelli was an Italian composer and violinist.-Biography:Locatelli was born in Bergamo, Italy. A child prodigy on the violin, he was sent to study in Rome under the direction of Arcangelo Corelli...
– Concerti grossi (12), Op. 1: no 8 in F minor "Christmas Concerto" - Alessandro ScarlattiAlessandro ScarlattiAlessandro Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.-Life:Scarlatti was born in...
– St Cecilia Mass
Opera
- Filippo AmadeiFilippo AmadeiFilippo Amadei was an Italian composer from Reggio Emilia, who was active in Rome and London.He appears to have worked as composer of cantatas oratorios and as a cellist for Cardinal Ottoboni from 1690 to 1711, the year of his oratorio Teodosio il giovane , then again 1723-1729.From 1719-1722 he...
, Giovanni Bononcini & 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...
– Muzio ScevolaMuzio ScevolaMuzio Scevola is an opera in three acts about Gaius Mucius Scaevola. The Italian-language libretto was by Paolo Antonio Rolli, adapted from a text by Silvio Stampiglia. The music for the first act was composed by Filippo Amadei , the second act by Giovanni Battista Bononcini, and the third by... - Nicola PorporaNicola PorporaNicola Porpora was an Italian composer of Baroque operas and teacher of singing, whose most famous singing student was the castrato Farinelli. One of his other students was composer Matteo Capranica.-Biography:Porpora was born in Naples...
– Eumene - Alessandro ScarlattiAlessandro ScarlattiAlessandro Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.-Life:Scarlatti was born in...
– La Griselda - 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...
– Der Geduldige Socrates - Antonio VivaldiAntonio VivaldiAntonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...
– La Silvia
Births
- April 1 – Pieter HellendaalPieter HellendaalPieter Hellendaal was an organist and violinist, and one of the most famous composers of Dutch origin in the 18th century. At age 30, he migrated to England where he lived for the last 48 of his 78 years.-Early and Student Years:...
, organist, violinist and composer (died 1799) - December 9 – Peter PelhamPeter Pelham (composer)Peter Pelham was an English-born American organist, harpsichordist, teacher and composer.Pelham was born in London. His father, also named Peter Pelham, was an engraver and an artist. Around 1730 the Pelhams immigrated to Boston, where the father apprenticed his son to Charles Theodore Pachelbel...
, organist, harpsichordist and composer (d. 1805) - date unknown
- Barbara CampaniniBarbara CampaniniBarbara Campanini, known as La Barberina, was a famous Italian ballerina, one of the most important ballet dancers of the 18th century....
, dancer - John GarthJohn Garth (composer)John Garth was an English composer, born in Harperley, near Witton-le-Wear, Co. Durham.-Life:On 23 June 1742 Garth became a freemason at the lodge meeting at the The Bird and Bush in Saddler Street, Durham....
, composer (died 18101810 in music-Events:*Friedrich Kuhlau leaves Hamburg for Copenhagen to avoid conscription into Napoleon's army.*Work begins on the San Carlo Opera House at Naples.-Classical Music:*Ludwig van Beethoven – incidental music for Goethe's Egmont...
) - Mathias van den GheynMathias van den GheynMathias van den Gheyn was a Flemish composer. He lived and worked in Leuven.He is known first and foremost for his compositions for the carillon and the organ, though he wrote for the harpsichord as well...
, composer (died 1785) - Giovanni Battista LorenziGiovanni Battista LorenziGiovanni Battista Lorenzi was an Italian librettist. He was born and died in Giovanni Battista Lorenzi (1721–1807) was an Italian librettist. He was born and died in Giovanni Battista Lorenzi (1721–1807) was an Italian librettist. He was born and died in (Naples, and was a friend of...
, Italian librettist (died 18071807 in music-Events:*Muzio Clementi begins negotiating for British publication rights to the music of Ludwig van Beethoven-Classical Music:*Ludwig van Beethoven – Mass in C*Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Hélène and Paris -Published popular music:...
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- Barbara Campanini
Deaths
- February 22 - Johann Christoph BachJohann Christoph Bach (1671–1721)Johann Christoph Bach , was a German musician and composer. He was the eldest brother of the more famous German musician and composer Johann Sebastian Bach. Johann Christoph studied at Erfurt under Johann Pachelbel, and his library of keyboard music included works by Pachelbel, Johann Jakob...
, organist, elder brother of Johann Sebastian (born 1642) - August - Jacques PaisibleJacques PaisibleJacques Paisible , also known as James Peasable or James Paisible, was a French baroque composer and recorder virtuoso who lived and worked in London for about forty years....
, recorder virtuoso and composer (born c. 1656) - September 3 – Jan Antonín LosyJan Antonín LosyJan Antonín Losy, Count of Losinthal ; also known as Comte d'Logy , was a Bohemian aristocrat, Baroque lute player and composer from Prague. His lute works combine the French style brisé with a more Italian cantabile style...
, lute player and composer (born c. 1643) - date unknown
- Jerónimo de CarriónJerónimo de CarriónJerónimo de Carrión was a Spanish baroque composer.Carrión was born in Segovia and was a choirboy at Segovia Cathedral. From 1687 to 1690 he was maestro de capilla in Mondoñedo and then, after a year at Ourense, from 1692 to his death in 1721 at Segovia Cathedral, taking up the position formerly...
, composer (b. 1660) - Johann FischerJohann Fischer (composer)Johann Fischer was a German violinist, keyboardist and composer of the baroque era. His name is not to be confused with another composer named Johann Fischer, born in Lübeck and listed by Johannes Moller in Cimbria literata...
, violinist, keyboardist and composer (born 1661)
- Jerónimo de Carrión