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- 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...
becomes opera director to the Elector of Bavaria. - André CampraAndré CampraAndré Campra was a French composer and conductor.Campra was one of the leading French opera composers in the period between Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Philippe Rameau. He wrote several tragédies en musique, but his chief claim to fame is as the creator of a new genre, opéra-ballet...
becomes vice-maitre-de-chapelle of the Chapelle Royale at Versailles. - In a staged quarrel, Francesco Maria VeraciniFrancesco Maria Veracinithumb|150px|Francesco Maria Veracini.Francesco Maria Veracini was an Italian composer and violinist, perhaps best known for his sets of violin sonatas.-Life:Francesco Maria Veracini led a turbulent life...
comes into conflict with Johann David HeinichenJohann David HeinichenJohann David Heinichen was a German Baroque composer and music theorist who brought the musical genius of Venice to the court of Augustus the Strong in Dresden...
and the singer SenesinoSenesinoSenesino was a celebrated Italian contralto castrato, particularly remembered today for his long collaboration with the composer George Frideric Handel.-Early life and career:...
, ending with his leaping from a third storey window. He will walk with a limp for the rest of his life. - Johann Friedrich FaschJohann Friedrich FaschJohann Friedrich Fasch was a German violinist and composer.Fasch was born in Buttelstedt, was a choirboy in Weissenfels and studied under Johann Kuhnau at the famous St. Thomas School in Leipzig and later founded a Collegium Musicum in that city...
is appointed KapellmeisterKapellmeisterKapellmeister is a German word designating a person in charge of music-making. The word is a compound, consisting of the roots Kapelle and Meister . The words Kapelle and Meister derive from the Latin: capella and magister...
at ZerbstZerbstZerbst is a town in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Until the administrative reform of 2007, Zerbst was the capital of the Anhalt-Zerbst district. Since the 1 January 2010 local government reform, Zerbst has about 24,000 inhabitants.It is not clear when was it founded;...
, where he will remain for the rest of his life. - 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...
produces the first of his Notebooks for Anna Magdalena BachNotebook for Anna Magdalena BachThe title Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach refers to either of two manuscript notebooks that the German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach presented to his second wife Anna Magdalena...
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Classical music
- 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...
– Concertos à cinque, Op. 9: no 2 for Oboe in D minor - 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...
- Das wohltemperierte Klavier, vol 1
- "English" Suites
- Giovanni Bononcini – Divertimenti da camera
- François CouperinFrançois CouperinFrançois Couperin was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as Couperin le Grand to distinguish him from other members of the musically talented Couperin family.-Life:Couperin was born in Paris...
– Pièces de clavecin, Book 3 - Jan Dismas ZelenkaJan Dismas ZelenkaJan Dismas Zelenka , baptised Jan Lukáš Zelenka and previously also known as Johann Dismas Zelenka, was the most important Czech Baroque composer, whose music was notably daring with outstanding harmonic invention and mastery of counterpoint.- Life :Zelenka was born in Louňovice pod Blaníkem, a small...
– Trio Sonatas (6) for 2 Oboes, Bassoon and Basso Continuo
Opera
- Carlo Arrigoni – La vedova
- Baldassare Galuppi – La fede nell'incostanza ossia gli amici rivali
- 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...
– Gli Orti Esperidi (libretto by MetastasioMetastasioPietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.-Early life:...
) - Leonardo VinciLeonardo VinciLeonardo Vinci was an Italian composer, best known for his operas.He was born at Strongoli and educated at Naples under Gaetano Greco in the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo. He first became known for his opere buffe in Neapolitan dialect in 1719; he also composed many opere serie...
– Le Zite 'n Calera
Births
- January 18 – Antonio Rodríguez de HitaAntonio Rodríguez de Hita-Life:Rodríguez was born at Valverde de Alcalá. He became maestro de capilla at Palencia Cathedral and at the Royal Convent of La Encarnación, Madrid....
, composer (d. 1787) - January 28 – Johann Ernst Bach IIJohann Ernst Bach IIJohann Ernst Bach was a German composer of the Bach family. He was the son of Johann Bernhard Bach.-Life:...
, composer (d. 1777) - June 30 – Jiří Antonín Benda, composer (d. 1795)
- October 2 – Leopold WidhalmLeopold WidhalmMartin Leopold Widhalm was an Austrian luthier.Born near Vienna, he worked on many old Bologna lutes that inspired his later work in his manufacture of lutes, violins and violoncellos in Nuremberg, Germany between 1746 and 1776...
, luthier - December 3 – Hryhorii Skovoroda, poet, philosopher and composer (d. 1794)
- probable – Francis Hutcheson (songwriter)Francis Hutcheson (songwriter)Francis Hutcheson was a Scottish songwriter.He was the author of a number of popular songs, including "As Cohn one evening", "Jolly Bacchus" and "Where Weeping Yews". The son of philosopher Francis Hutcheson, he published some of his father's work after the latter's death.-References:*Dictionary...
, songwriter (died 1773)
Deaths
- April 16 – Johann Jacob BachJohann Jacob BachJohann Jacob Bach was a German musician, composer and an older brother of Johann Sebastian Bach....
, musician and composer (b. 1682) - June 5 – Johann KuhnauJohann KuhnauJohann Kuhnau was a German composer, organist and harpsichordist.-Biography :Kuhnau was born in Geising, Saxony. He grew up in a religious Lutheran family. At age nine, he auditioned successfully for the Kreuzschule in Dresden...
, composer (born 1660) - July 11 – Johann Joseph VilsmayrJohann Joseph VilsmayrJohann Joseph Vilsmayr was an Austrian violinist and composer. From 1 September 1689 he worked at Salzburg's Hofkapelle, where he almost certainly became a pupil of Heinrich Ignaz Biber, one of the best contemporary European violinists. Judging from the regular increases of his salary, Vilsmayr...
, violinist and composer (b. 1663) - November 24 – Johann Adam ReinckenJohann Adam ReinckenJohann Adam Reincken was a Dutch/German organist and composer...
, organist (born 1623) - date unknown - Antonio TarsiaAntonio Tarsia (composer)Antonio Tarsia was a Slovenian composer.Tarsia was born in Pula. He was the major composer of the early Baroque in Ljubljana and left a large amount of Latin sacred compositions. He died in Koper.-References:...
, composer (b. 1643)