1734 in music
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Events
- March 29 – Louis-Gabriel GuillemainLouis-Gabriel GuillemainLouis-Gabriel Guillemain was a French composer and violinist.-Biography:Probably born in Paris, Guillemain was raised by the Count de Rochechouart, and started studying violin at an early age. He was then sent to Italy to complete his training as violinist, and studied under Giovanni Battista...
becomes first violinist at the Royal Academy in DijonDijonDijon is a city in eastern France, the capital of the Côte-d'Or département and of the Burgundy region.Dijon is the historical capital of the region of Burgundy. Population : 151,576 within the city limits; 250,516 for the greater Dijon area....
. - Foundation of the Imperial Ballet School at Saint PetersburgSaint PetersburgSaint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
. - The subscription company called the Royal Academy of MusicRoyal Academy of Music (company)The Royal Academy of Music was a company founded in February 1719, during George Frideric Handel's residence at Cannons, by a group of aristocrats to secure themselves a constant supply of baroque opera or opera seria. It commissioned large numbers of new operas from three of the leading composers...
is wound up as a result of difficulties including arguments between Handel and his singers. - April 23 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...
makes the Leipzig premiere of Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel's Passion OratorioOratorioAn oratorio is a large musical composition including an orchestra, a choir, and soloists. Like an opera, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias...
Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.
Classical music
- 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...
– Op. 3, 6 concerti grossiConcerto grossoThe concerto grosso is a form of baroque music in which the musical material is passed between a small group of soloists and full orchestra... - Giovanni Battista MartiniGiovanni Battista MartiniGiovanni Battista Martini , also known as Padre Martini, was an Italian musician.-Biography:Martini was born at Bologna....
– Litaniae atque antlphonae finales B. V. Mariae
Opera
- Giovanni Battista Costanzi – La Flora
- Giovanni Battista PergolesiGiovanni Battista PergolesiGiovanni Battista Pergolesi was an Italian composer, violinist and organist.-Biography:Born at Iesi, Pergolesi studied music there under a local musician, Francesco Santini, before going to Naples in 1725, where he studied under Gaetano Greco and Francesco Feo among others...
– La Serva Padrona
Births
- January 17 – François-Joseph Gossec (died 1829)
- April 19 - Karl von OrdoñezKarl von OrdoñezKarl von Ordoñez was one of a number of composers working in Vienna during the second half of the Eighteenth century. Ordonez was not a full-time professional musician...
, composer (died 1786) - June 28 - Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier, organist and composer (died 1794)
- July 23 – Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini, composer (died 1786)
- December 18 - Jean-Baptiste ReyJean-Baptiste ReyJean-Baptiste Rey was a French conductor and composer.Rey was born at Lauzerte. He remains the longest-serving conductor of the Paris Opera; his tenure spans from the last years of the monarchy to Napoleon's Empire...
, conductor and composer (died 1810) - date unknown
- Benjamin CookeBenjamin CookeBenjamin Cooke was an English composer, organist and teacher.Cooke was born in London and named after his father, a music publisher based in Covent Garden...
, organist, composer and teacher (died 1793)
- Benjamin Cooke
Deaths
- February 25 – Marianna BulgarelliMarianna BulgarelliMarianna Bulgarelli , also known as Maria Anna Benti, was an Italian soprano of the 18th century.Bulgarelli was born and died in Rome; hence her nickname, "La Romanina." She is best remembered as an early patron of and sympathiser with the youthful Metastasio, whose work she encouraged and helped...
, operatic soprano (born c. 1684) - June 13 – Nicolaus VetterNicolaus VetterAndreas Nicolaus Vetter was a German organist and composer.He was born in Herschdorf, Thuringia. He first studied music with G.K. Wecker in Nuremberg and was a student at the Rudolstadt Gymnasium from 1683 to 1688...
, organist and composer (born 1666) - October 6 – Gottfried ReicheGottfried ReicheGottfried Reiche was a German trumpet player and composer of the Baroque era. He is best known for having been Johann Sebastian Bach's chief trumpeter at Leipzig from Bach's arrival there in 1723 until Reiche's death....
, trumpet player and composer (born 1667) - date unknown - Obadiah ShuttleworthObadiah ShuttleworthObadiah Shuttleworth , English composer, violinist and organist, was the son of Thomas Shuttleworth of Spitalfields in London. Thomas was a professional music copyist and harpsichord player.The exact date of Obadiah's birth is uncertain....
, violinist, organist and composer