The year 1714 in music involved some significant events.
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Events
edit- March 2 – Johann Sebastian Bach is appointed Konzertmeister at Weimar, having declined a post at Halle.[1]
- A school of dance opens at the Paris Opera.
- Michel Richard Delalande assumes full control of the French royal chapel upon the retirement of his last co-sous maîtres.[2]
- Francesco Geminiani arrives in London, where he obtains the patronage of William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex.
- Melchior Hoffmann, composer, marries Margaretha Elisabeth Philipp; he is already suffering from a terminal illness.
- Domenico Scarlatti becomes maestro di cappella at the Cappella Giulia in the Vatican.
- Francesco Maria Veracini visits London and performs at the Queen's Theatre.
- The first permanent church organ in the United States, the Brattle organ, imported by Thomas Brattle,[3] is installed in Boston at King's Chapel.[4]
- John Tufts publishes the first instructional book for singing in the USA.
- Gottfried Silbermann completes the new organ for Freiberg Cathedral.[5]
Classical music
edit- Pirro Capacelli Conte Albergati – Cantate et oratorii spirituali, Op. 10
- William Babell – Prelude in G major from the Frontispiece
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12 (movement 2 would later form the Crucifixus movement of his Mass in B minor)
- Widerstehe doch der Sünde, BWV 54
- Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV Anh. 55
- Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61
- Christen, ätzet diesen Tag, BWV 63
- Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn, BWV 152
- Erschallet, ihr Lieder, BWV 172
- Himmelskönig, sei willkommen, BWV 182
- Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199
- Kleines harmonisches Labyrinth, BWV 591 (Now attributed to Johann David Heinichen)
- Organ Concerto in E-flat major, BWV 597
- The Little Organ Book
- Toccata in C minor, BWV 911
- Toccata in G major, BWV 916
- Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, BWV 944
- Aria variata in A minor, BWV 989
- Violin Sonata in E minor, BWV 1023
- Antonio Caldara – Laboravi in gemitu meo
- André Campra – Enée et Didon
- Giovanni Maria Casini – Pensieri per Organo
- Arcangelo Corelli
- Christmas Concerto
- Twelve concerti grossi, Op. 6, published posthumously
- François Couperin – Leçons de ténèbres
- Henri Desmarets – Grands Motets
- Christoph Graupner – Mir hat die Welt trüglich gericht, GWV 1103/14
- George Frideric Handel – Te Deum in D major, HWV 278
- Johann Ernst Prinz von Sachsen-Weimar – Violin Concerto in G major
- Reinhard Keiser – Musicalische Land-Lust
- Jean-Baptiste Loeillet – 12 Recorder Sonatas, Op. 2
- Johann Mattheson – Harmonisches Denckmahl (12 Harpsichord suites)
- Santiago de Murcia – Resumen de acompañar la parte con la guitarra
- James Paisible – The Godolphin. Mr. Isaac's new dance, made for Her Majesty's Birth Day, 1714...
- André Raison – Deuxième livre d'orgue
- Jean-Féry Rebel – Les caractères de la danse
- Alessandro Scarlatti – S. Filippo Neri (oratorio)
- Jean-Baptiste Stuck – Héraclite et Démocrite
- Franz Mathias Techelmann – Toccate, Canzoni, Ricercari et altre Galanterie
- Georg Philipp Telemann – Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, TWV 1:1175
- Giuseppe Valentini – 12 Allettamenti da Camera, Op. 8
Opera
edit- Leonardo Leo – Pisistrato
- Jean-Baptiste Matho – Arion (tragédie en musique)
- Jean-Joseph Mouret
- Les Amours de Ragonde
- Les Fêtes ou Le Triomphe de Thalie
- Nicola Porpora – Arianna e Teseo
- Alessandro Scarlatti – L’amor generoso
- Antonio Vivaldi – Orlando finto pazzo, RV 727
Births
edit- January 1 – Giovanni Battista Mancini, soprano castrato, voice teacher (died 1800)[6]
- February – Susannah Maria Cibber, singer and actress, daughter of Thomas Arne (died 1766)[7]
- February 2 – Gottfried August Homilius, composer, cantor and organist (died 1785)[8]
- February 28 – Gioacchino Conti, soprano castrato opera singer (died 1761)
- March 8 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (died 1788)[9]
- April 16 – Pedro António Avondano, Portuguese composer
- May 6 – Anton Raaff, tenor (died 1797)
- May 12 – Johan Daniel Berlin composer (died 1787)
- July 2 – Christoph Willibald Gluck (died 1787)[10]
- September 10 – Niccolò Jommelli, composer (died 1774)[11]
- December 23 – Ranieri de' Calzabigi, librettist collaborating with Gluck (died 1795)
- date unknown
- Antonio Besozzi, Italian oboist and composer (died 1781)
- Abade António da Costa, Portuguese composer (died 1780)[12]
- Johan Foltmar, composer (died 1794)
- Christian Gottlob Hubert, builder of keyboard instruments (died 1793)
- Edmund Pascha, organist and composer (died 1772)
- probable – Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi, luthier (died 1771)
Deaths
edit- January 4 – Atto Melani, opera singer (born 1626)[13]
- April 17 – Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer (born 1657)[14]
- August 25 – Johann Georg Kühnhausen, composer (date of birth unknown)
- September 3 – Pietro Antonio Fiocco, composer (born 1654)
- November 13 – Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, organist (born 1632)
- date unknown – Benito Bello de Torices, Spanish composer, maestro at the Convent of Las Descalzas Reales (born c.1660)
References
edit- ^ J S Bach timeline. Archived 2012-02-26 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 7 March 2013
- ^ Palisca, Claude V. (1991) [1968]. Baroque Music. Prentice Hall History of Music (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. p. 283. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.
- ^ Elson, The History of American Music, pg. 10
- ^ Southern, pg. 24
- ^ The Great Silbermann Organ. Accessed 7 March 2013
- ^ Johann Adam Hiller (12 April 2001). Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation by Johann Adam Hiller. Cambridge University Press. p. 170. ISBN 978-1-139-42898-9.
- ^ Lewis Saul Benjamin (1969). Stage Favourites of the Eighteenth Century. Books for Libraries Press. p. 195.
- ^ David Paul Held (1976). Chorale Preludes Composed in the Eighteenth Century for Organ and a Solo Instrument. University of Southern California. p. 84.
- ^ Martin Petzoldt (2008). Bach's children in Leipzig: documents in Johann Sebastian Bach's own hand. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt. p. 26. ISBN 978-3-374-02505-3.
- ^ Collected correspondence and papers of Christoph Willibald Gluck. 1962. p. 1.
- ^ The Church Music of Davide Perez and Niccolò Jommelli. Mauricio Dottori. p. 11. ISBN 978-85-98826-19-6.
- ^ Livermore, H. V. (1 November 2004). Portugal: a traveller's history. Boydell Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-84383-063-4. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
- ^ Rita Monaldi; Francesco Sorti (6 June 2013). Veritas. Birlinn. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-85790-570-3.
- ^ Paul E. Eisler (1972). World Chronology of Music History: 1594-1684. Oceana Publications. p. 363. ISBN 978-0-379-16082-6.