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1734 In Music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1734. Events *March 29 – Louis-Gabriel Guillemain becomes first violinist at the Royal Academy in Dijon. *April 23 – Johann Sebastian Bach gives the Leipzig première of Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel's Passion Oratorio ''Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld'' at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. *The London subscription company called the Royal Academy of Music is wound up as a result of difficulties including arguments between Handel and his singers. *Approximate date of the William Dixon manuscript of music for the Border pipes. Classical music *Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Harpsichord Concerto in E-flat major, H.404 *Johann Michael Bach – ''Fürchtet euch nicht'' *Johann Sebastian Bach – ''3 Choräle zu Trauungen'', BWV 250–252 * Antonio Caldara – ''Il giuoco del quadriglio'' *Christoph Graupner **''Ouverture in G major'', GWV 466 **''Tut Busse und lasse sich ein jeglicher'', GWV 1104/34 **''Herr, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March 29
Events Pre-1600 * 845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving. * 1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice. * 1461 – Battle of Towton: Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England, bringing a temporary stop to the Wars of the Roses. * 1500 – Cesare Borgia is given the title of Captain General and Gonfalonier by his father Rodrigo Borgia after returning from his conquests in the Romagna. * 1549 – The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded. 1601–1900 * 1632 – Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629. *1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf. *18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Battista Martini
Giovanni Battista or Giambattista Martini, O.F.M. Conv. (24 April 1706 – 3 August 1784), also known as Padre Martini, was an Italian Conventual Franciscan friar, who was a leading musician, composer, and music historian of the period and a mentor to Mozart. Biography Giovanni Battista Martini was born in Bologna, in that era part of the Papal States. His father, Antonio Maria Martini, a violinist, taught him the elements of music and the violin and he later learned singing and harpsichord playing from Padre Pradieri, and counterpoint from Antonio Riccieri and Giacomo Antonio Perti. Having received his education in classics from the priests of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, he afterwards entered the novitiate of the Conventual Franciscans at their friary in Lago, at the close of which he professed religious vows and received the religious habit of the Order on 11 September 1722. In 1725, though only nineteen years old, he received the appointment of chapel-maste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariodante
''Ariodante'' ( HWV 33) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The anonymous Italian libretto was based on a work by Antonio Salvi, which in turn was adapted from Canti 4, 5 and 6 of Ludovico Ariosto's ''Orlando Furioso''. Each act contains opportunities for dance, originally composed for dancer Marie Sallé and her company. The opera was first performed in the Covent Garden Theatre, London, on 8 January 1735. ''Ariodante'' opened Handel's first season at Covent Garden and successfully competed against the rival Opera of the Nobility, supported by the Prince of Wales. Handel had the tacit and financial support of the King and Queen and, more vocally, of the Princess Royal. The opera received 11 performances during its premiere season at Covent Garden. Like Handel's other works in the ''opera seria'' genre, ''Ariodante'', despite its initial success, fell into oblivion for nearly two hundred years. An edition of the score was published in the early 1960s, from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arianna In Creta
''Arianna in Creta'' ("Ariadne in Crete", HWV 32) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was adapted by Francis Colman from Pietro Pariati's ''Arianna e Teseo'', a text previously set by Nicola Porpora in 1727 and Leonardo Leo in 1729. Performance history The opera was first given at the King's Theatre in London on 26 January 1734 and then presented in a revised version with dances added for Marie Sallé at Covent Garden Theatre on 27 November of the same year. As with all Baroque opera seria, ''Arianna in Creta'' went unperformed for many years, but with the revival of interest in Baroque music and historically informed musical performance since the 1960s,''Arianna in Creta'', like all Handel operas, receives performances at festivals and opera houses today. Among other performances, ''Arianna in Creta'' was staged by the London Handel Festival in 2014 and performed in concert by the Handel Festival, Halle in 2018 Roles Sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Pastor Fido (Handel)
''Il pastor fido'' ("The Faithful Shepherd") ( HWV 8) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. It was set to a libretto by Giacomo Rossi based on the famed and widely familiar pastoral poem of the 'Il pastor fido' by Giovanni Battista Guarini. It had its first performance on 22 November 1712 at the Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket, London. Performance history It was composed in 1712 and first performed on 22 November of the same year under the composer. The opera opened to a largely hostile reception, probably due to disappointment after the success of ''Rinaldo'': one diarist noted critically that "the scene represented only the Country of Arcadia; the Habits ostumeswere old – the Opera short". The roles of Mirtillo and Silvio were originally sung by the castratos Valeriano Pellegrini and Valentino Urbani. The overture is in six movements and is long for its time: it is thought that it may have been originally composed as an unrelated orchestral suite. The r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geminiano Giacomelli
Geminiano Giacomelli (sometimes Jacomelli) (28 May 1692 – 25 January 1740) was an Italian composer. Biography Giacomelli was born in Piacenza. In 1724 he was named to the post of ''Kapellmeister'' to the duke of Parma. Beginning with the first performance of his opera ''Ipermestra'', in 1724, he became one of the most popular opera composers of his era. Between 1724 and 1740 he composed 19 operas. His best known opera is ''Cesare in Egitto'' of 1735. He also wrote a deal of sacred music, including eight psalm settings for tenor and bass, and some concertos with continuo. In 1738 Giacomelli again became ''Kapellmeister'', this time at the Basilica della Santa Casa in Loreto; he died in Loreto in 1740. List of works Operas *''Ipermestra'' (Venice, 1724) *''Catone in Utica'' (Vienna 1727; Teatro Ducale, Milan, 1736) *''Scipione in Cartagine'' (Venice, 1728) *''Zidiana'' (Milan, 1728) *''Astianatte '' (Alessandria, 1729) *''Gianguir'' (Venice, 1729) *''Lucio Papirio dittat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Battista Costanzi
Giovanni Battista Costanzi (1704-1778) was an Italian composer and cellist. He succeeded Stefano Fabri as ''maestro di cappella'' of the Cappella Giulia at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Also known as teacher of Luigi Boccherini, to him is dedicated the opera house main theatre in Rome. 'Giovanni Battista Costanzi', in New Grove Dictionary of Opera, vol. i, p. 971. Recordings * Cantata per Natale, soloists, Gambe di legno, Fra Bernardo Fra Bernardo is a Vienna-based classical music record label founded by Bernhard Drobig, and specializing in young artists and early music Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can .... * Sonate per violoncello. Giovanni Sollima; Monika Leskovar. Arianna Art Ensemble. Glossa. References Italian Baroque composers 1704 births 1778 deaths Italian Classical-period composers 18th-century Italian composers 18th-century Italian male musicians {{Italy-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artaserse (Hasse)
''Artaserse'' is an opera (''dramma per musica'') in three acts composed by Johann Adolph Hasse to an Italian libretto adapted from that by Metastasio by Giovanni Boldini. It premiered at the Teatro di San Giovanni Grisostomo in Venice on 11 February 1730, shortly after the libretto's first setting by Leonardo Vinci premiered in Rome 6 days earlier. Metastasio's libretto, ''Artaserse'', has been used in more than 90 works. Hasse himself would later re-work the score for performances at the Opernhaus am Zwinger in Dresden (1740) and the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples (1760). Roles Recordings *Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia, conductor: Corrado Rovaris; Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani (tenor) as Artaserse, Maria Grazia Schiavo (soprano) as Mandane, Sonia Prina (contralto) as Artabano, Franco Fagioli (countertenor) as Arbace, Rosa Bove (mezzo-soprano) as Semira, Antonio Giovannini (countertenor) as Megabise. Recording date: July 2012, Festival della Valle d'Itria, Martina Franca releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riccardo Broschi
Riccardo Broschi (c. 1698 – 1756) was a composer of baroque music and the brother of the opera singer Carlo Broschi, known as Farinelli. Life Broschi was born in Naples, the son of Salvatore Broschi, a composer and chapelmaster of the Cathedral of the Puglinese citizens, and Caterina Berrese (according to the Book of Baptisms of the Church of S. Nicola, today near the Episcopal Archives). The Broschi family moved to Naples at the end of 1711, and enrolled Riccardo, their firstborn, in the Conservatory of S. Maria di Loreto, where he would study to become a composer under G. Perugino and F. Mancinipresso. Salvatore, meanwhile, died unexpectedly, at age 36, on 4 November 1717. Caterina subsequently made Riccardo head of the family. He made his debut in 1725 with ''La Vecchia Sorda''. Next, he moved to London in 1726 and stayed there until 1734 and wrote six heroic operas, his most successful being ''Artaserse''. In 1737 he moved to Stuttgart and briefly served at the Stuttga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Araia
Francesco Domenico Araja (or Araia, Russian: Арайя) (June 25, 1709 in Naples, Kingdom of Sicily – between 1762 and 1770 in Bologna, States of the Church) was an Italian composer who spent 25 years in Russia and wrote at least 14 operas for the Russian Imperial Court including ''Tsefal i Prokris'', the first opera in Russian. Biography He was born and received his musical education in Naples and began to compose operas at the age of 20. His early operas were produced in the theatres of Naples, Florence, Rome, Milan, and Venice. In 1735 he was invited to St. Petersburg together with a big Italian opera troupe, and became the ''maestro di cappella'' (''Kapellmeister'') to Empress Anne Ioanovna and later Empress Elizaveta Petrovna. In the winter operas were usually given in a wing of the Zimniy Dvorets (the Winter Palace), and in the summer time in the Theatre of Letniy Sad in the Summer Garden. His ''La forza dell'amore e dell'odio'' was the first Italian opera performe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe, giving origin to many imitators and admirers. He pioneered many developments in orchestration, violin technique and Program music, programatic music. He consolidated the emerging concerto form into a widely accepted and followed idiom, which was paramount in the development of Johann Sebastian Bach's instrumental music. Vivaldi composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other musical instruments, as well as Sacred Music, sacred choral works and more than List of operas by Antonio Vivaldi, fifty operas. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as ''The Four Seasons (Vivaldi), the Four Seasons''. Many of his compositions were written for the all-female music ensemble of the ''Ospedale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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