1724 in music

The year 1724 in music involved some significant musical events.

Events

• Johann Sebastian Bach composes the Sanctus for his later Mass in B minor.
• John Frederick Lampe arrives in Britain.
• Joseph Bodin de Boismortier moves to Paris from Perpignan.
• Agostino Steffani is elected honorary president of the Academy of Antient Musick in London.
• Johann Adolph Hasse arrives in Naples.
• The Le Saraste violin is made by Antonio Stradivari (now owned by the Real Concervatorio Superior de Música in Madrid, Spain).
• In Rome, Domenico Scarlatti meets Farinelli and Johann Joachim Quantz.
• Marriage of the daughter of music publisher, Jean-Baptiste Christophe Ballard and printer François Boivin.
• Sébastien de Brossard's collection of manuscripts is bought by King Louis XV of France.
• Renatus Harris builds his last organ, that of St Dionis Backchurch in the City of London.
• 7 April Johann Sebastian Bach premieres his St John Passion (BWV 245, BC D 2a) at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.

Published music

• William Croft – Musica sacra
• Benedetto Marcello – Estro poetico-armonico: parafrasi sopra li primi venticinque salmi, vols. 1–4 (Venice: Appresso Domenico Lovisa)

Classical music

• Johann Sebastian Bach
  • St John Passion (first performance at St. Nicolaikirche in Leipzig)
  • Sie werden euch in den Bann tun, BWV 44 (cantata) and some 50 other cantatas
• Joseph Bodin de Boismortier – Les Quatre Saisons (cantata)
• François Couperin – L'Apothéose de Corelli
• Turlough O'Carolan – John Drury (composed for the wedding of a local couple, John Drury and Elizabeth Goldsmith)
• Jean-Philippe Rameau – Pieces de Clavessin

Opera

• George Frideric Handel – Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar); Tamerlano (Tamburlaine), both first performed in London
• Leonardo Vinci – Turno Aricino
• Antonio Vivaldi – Il Giustino

Births

• February 26 – Gottfried Heinrich Bach, mentally handicapped son of Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1763)
• July 18 – Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria, composer, singer, harpsichordist and patron (d. 1780)
• August 28 – Diamante Medaglia Faini, Italian poet and composer (died 1770)
• August 29 – Giovanni Battista Casti, opera librettist (died 1803)
• September 14 – Ignaz Vitzthumb, composer and conductor (died 1816)
• October 1 – Giovanni Battista Cirri, cellist and composer (died 1808)
• December 8 – Claude Balbastre, organist, harpsichordist and composer (died 1799)
• date unknown – Joan Rossell, Catalan composer (died 1780)

Deaths

• March 7 – Wolfgang Nicolaus Pertl, musician and grandfather of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart^[1]
• May 21 – Antonio Salvi, librettist for Vivaldi (born 1664)
• June 7 (buried) – Johann Hugo von Wilderer, composer (born c.1670)
• June 24 – Johann Theile, singer and composer (born 1646)
• August 24 – Andreas Kneller, composer (born 1649)
• probable
  • John Abell, countertenor, composer and lutenist (born 1653)
  • Antonio Quintavalle, opera composer

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