1711 in music
The year 1711 in music involved some significant events.
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Events
- February 24 – The London premiere of Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage, at the Queen's Theatre, Haymarket.[1] This is the first of at least 25 operas by Handel that will appear by 1739. John Walsh becomes Handel's regular printer beginning with the publication of Rinaldo.
- April 3 – Possible premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Mark Passion pastiche at the chapel of Wilhelmsburg Castle (two movements by Bach).
- Invention of the tuning fork by John Shore.
Classical music
- Giovanni Maria Bononcini – Idol mio, bel tesoro
- Louis-Antoine Dornel – 8 Violin Sonatas and 4 Flute Suites, Op. 2
- Sebastián Durón – Veneno es de Amor la envidia
- Christoph Graupner
- Furcht und Zagen, GWV 1102/11b
- Angenehmes Wasserbad, GWV 1104/11c
- Reiner Geist lass doch mein Herz, GWV 1138/11
- Ach Gott wie manches Herzeleid, GWV 1142/11
- Angst und Jammer, GWV 1145/11
- George Frideric Handel
- Siete rose rugiadose, HWV 162
- Splenda l'alba in oriente, HWV 166
- Oboe Sonata in F major, HWV 363a
- Sonata for oboe in C minor, HWV 366
- Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre – Cantates françaises sur des sujets tirés de l’écriture, Livre II
- Barbara Kluntz – Choral Music Buch
- Leo Leonardo – Splende più dell'usato
- Francesco Manfredini – Concerto for 2 Trumpets in D Major
- Marin Marais – Pièces de Viole, Book 3
- Michele Mascitti – 14 Sonatas, Op. 4
- Alessandro Scarlatti – Miserere
- Jean-Baptiste Stuck – Les Bains de Tomery
- Joseph Valette de Montigny – Motets I
- Francesco Mario Veracini – Concerto for eight instruments in D major
- Antonio Vivaldi – L'Estro armonico (Op. 3), published in Amsterdam
Opera
- Sebastián Durón – Las nuevas armas de amor
- Johann Friedrich Fasch – Clomire
- George Frideric Handel – Rinaldo
- Reinhard Keiser – Croesus
- Nicola Porpora – Flavio Anicio Olibrio
Births
- January 12 – Gaetano Latilla, opera composer (died 1788)
- January 29 – Giuseppe Bonno, composer (died 1788)
- April 22 – Paul II Anton, Prince Esterházy, patron of music (died 1762)
- June 23 – Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, luthier (died 1786)
- July 26 – Lorenz Christoph Mizler, writer on music (died 1778)
- September 11 – William Boyce, composer (died 1779)
- September 18 – Ignaz Holzbauer, composer (died 1783)
- December 25 – Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, violinist and composer (died 1772)
- date unknown
- Davide Perez, opera composer (died 1778)
- John Francis Wade, hymnist (died 1786)
- probable – Panna Cinka, violinist (died 1772)
Deaths
- March 19 – Thomas Ken, hymn-writer (born 1637)
- September 3 – Élisabeth Sophie Chéron, artist and musician (born 1648)
- September 27 – Christian Geist, organist and composer (born c. 1650)
- November 3 – Ferdinand Tobias Richter, organist and composer (born 1651)
- December 18 – Louis de Deyster, artist and maker of musical instruments (born 1656)
- December 25 – Johann Nikolaus Hanff, organist and composer (born 1663)
- probable – Joannes Florentius a Kempis, Dutch composer (born 1635)
References
- Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
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