1724 in music

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See also: 1723 in music, other events of 1724, 1725 in music, list of years in music.

Contents 1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Opera 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• Johann Sebastian Bach begins his 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.
• Brossard's collection of manuscripts is bought by King Louis XV of France.

Classical music

• St John's Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach (first performance at St. Nicolaikirche in Leipzig)
• Cantata No. 38 by Bach
• L'Apothéose de Corelli by François Couperin
• Musica sacra by William Croft
• Estro Poetrico Armonico, vol. 1 by Benedetto Marcello
• John Drury by Turlough O'Carolan (composed for the wedding of a local couple, John Drury and Elizabeth Goldsmith)

Opera

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

Births

• December 1 - Dismas Hatas, composer

Deaths

• July 10 - Johann Theile, singer and composer