1724 in music
The year 1724 in music involved some significant musical events.
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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 to the 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
    
- Attilio Ariosti
- 6 Cantatas (London)
 - 6 Lessons, for viola d'amore and basso continuo (London)
 
 - Francesco Barsanti – Sonate [6], for recorder or violin and continuo, Op. 1 (London)
 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier – Cantates françoises (Les Quatre Saisons) (four cantatas for solo voice, various instruments, and basso continuo), Op. 5 (Paris)
 - François Couperin – Les goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux concerts (Paris)
 - William Croft – Musica sacra
 - Jean-François Dandrieu – Pièces de clavecin, Book 1
 - Francesco Mancini – XII Solos for recorder and continuo (London)
 - Thomas Marc – Suitte de pièces de dessus et de pardessus de viole
 - Benedetto Marcello – Estro poetico-armonico: parafrasi sopra li primi venticinque salmi, vols. 1–4 (Venice: Appresso Domenico Lovisa)
 - Jean-Philippe Rameau – Pieces de Clavessin
 
Classical music
    
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Wo soll ich fliehen hin, BWV 5
 - Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7
 - Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben?, BWV 8
 - Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10
 - St John Passion (first performance at St. Nicolaikirche in Leipzig)
 - Wer da gläubet und getauft wird, BWV 37
 - Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir, BWV 38
 - Sie werden euch in den Bann tun, BWV 44 (cantata) and some 50 other cantatas
 - Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV 96
 - Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 99
 - Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101
 - Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104
 - Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 116
 - Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 121
 - Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BWV 135
 - Wo gehest du hin, BWV 166
 - Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV 180
 - Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister, BWV 181
 - Erwünschtes Freudenlicht, BWV 184
 
 - George Frideric Handel – Silete venti, HWV 242
 - Turlough O'Carolan – John Drury (composed for the wedding of a local couple, John Drury and Elizabeth Goldsmith)
 - Jan Dismas Zelenka – De profundis, ZWV 97
 
Opera
    
- Attilio Ariosti
- Artaserse (London, King's Theatre, 1 December)
 - Aquilio consolo (London, King's Theatre, 21 May)
 - Vespasiano (London, King's Theatre, 14 January)
 
 - Antonio Caldara – Gianguir
 - George Frideric Handel 
- Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar), HWV 17
 - Tamerlano (Tamburlaine), HWV 18
 
 - Dominico Sarro – Didone abbandonata
 - Leonardo Vinci
- Eraclea
 - Farnace
 - Ifigenia in Tauride
 - La Rosmira fedele
 - Turno Aricino
 
 - Antonio Vivaldi 
- Il Giustino RV 717
 - La virtù trionfante dell'amore e dell'odio, ovvero il Tigrane, RV 740 (co-composed with Benedetto Micheli and Nicola Romaldi[1])
 
 
Theoretical writings
    
- Edward Betts – An Introduction to the Skill of Musick
 - Tomás Pereira – Lulu Zhengyi Xubian
 - William Turner – Sound Anatomiz’d in A Philosophical Essay on Musick
 
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[2]
 - 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
 
 
References
    
- "La virtù trionfante dell'amore e dell'odio, ovvero il Tigrane, RV 740 (Various) - IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library: Free Public Domain Sheet Music". imslp.org. Retrieved 2019-03-12.
 - Solomon, Maynard (1995). Mozart: A Life (1st ed.). New York: HarperCollins. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-0-06-019046-0. OCLC 31435799.
 
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