1710 in music
Encyclopedia
Events
- In Britain, the Academy of Vocal Music is founded by Johann Christoph PepuschJohann Christoph PepuschJohann Christoph Pepusch , also known as John Christopher Pepusch and Dr Pepusch, was a German-born composer who spent most of his working life in England....
and others. - April 18 Possible premiere of Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
's St Mark Passion pasticheSt Mark Passion pasticheIn 1754, the musician and theorist Lorenz Christoph Mizler published as an addendum in the most recent volume of his Neu eröffnete musikalische Bibliothek a series of three obituaries of recently deceased members of his Korrespondierende Sozietät der Musicalischen Wissenschaften...
at the chapel of Wilhelmsburg Castle (two movements by Bach).
Classical music
- Louis-Nicolas ClérambaultLouis-Nicolas ClérambaultLouis-Nicolas Clérambault was a French musician, best known as an organist and composer. He was born and died in Paris.-Biography:...
– Premier livre d'orgue contenant deux suites - Georg Frideric Handel – incidental music for The AlchemistThe Alchemist (Handel)The Alchemist, HWV 43, is incidental music used for the revival of Ben Jonson's play The Alchemist at the Queen's Theatre, London on 14 January 1710. The work is an arrangement, by an anonymous composer, of music written by Handel....
Opera
- Floriano Arresti – L'enigma disciolta
- Antonio Maria BononciniAntonio Maria BononciniAntonio Maria Bononcini was an Italian cellist and composer, the younger brother of the better-known Giovanni Battista Bononcini....
– Tigrane, re d'Armenia - André CampraAndré CampraAndré Campra was a French composer and conductor.Campra was one of the leading French opera composers in the period between Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Philippe Rameau. He wrote several tragédies en musique, but his chief claim to fame is as the creator of a new genre, opéra-ballet...
– Les Fêtes vénitiennes - Pietro Paolo Laurenti – Sabella mrosa d'Truvlin
- Johann MatthesonJohann MatthesonJohann Mattheson was a German composer, writer, lexicographer, diplomat and music theorist.Mattheson was born and died in Hamburg. He was a close friend of George Frideric Handel, although he nearly killed him in a sudden quarrel, during a performance of Mattheson's opera Cleopatra in 1704...
– Boris Goudenow
Births
- January 4 – Giovanni Battista PergolesiGiovanni Battista PergolesiGiovanni Battista Pergolesi was an Italian composer, violinist and organist.-Biography:Born at Iesi, Pergolesi studied music there under a local musician, Francesco Santini, before going to Naples in 1725, where he studied under Gaetano Greco and Francesco Feo among others...
, composer, violinist and organist (died 17361736 in music-Events:*January 21 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel gives a public concert in New York City, the first documented event of its kind. Pachelbel, son of the more famous Johann Pachelbel, settles in Charleston, South Carolina, where he works as an organist, harpsichordist, composer and music teacher for...
) - March 12 – Thomas Augustine ArneThomas Augustine ArneThomas Augustine Arne was a British composer, best known for the patriotic song Rule, Britannia!. He also wrote a version of God Save the King, which was to become the British national anthem, and the song A-Hunting We Will Go...
, composer (died 17781778 in music- Classical music :*François Joseph Gossec – Symphonie concertante en fa majeur n° 2, à plusieurs instruments*Joseph Haydn – Little Organ Mass*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony No...
) - March 27 – Joseph AbacoJoseph AbacoJoseph Abaco was a Belgian violoncellist and composer...
, violoncellist and composer (died 18051805 in music-Events:* Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, Eroica is premiered in Vienna on 1805-04-07.* Beethoven's opera Leonore is premiered in Vienna.*Louis Spohr is appointed musical director to the court of Gotha....
) - April 12 – Caffarelli, castrato singer (died 17831783 in music-Events:*August 23 – Maria Anna Mozart marries Johann Baptist Franz von Berchtold.*John Broadwood patents a piano pedal in England-Classical music:*Ludwig van Beethoven: Three Sonatas in E-flat, F, and D...
) - November 22 – Wilhelm Friedemann BachWilhelm Friedemann BachWilhelm Friedemann Bach , the second child and eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach, was a German composer and performer...
, composer, eldest son of Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
(died 17841784 in music-Events:*March - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart gives the first performances of his Piano Concerto No. 15 at the Trattnerhof and Burgtheater in Vienna*April 29 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and violinist Regina Strinasacchi perform Mozart's Sonata in B flat for Violin and Keyboard for the first time, in the...
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- Giovanni Battista FerrandiniGiovanni Battista FerrandiniGiovanni Battista Ferrandini , an Italian composer of the Baroque and Classical eras, was born in Venice, Italy and died in Munich, at the age of 81....
, composer (died 1791) - Thomas GladwinThomas GladwinThomas Gladwin, , was an English composer and musician. He was an organist at Vauxhall Gardens, London, England for some time. Like many English musicians of the time, he seems to have been influenced by Domenico Scarlatti. Some of his harpsichord works have been recorded.-References:Newton,...
, organist and composer (died 1799) - Anton Joseph HampelAnton Joseph HampelAnton Joseph Hampel was a horn player who is generally credited with having developed, somewhere between 1750 and 1760, the technique of hand-stopping which allows natural horns to play fully chromatically...
, horn player (died 17711771 in music- Events :*Foundation of the Royal Theatre Ballet School in Copenhagen, Denmark.*The Chevalier de Saint-Georges is appointed maestro of the Concert des Amateurs in Paris....
) - George Alexander StevensGeorge Alexander StevensGeorge Alexander Stevens was an English actor, playwright, poet, and songwriter. He was born in the parish of St. Andrews, in Holborn, a neighbourhood of London...
, actor, poet and songwriter (died 17801780 in music- Events :*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes his opera Idomeneo at Munich.*The Danish national anthem, "Kong Kristian...", is first sung.*Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen goes into its third edition....
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- Giovanni Battista Ferrandini
- probable – Carlo Ferdinando LandolfiCarlo Ferdinando Landolfi-Personal History:Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi was a legendary, individual master luthier who was active in the Italian 18th century during the golden age of stringed instrument making....
, luthier (died 17711771 in music- Events :*Foundation of the Royal Theatre Ballet School in Copenhagen, Denmark.*The Chevalier de Saint-Georges is appointed maestro of the Concert des Amateurs in Paris....
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Deaths
- May 10 – Georg Dietrich LeydingGeorg Dietrich LeydingGeorg Dietrich Leyding was a German composer and organist associated with the North German school.Born in Bücken, close to Nienburg, his father was a riding master in the French lifeguards...
, organist and composer (born 1664) - June 14 – Johann Friedrich AlbertiJohann Friedrich AlbertiJohann Friedrich Alberti was a German composer and organist.He received his musical training in Leipzig from Werner Fabricius and in Dresden from Vincenzo Albrici...
, German composer and organist (born 16421642 in music-Events:*Bartolomeo Montalbano becomes Kapellmeister at San Francesco in Bologna.-Opera:* Francesco Cavalli – Amore innamorato* Claudio Monteverdi – L'incoronazione di Poppea* Luigi Rossi – Il Palazzo incantato-Births:...
) - July 8 – Juan García de SalazarJuan García de SalazarTo be distinguished from Antonio de Salazar, a choirmaster at the cathedral in Mexico City.Juan García de Salazar was a Spanish baroque composer best remembered for his choral works in the stile antico, though a few Spanish works in a more modern style have also survived.Salazar was born in...
, choral composer (b. 1639) - September 26 – Cardinal Vincenzo GrimaniVincenzo GrimaniVincenzo Grimani was an Italian cardinal, diplomat, and opera librettist.Grimani was born either in Venice or Mantua....
, opera librettist - November 22 – Bernardo PasquiniBernardo Pasquiniright|thumb|Bernardo PasquiniBernardo Pasquini was an Italian composer of opera and church music.He was born at Massa in Val di Nievole . He was a pupil of Antonio Cesti and Loreto Vittori...
, composer (born 16371637 in music-Events:*The first public opera house, Teatro San Cassiano, opens in Venice*Johann Jakob Froberger travels to Rome to study under Girolamo Frescobaldi*Delphin Strungk becomes organist at the Marienkirche in Brunswick....
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- Charles MoutonCharles MoutonCharles Mouton was a famous French lutenist and lute composer.There is only little information known about him. He was born probably in Rouen, studied probably with Denis Gaultier and early in his career, he worked at the court of the dukes of Savoy in Turin. In the 1660s, he taught lute Paris...
, composer and lutenist (born c. 1626) - Gaspar SanzGaspar SanzGaspar Sanz was an Aragonese composer, guitarist, organist and priest born to a wealthy family in Calanda in the Spanish comarca of Bajo Aragón. He studied music, theology and philosophy at the University of Salamanca, where he was later appointed Professor of Music...
, priest and composer (born 1640)
- Charles Mouton
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- Rosa Giacinta BadallaRosa Giacinta BadallaRosa Giacinta Badalla was an Italian composer and Benedictine nun. The first record of her is in the lists of the monastery of Saint Radegonda in Milan from 1678...
, Benedictine nun and composer (born c.1660) - Marcus MeibomiusMarcus MeibomiusMarcus Meibomius was a Danish general scholar. Best known now as a historian of music, he was an antiquarian and librarian, and also a philologist and mathematician....
, historian of music (born c. 1630) - Camilla de RossiCamilla de RossiCamilla de Rossi was an Italian composer. Several women are known to have composed music in Northern Italy and Austria during the period 1670-1725. Of those women, though there is no remaining biographical information, Camilla de Rossi by far has the most surviving works. The only known...
, composer
- Rosa Giacinta Badalla