1714 in music
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The year 1714 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- March 2 â Johann Sebastian Bach is appointed Konzertmeister at Weimar, having declined a post at Halle.[1]
- A school of dance opens at the Paris Opera.
- Michel Richard Delalande assumes full control of the French royal chapel upon the retirement of his last co-sous maîtres.[2]
- Francesco Geminiani arrives in London, where he obtains the patronage of William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex.
- Melchior Hoffmann, composer, marries Margaretha Elisabeth Philipp; he is already suffering from a terminal illness.
- Domenico Scarlatti becomes maestro di cappella at the Cappella Giulia in the Vatican.
- Francesco Maria Veracini visits London and performs at the Queen's Theatre.
- The first permanent church organ in the United States, the Brattle organ, imported by Thomas Brattle,[3] is installed in Boston at King's Chapel.[4]
- John Tufts publishes the first instructional book for singing in the USA.
- Gottfried Silbermann completes the new organ for Freiberg Cathedral.[5]
Classical music
- Pirro Capacelli Conte Albergati â Cantate et oratorii spirituali, Op. 10
- William Babell â Prelude in G major from the Frontispiece
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12 (movement 2 would later form the Crucifixus movement of his Mass in B minor)
- Widerstehe doch der Sünde, BWV 54
- Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV Anh. 55
- Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61
- Christen, ätzet diesen Tag, BWV 63
- Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn, BWV 152
- Erschallet, ihr Lieder, BWV 172
- Himmelskönig, sei willkommen, BWV 182
- Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199
- Kleines harmonisches Labyrinth, BWV 591 (Now attributed to Johann David Heinichen)
- Organ Concerto in E-flat major, BWV 597
- The Little Organ Book
- Toccata in C minor, BWV 911
- Toccata in G major, BWV 916
- Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, BWV 944
- Aria variata in A minor, BWV 989
- Violin Sonata in E minor, BWV 1023
- Antonio Caldara â Laboravi in gemitu meo
- André Campra â Enée et Didon
- Giovanni Maria Casini â Pensieri per Organo
- Arcangelo Corelli
- Christmas Concerto
- Twelve concerti grossi, Op. 6, published posthumously
- François Couperin â Leçons de ténèbres
- Henri Desmarets â Grands Motets
- Christoph Graupner â Mir hat die Welt trüglich gericht, GWV 1103/14
- George Frideric Handel â Te Deum in D major, HWV 278
- Johann Ernst Prinz von Sachsen-Weimar â Violin Concerto in G major
- Reinhard Keiser â Musicalische Land-Lust
- Jean-Baptiste Loeillet â 12 Recorder Sonatas, Op. 2
- Johann Mattheson â Harmonisches Denckmahl (12 Harpsichord suites)
- Santiago de Murcia â Resumen de acompañar la parte con la guitarra
- James Paisible â The Godolphin. Mr. Isaac's new dance, made for Her Majesty's Birth Day, 1714...
- André Raison â Deuxième livre d'orgue
- Jean-Féry Rebel â Les caractères de la danse
- Alessandro Scarlatti â S. Filippo Neri (oratorio)
- Jean-Baptiste Stuck â Héraclite et Démocrite
- Franz Mathias Techelmann â Toccate, Canzoni, Ricercari et altre Galanterie
- Georg Philipp Telemann â Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, TWV 1:1175
- Giuseppe Valentini â 12 Allettamenti da Camera, Op. 8
Opera
- Leonardo Leo â Pisistrato
- Jean-Baptiste Matho â Arion (tragédie en musique)
- Jean-Joseph Mouret
- Les Amours de Ragonde
- Les Fêtes ou Le Triomphe de Thalie
- Nicola Porpora â Arianna e Teseo
- Alessandro Scarlatti â Lâamor generoso
- Antonio Vivaldi â Orlando finto pazzo, RV 727
Births
- January 1 â Giovanni Battista Mancini, soprano castrato, voice teacher (died 1800)[6]
- February â Susannah Maria Cibber, singer and actress, daughter of Thomas Arne (died 1766)[7]
- February 2 â Gottfried August Homilius, composer, cantor and organist (died 1785)[8]
- February 28 â Gioacchino Conti, soprano castrato opera singer (died 1761)
- March 8 â Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (died 1788)[9]
- April 16 â Pedro António Avondano, Portuguese composer
- May 6 â Anton Raaff, tenor (died 1797)
- May 12 â Johan Daniel Berlin composer (died 1787)
- July 2 â Christoph Willibald Gluck (died 1787)[10]
- September 10 â Niccolò Jommelli, composer (died 1774)[11]
- December 23 â Ranieri de' Calzabigi, librettist collaborating with Gluck (died 1795)
- date unknown
- Antonio Besozzi, Italian oboist and composer (died 1781)
- Abade António da Costa, Portuguese composer (died 1780)[12]
- Johan Foltmar, composer (died 1794)
- Christian Gottlob Hubert, builder of keyboard instruments (died 1793)
- Edmund Pascha, organist and composer (died 1772)
- probable â Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi, luthier (died 1771)
Deaths
- January 4 â Atto Melani, opera singer (born 1626)[13]
- April 17 â Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer (born 1657)[14]
- August 25 â Johann Georg Kühnhausen, composer (date of birth unknown)
- September 3 â Pietro Antonio Fiocco, composer (born 1654)
- November 13 â Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, organist (born 1632)
- date unknown â Benito Bello de Torices, Spanish composer, maestro at the Convent of Las Descalzas Reales (born c.1660)