1735 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1735.

Events

• February 18 – Flora becomes the first opera performed in the United States – at Charleston, South Carolina.
• Maurice Greene is appointed Master of the King's Musick.
• Shortly before his death, Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough, acknowledges opera singer Anastasia Robinson as his wife.
• April 8 Johann Sebastian Bach revives the anonymous St Luke Passion BWV 246 (BC D 6) at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.

Classical music

• Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Concerto nach italienischen Gusto
  • Overture nach französischer Art
• Wilhelm Friedemann Bach – 3 Fugues for Organ with Pedal
• Jan Dismas Zelenka – Gesù al Calvario (oratorio)

Opera

• Egidio Romualdo Duni – Nerone
• George Frideric Handel
  • Ariodante
  • Alcina
• Leonardo Leo – Demofoonte; Demetrio
• Jean-Philippe Rameau – Les Indes galantes (opéra-ballet)
• Francesco Maria Veracini – Adriano In Siria
• Nicola Antonio Porpora – Polifemo; Ifigenia In Aulide
• Johann Adolf Hasse – Tito Vespasiano
• Antonio Vivaldi – Griselda; L'Adelaide; Il Bajazet
• Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – L'Olimpiade
• Antonio Caldara – Scipione Africano

Births

• January 21 – Johann Gottfried Eckard, pianist and composer (died 1809)
• February 25 – Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, composer (died 1792)
• February 28 – Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, musician, mathematician and chemist (died 1796)
• May 13 – Horace Coignet, composer (died 1821)
• June 6 – Anton Schweitzer, opera composer (died 1787)
• September 5 – Johann Christian Bach, composer (died 1782)
• November 26 – Giambattista Varesco, priest, musician, poet and librettist (died 1805)
• date unknown
  • Charlotte Brent, operatic soprano (died 1802)
  • Franz Anton Spitzeder, operatic tenor and keyboard teacher (died 1796)

Deaths

• January 12 – John Eccles, composer (born 1668)
• March 24 – Georg Friedrich Kaufmann, organist and composer (born 1679)
• June 22 – Pirro Albergati, aristocrat and amateur composer (born 1663)
• July 18 – Johann Krieger, organist and composer (born 1649)
• November 2 – Šimon Brixi, composer (born 1693)
• date unknown
  • Quirino Colombani, musician, composer and music teacher (date of birth unknown)
  • Jean-Nicolas de Francine, director of the Opéra national de Paris (born 1662)