1714 in music

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The year 1714 in music involved some significant events.

Events

March 2 – 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 – Cantate et oratorii spirituali, Op. 10
William Babell – 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
  - Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland, BWV 599
  - Gott, durch deine Güte, BWV 600
  - Lob sei dem allmächtigen Gott, BWV 602
  - Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 604
  - Vom Himmel kam der Engel Schaar, BWV 607
  - Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten, BWV 642
  - Alle Menschen müssen sterben, BWV 643
- 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 – Laboravi in gemitu meo
André Campra – Enée et Didon
Giovanni Maria Casini – Pensieri per Organo
Arcangelo Corelli
- Christmas Concerto
- Twelve concerti grossi, Op. 6, published posthumously
François Couperin – Leçons de ténèbres
Henri Desmarets – Grands Motets
Christoph Graupner – Mir hat die Welt trüglich gericht, GWV 1103/14
George Frideric Handel – Te Deum in D major, HWV 278
Johann Ernst Prinz von Sachsen-Weimar – Violin Concerto in G major
Reinhard Keiser – Musicalische Land-Lust
Jean-Baptiste Loeillet – 12 Recorder Sonatas, Op. 2
Johann Mattheson – Harmonisches Denckmahl (12 Harpsichord suites)
Santiago de Murcia – Resumen de acompañar la parte con la guitarra
James Paisible – The Godolphin. Mr. Isaac's new dance, made for Her Majesty's Birth Day, 1714...
André Raison – Deuxième livre d'orgue
Jean-Féry Rebel – Les caractères de la danse
Alessandro Scarlatti – S. Filippo Neri (oratorio)
Jean-Baptiste Stuck – Héraclite et Démocrite
Franz Mathias Techelmann – Toccate, Canzoni, Ricercari et altre Galanterie
Georg Philipp Telemann – Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, TWV 1:1175
Giuseppe Valentini – 12 Allettamenti da Camera, Op. 8

Opera

Leonardo Leo – Pisistrato
Jean-Baptiste Matho – Arion (tragédie en musique)
Jean-Joseph Mouret
- Les Amours de Ragonde
- Les Fêtes ou Le Triomphe de Thalie
Nicola Porpora – Arianna e Teseo
Alessandro Scarlatti – L’amor generoso
Antonio Vivaldi – Orlando finto pazzo, RV 727

Births

January 1 – Giovanni Battista Mancini, soprano castrato, voice teacher (died 1800)^[6]
February – Susannah Maria Cibber, singer and actress, daughter of Thomas Arne (died 1766)^[7]
February 2 – Gottfried August Homilius, composer, cantor and organist (died 1785)^[8]
February 28 – Gioacchino Conti, soprano castrato opera singer (died 1761)
March 8 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (died 1788)^[9]
April 16 – Pedro António Avondano, Portuguese composer
May 6 – Anton Raaff, tenor (died 1797)
May 12 – Johan Daniel Berlin composer (died 1787)
July 2 – Christoph Willibald Gluck (died 1787)^[10]
September 10 – Niccolò Jommelli, composer (died 1774)^[11]
December 23 – 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 – Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi, luthier (died 1771)

Deaths

January 4 – Atto Melani, opera singer (born 1626)^[13]
April 17 – Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer (born 1657)^[14]
August 25 – Johann Georg Kühnhausen, composer (date of birth unknown)
September 3 – Pietro Antonio Fiocco, composer (born 1654)
November 13 – Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, organist (born 1632)
date unknown – Benito Bello de Torices, Spanish composer, maestro at the Convent of Las Descalzas Reales (born c.1660)

References

^ J S Bach timeline. Archived 2012-02-26 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 7 March 2013
^ Palisca, Claude V. (1991) [1968]. Baroque Music. Prentice Hall History of Music (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. p. 283. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.
^ Elson, The History of American Music, pg. 10
^ Southern, pg. 24
^ The Great Silbermann Organ. Accessed 7 March 2013
^ Johann Adam Hiller (12 April 2001). Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation by Johann Adam Hiller. Cambridge University Press. p. 170. ISBN 978-1-139-42898-9.
^ Lewis Saul Benjamin (1969). Stage Favourites of the Eighteenth Century. Books for Libraries Press. p. 195.
^ David Paul Held (1976). Chorale Preludes Composed in the Eighteenth Century for Organ and a Solo Instrument. University of Southern California. p. 84.
^ Martin Petzoldt (2008). Bach's children in Leipzig: documents in Johann Sebastian Bach's own hand. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt. p. 26. ISBN 978-3-374-02505-3.
^ Collected correspondence and papers of Christoph Willibald Gluck. 1962. p. 1.
^ The Church Music of Davide Perez and Niccolò Jommelli. Mauricio Dottori. p. 11. ISBN 978-85-98826-19-6.
^ Livermore, H. V. (1 November 2004). Portugal: a traveller's history. Boydell Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-84383-063-4. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
^ Rita Monaldi; Francesco Sorti (6 June 2013). Veritas. Birlinn. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-85790-570-3.
^ Paul E. Eisler (1972). World Chronology of Music History: 1594-1684. Oceana Publications. p. 363. ISBN 978-0-379-16082-6.

[1] J S Bach timeline. Archived 2012-02-26 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 7 March 2013

[2] Palisca, Claude V. (1991) [1968]. Baroque Music. Prentice Hall History of Music (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. p. 283. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.

[3] Elson, The History of American Music, pg. 10

[Southern24-4] Southern, pg. 24

[5] The Great Silbermann Organ. Accessed 7 March 2013

[6] Johann Adam Hiller (12 April 2001). Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation by Johann Adam Hiller. Cambridge University Press. p. 170. ISBN 978-1-139-42898-9.

[7] Lewis Saul Benjamin (1969). Stage Favourites of the Eighteenth Century. Books for Libraries Press. p. 195.

[8] David Paul Held (1976). Chorale Preludes Composed in the Eighteenth Century for Organ and a Solo Instrument. University of Southern California. p. 84.

[9] Martin Petzoldt (2008). Bach's children in Leipzig: documents in Johann Sebastian Bach's own hand. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt. p. 26. ISBN 978-3-374-02505-3.

[10] Collected correspondence and papers of Christoph Willibald Gluck. 1962. p. 1.

[11] The Church Music of Davide Perez and Niccolò Jommelli. Mauricio Dottori. p. 11. ISBN 978-85-98826-19-6.

[12] Livermore, H. V. (1 November 2004). Portugal: a traveller's history. Boydell Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-84383-063-4. Retrieved 14 July 2011.

[13] Rita Monaldi; Francesco Sorti (6 June 2013). Veritas. Birlinn. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-85790-570-3.

[14] Paul E. Eisler (1972). World Chronology of Music History: 1594-1684. Oceana Publications. p. 363. ISBN 978-0-379-16082-6.

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