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^{[clarification needed]} 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.

Popular music

Richard Leveridge – "The Roast Beef of Old England"

Classical music

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Flute Sonata in G major, H.550
- Trio Sonata in A minor, H.572
Johann Sebastian Bach
- Concerto nach italienischen Gusto
- Overture nach französischer Art
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
- 3 Fugues for Organ with Pedal
- Harpsichord Concerto in D major, F.41
Jean-Baptiste Barrière – 6 Cello Sonatas, Book II
Antonio Caldara – Gesù presentato nel tempio
Louis-Claude Daquin – Pièces de Clavecin
Johann Friedrich Fasch – Oboe Concerto, FaWV L:d2
Francesco Geminiani – 6 Concerti Grossi after Corelli's Trio Sonatas
Christoph Graupner
- Trio Sonata in C major, GWV 202
- Trio Sonata in B-flat major, GWV 217
- Bassoon Concerto in C major, GWV 301
Maurice Greene – Lesson in F major, G minor
Johann Adolph Hasse
- Miserere in C minor
- 6 Trio Sonatas, Op. 2
George Frideric Handel
- Organ Concerto in G minor, HWV 289
- Organ Concerto in F major, HWV 292
Pietro Antonio Locatelli – 6 Introduttioni teatrali e 6 Concerti grossi, Op. 4
Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville – 6 Violin Sonatas, Op. 4 'Les sons harmoniques'
Giovanni Batista Pergolesi – Orfeo, P.115 (secular cantata)
Nicola Porpora – 12 Cantate da camera (Dedicated: All' Altezza reale di Federico Prencipe reale di Vallia)
Johann Christian Schickhardt – L'Alphabet de la Musique, Op. 30
Georg Philipp Telemann
- 12 Fantasias for Viol without Bass, TWV 40:26–37 (Hamburg: [Telemann])
- 6 Sonates corellisantes, for two violins or flutes and basso continuo (Hamburg: [Telemann])
Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri – 12 Concerti, Op. 1
Jan Dismas Zelenka – Gesù al Calvario (oratorio)

Opera

Antonio Caldara – Scipione Africano
Egidio Romualdo Duni – Nerone
François Francœur and François Rebel – Scanderberg
George Frideric Handel
- Ariodante, HWV 33 (first performed)
- Alcina, HWV 34
- Atalanta, HWV 35 (composed, performed 1736)
Johann Adolf Hasse – Tito Vespasiano
Leonardo Leo – Demofoonte (in collaboration with Giuseppe Sellitto, Francesco Mancini and Domenico Sarro)
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
- Il Flaminio
- L'Olimpiade (first performed, composed 1734)
Nicola Antonio Porpora
- Ifigenia In Aulide
- Polifemo
Jean-Philippe Rameau – Les Indes galantes (opéra-ballet)
Francesco Maria Veracini – Adriano In Siria
Antonio Vivaldi
- Adelaide, RV 695 (lost)
- Bajazet, RV 703 (Pasticcio with music by Riccardo Broschi, Geminiano Giacomelli and Johann Adolph Hasse)
- Griselda, RV 718

Publications

George Frideric Handel – 6 Fugues, HWV 605–610
Reinhard Keiser – Dialogus von der Geburt Christi
Johann Mattheson – Die wol-klingende Finger-Sprache (Hamburg: Composer)
Georg Philipp Telemann – Fugierende und verändernde Choräle, TWV 31:1–48

Methods and Theory Writings

Johann Mattheson – Kleine General-Baß-Schule

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 1 – James Lyon I (died 1794)
June 6 – Anton Schweitzer, opera composer (died 1787)
July 10 – Giovanni Bertati (died 1815)
September 5 – Johann Christian Bach, composer (died 1782)
October 30 – Edward Miller (died 1807)
November 17 – Antoine Alexandre Henri Poinsinet (died 1769)
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)
January 29 – George Granville (born 1666)
February 27 – John Arbuthnot (born 1667)
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)