# 1735 in music

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

## Events

* January 12 – Death of British composer John Eccles; he is succeeded as Master of the King's Musick by Maurice Greene.
* February 18 – John Hippisley's English ballad opera Flora becomes the first opera performed in the United States – at Charleston, South Carolina.
* April 8 – Johann Sebastian Bach revives the anonymous St Luke Passion BWV 246 (BC D 6) at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
* October 25 – Death of Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough; shortly before this he has acknowledged opera singer Anastasia Robinson as his wife.

## 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, composer (died 1794)
* June 6 – Anton Schweitzer, opera composer (died 1787)
* July 10 – Giovanni Bertati, librettist (died 1815)
* September 5 – Johann Christian Bach, composer (died 1782)
* September 6 – John Joseph Merlin, born Jean-Joseph Merlin, clock- and musical-instrument-maker and inventor (died 1803)
* October 30 – Edward Miller, composer (died 1807)
* November 17 – Antoine-Alexandre-Henri Poinsinet, librettist (drowned 1769)
* November 26 – Giambattista Varesco, priest, musician, poet and librettist (died 1805)
* date unknown – Franz Anton Spitzeder, operatic tenor and keyboard teacher (died 1796)

## Deaths

* January 12 – John Eccles, composer (born 1668)
* February 27 – John Arbuthnot, patron (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 – Jean-Nicolas de Francine, director of the Opéra national de Paris (born 1662)