# 1724 in music

The year 1724 in music involved some significant musical events.

## Events

* Johann Sebastian Bach composes the Sanctus for his later Mass in B minor.
* John Frederick Lampe arrives in Britain.
* Joseph Bodin de Boismortier moves to Paris from Perpignan.
* Agostino Steffani is elected honorary president of the Academy of Antient Musick in London.
* Johann Adolph Hasse arrives in Naples.
* The Le Saraste violin is made by Antonio Stradivari (now owned by the Real Concervatorio Superior de Música in Madrid, Spain).
* In Rome, Domenico Scarlatti meets Farinelli and Johann Joachim Quantz.
* Marriage of the daughter of music publisher Jean-Baptiste-Christophe Ballard to the printer François Boivin.
* Sébastien de Brossard's collection of manuscripts is bought by King Louis XV of France.
* Renatus Harris builds his last organ, that of St Dionis Backchurch in the City of London.
* 7 April Johann Sebastian Bach premieres his St John Passion (BWV 245, BC D 2a) at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.

## Published music

* Attilio Ariosti
** 6 Cantatas (London)
** 6 Lessons, for viola d'amore and basso continuo (London)
* Francesco Barsanti – Sonate [6], for recorder or violin and continuo, Op. 1 (London)
* Joseph Bodin de Boismortier – Cantates françoises (Les Quatre Saisons) (four cantatas for solo voice, various instruments, and basso continuo), Op. 5 (Paris)
* François Couperin – Les goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux concerts (Paris)
* William Croft – Musica sacra
* Jean-François Dandrieu – Pièces de clavecin, Book 1
* Francesco Mancini – XII Solos for recorder and continuo (London)
* Thomas Marc – Suitte de pièces de dessus et de pardessus de viole
* Benedetto Marcello – Estro poetico-armonico: parafrasi sopra li primi venticinque salmi, vols. 1–4 (Venice: Appresso Domenico Lovisa)
* Jean-Philippe Rameau – Pieces de Clavessin

## Classical music

* Johann Sebastian Bach
** Wo soll ich fliehen hin, BWV 5
** Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7
** Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben?, BWV 8
** Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10
** St John Passion (first performance at St. Nicolaikirche in Leipzig)
** Wer da gläubet und getauft wird, BWV 37
** Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir, BWV 38
** Sie werden euch in den Bann tun, BWV 44
** Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV 96
** Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 99
** Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101
** Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104
** Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 116
** Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 121
** Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BWV 135
** Wo gehest du hin, BWV 166
** Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV 180
** Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister, BWV 181
** Erwünschtes Freudenlicht, BWV 184
* George Frideric Handel – Silete venti, HWV 242
* Turlough O'Carolan – John Drury (composed for the wedding of a local couple, John Drury and Elizabeth Goldsmith)
* Jan Dismas Zelenka – De profundis, ZWV 97

## Opera

* Attilio Ariosti
** Artaserse (London, King's Theatre, 1 December)
** Aquilio consolo (London, King's Theatre, 21 May)
** Vespasiano (London, King's Theatre, 14 January)
* Antonio Caldara – Gianguir
* George Frideric Handel
** Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar), HWV 17
** Tamerlano (Tamburlaine), HWV 18
* Dominico Sarro – Didone abbandonata
* Leonardo Vinci
** Eraclea
** Farnace
** Ifigenia in Tauride
** La Rosmira fedele
** Turno Aricino
* Antonio Vivaldi
** Il Giustino RV 717
** La virtù trionfante dell'amore e dell'odio, ovvero il Tigrane, RV 740 (co-composed with Benedetto Micheli and Nicola Romaldi)

## Theoretical writings

* Edward Betts – An Introduction to the Skill of Musick
* Tomás Pereira – Lulu Zhengyi Xubian
* William Turner – Sound Anatomiz’d in A Philosophical Essay on Musick

## Births

* February 26 – Gottfried Heinrich Bach, mentally handicapped son of Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1763)
* July 18 – Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria, composer, singer, harpsichordist and patron (d. 1780)
* August 28 – Diamante Medaglia Faini, Italian poet and composer (died 1770)
* August 29 – Giovanni Battista Casti, opera librettist (died 1803)
* September 14 – Ignaz Vitzthumb, composer and conductor (died 1816)
* October 1 – Giovanni Battista Cirri, cellist and composer (died 1808)
* December 8 – Claude Balbastre, organist, harpsichordist and composer (died 1799)
* date unknown – Joan Rossell, Catalan composer (died 1780)

## Deaths

* March 7 – Wolfgang Nicolaus Pertl, musician and grandfather of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
* May 21 – Antonio Salvi, librettist for Vivaldi (born 1664)
* June 7 (buried) – Johann Hugo von Wilderer, composer (born c.1670)
* June 24 – Johann Theile, singer and composer (born 1646)
* August 24 – Andreas Kneller, composer (born 1649)
* probable
** John Abell, countertenor, composer and lutenist (born 1653)
** Antonio Quintavalle, opera composer