# 1731 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1731.

## Events

* The Academy of Vocal Music changes its name to the Academy of Ancient Music.
* Jean-Philippe Rameau meets his patron, La Pouplinière.
* Antonio Stradivari makes a viola that will be owned a hundred years later by Niccolò Paganini.
* Antonio Vivaldi returns to Venice.
* March 23 Johann Sebastian Bach premieres his St Mark Passion BWV 247 (BC D 4) at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.

## Classical music

* William Babell – Prelude in F major, IWB 10
* Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach
** Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, H. 2, Wq. 62/1
** Trio Sonata in D minor, H. 569, Wq. 145 (formerly attributed to J.S. Bach as BWV 1036)
** Trio Sonata in C major, H. 571, Wq. 147
* Johann Sebastian Bach
** Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29
** Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt, BWV 112 (premiered Apr. 8 in Leipzig)
** Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229
** Wachet auf, BWV 140 (premiered Nov. 25 in Leipzig)
** Orchestral Suite No.3 in D major, BWV 1068
* Jean Barrière – Sonatas for Pardessus de viole, Livre 5
* Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
** 6 Gentillesses en 3 parties, Op. 33
** 6 Sonates à quatre parties, Op. 34
** 6 Suites de pièces, Op.35
* Louis de Caix d'Hervelois
** Collection of flute pieces
** 4 Suites de pièces pour la viole, Op. 3
* Antonio Caldara – David umiliato
* Louis-Antoine Dornel – Pièces de clavecin
* Christoph Graupner
** Trio Sonata in E minor, GWV 209
** Flute Concerto in D major, GWV 312
** Concerto for Flute d'amore, Oboe d'amore and Viola d'amore in G major, GWV 333
* George Frideric Handel – Minuet in G major, HWV 530
* Michele Mascitti – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 8
* Johann Joachim Quantz – 6 Flute Sonatas, RISM Q. 33
* Giuseppe Tartini
** Pastorale in A major, B.A16
** Violin Sonata in G major, B.G17
** Violin Sonata in G minor, B.g10 "Didone abbandonata"
* Georg Philipp Telemann
** Abscheuliche Tiefe des großen Verderbens, TWV 1:9
** Der mit Sünden beleidigte Heiland, TWV 1:306
** Nach Finsternis und Todesschatten, TWV 1:1150
** Fortsetzung des Harmonischen Gottes-Dienstes
* Jan Dismas Zelenka – Missa Sancti Josephi, ZWV 14

## Opera

* Tommaso Albinoni – Fano
* Francesco Corradini – Con amor non hay libertad
* Francesco Corselli – Venere placata
* Carl Heinrich Graun – Iphigenia in Aulis
* George Frideric Handel
** Poro, re dell'Indie, HWV 28
** Rinaldo, HWV 7b (revised 1711 version)
* Johann Adolf Hasse
** Cajo Fabricio
** Cleofide
* Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – La conversione e morte di San Guglielmo
* Nicola Porpora – Poro
* Antonio Vivaldi – Semiramide, RV 733

## Theoretical publications

* Johann Mattheson – Grosse General-Baß-Schule

## Births

* August 4 – Giuseppe Colla, composer (died 1806)
* November 27 – Gaetano Pugnani, composer (died 1798)
* December 8 – František Xaver Dušek, harpsichordist, pianist and composer (died 1799)
* December 28 – Christian Cannabich, composer (died 1798)

## Deaths

* January 27 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, inventor of an early form of piano (born 1655)
* May 1 (buried) – Johann Ludwig Bach, violinist and composer (born 1677)
* July 5 (buried) – Jakob Greber, composer and musician (date of birth unknown)
* November – Johann Caspar Wilcke, musician and father of Anna Magdalena Bach
* December 26 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, librettist (born 1672)