# 1734 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1734.

## Events

* March 29 – Louis-Gabriel Guillemain becomes first violinist at the Royal Academy in Dijon.
* April 23 – Johann Sebastian Bach gives the Leipzig première of Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel's Passion Oratorio Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.
* The London subscription company called the Royal Academy of Music is wound up as a result of difficulties including arguments between Handel and his singers.
* Approximate date of the William Dixon manuscript of music for the Border pipes.

## Classical music

* Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Harpsichord Concerto in E-flat major, H.404
* Johann Michael Bach – Fürchtet euch nicht
* Johann Sebastian Bach – 3 Choräle zu Trauungen, BWV 250–252
* Antonio Caldara – Il giuoco del quadriglio
* Christoph Graupner
** Ouverture in G major, GWV 466
** Tut Busse und lasse sich ein jeglicher, GWV 1104/34
** Herr, die Wasserströme erheben sich, GWV 1115/34
* George Frideric Handel – Antiphons, HWV 269–274
* Johann Adolf Hasse – Il cantico de' tre fanciulli
* Giovanni Battista Martini – Litaniae atque antiphonae finales B. V. Mariae
* Johann Joachim Quantz – 6 Flute Sonatas, RISM Q.19
* Georg Reutter – La Betulia liberata
* Georg Philipp Telemann
** 6 Concerts et 6 Suites
** Pyrmonter Kurwoche
** 12 Solos à violon ou traversiere avec la basse chiffrée
* Antonio Vivaldi
** Violin Concerto in C major, RV 177
** Vengo a voi, luci adorate, RV 682

## Opera

* Francesco Araia – La forza dell'amore e dell'odio
* Riccardo Broschi – Artaserse (collaboration with Hasse, Ariosti)
* Antonio Caldara
** La Clemenza di Tito
** Le Lodi d'Augusto
* Giovanni Battista Costanzi – La Flora
* Geminiano Giacomelli – Merope
* George Frideric Handel
** Il pastor fido, HWV 8b/c (revised from the 1712 version)
** Arianna in Creta, HWV 32 (premiered)
** Ariodante, HWV 33
** Parnasso in festa, HWV 73 (Serenade)
* Johann Adolf Hasse – Larinda e Vanesio (intermezzo)
* Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – Adriano in Siria
* Antonio Vivaldi – L'Olimpiade
* Various – Siface (inc. work from Giuseppe Sellitto, Nicola Antonio Porpora, Leonardo Vinci, Geminiano Giacomelli, Johann Adolph Hasse)

## Publications

* Johann Sebastian Bach – 149 Chorales, D-LEb Peters Ms. R 18
* Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
** 6 Sonates dont la derniere est en trio, Op. 50
** 6 Sonatas for Flute and Violin, Op. 51
** 4 Balets de village en trio, Op. 52
* Michel Corrette – Premier Livre de Pièces pour le Clavecin, Op. 12
* Jean-François Dandrieu – Pieces de clavecin, Book 3
* Pierre Février – Pièces de clavecin, Livre 1
* George Frideric Handel – Op. 3, 6 concerti grossi (London: John Walsh)
* Jean-Marie Leclair – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 5
* Johann Melchior Molter – Sonata grossa in D major, MWV 4.5
* Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville – 6 Trio Sonatas, Op. 2
* Jean-Baptiste Morin – La chasse du cerf
* Giovanni Battista Somis – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 6
* Giuseppe Tartini – Violin Sonatas, Op. 1
* Georg Philipp Telemann – Verzeichniß der Telemannischen Musikalischen Werke
* Carlo Tessarini – Il maestro e discepolo, Op. 2

## Births

* January 17 – François-Joseph Gossec (died 1829)
* February 20 – Franz Ignaz Beck (died 1809)
* March 18 – Joseph Schmitt (died 1791)
* April 19 – Karl von Ordoñez, composer (died 1786)
* May 28 – Christoph Sonnleithner (died 1786)
* June 19 – Alphonse du Congé Dubreuil (died 1801)
* June 28 – Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier, organist and composer (died 1794)
* July 15 – Johann Ernst Altenburg (died 1801)
* July 20 – Jean-Henri Naderman (died 1799)
* July 23 – Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini, composer (died 1786)
* August 16 – Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Théodore de Tschudi (died 1784)
* September 5 – Jean-Benjamin de Laborde (died 1794)
* September 25 – Louis-René-Édouard de Rohan (died 1803)
* December 18 – Jean-Baptiste Rey, conductor and composer (died 1810)
* December 27 – Stephen Paxton (died 1787)
* December 31 – Claude Joseph Dorat (died 1780)
* date unknown – Benjamin Cooke, organist, composer and teacher (died 1793)

## Deaths

* February 25 – Marianna Bulgarelli, operatic soprano (born c. 1684)
* April 1 – Louis Lully, composer (born 1664)
* April 30 – Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki, Baroque composer (born c. 1665)
* June 13 – Nicolaus Vetter, organist and composer (born 1666)
* October 6 – Gottfried Reiche, trumpet player and composer (born 1667)
* December 17 – Charlotte Brent, operatic soprano (died 1802)
* date unknown – Obadiah Shuttleworth, violinist, organist and composer