1704 in music
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- Johann Christoph PepuschJohann Christoph PepuschJohann Christoph Pepusch , also known as John Christopher Pepusch and Dr Pepusch, was a German-born composer who spent most of his working life in England....
arrives in London. - Following her husband's death, Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre begins hosting concerts in her home.
- Antonio VivaldiAntonio VivaldiAntonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...
becomes general superintendent of music at the Ospedale della PietàOspedale della PietàThe Ospedale della Pietà was a convent, orphanage, and music school in Venice.Like other Venetian ospedali, the Pietà was established as a hostel for Crusaders...
, VeniceVeniceVenice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
. - Johann Jacob Bach becomes an oboist in the army of King Charles XII of SwedenCharles XII of SwedenCharles XII also Carl of Sweden, , Latinized to Carolus Rex, Turkish: Demirbaş Şarl, also known as Charles the Habitué was the King of the Swedish Empire from 1697 to 1718...
, inspiring Johann Sebastian to write a Capriccio on the Absence of His Most Beloved Brother. - During a performance of Johann MatthesonJohann MatthesonJohann Mattheson was a German composer, writer, lexicographer, diplomat and music theorist.Mattheson was born and died in Hamburg. He was a close friend of George Frideric Handel, although he nearly killed him in a sudden quarrel, during a performance of Mattheson's opera Cleopatra in 1704...
's opera, Cleopatra, the composer almost kills his friend, Georg Frideric Handel, in a violent quarrel.
Classical music
- Setting by Reinhard KeiserReinhard KeiserReinhard Keiser was a popular German opera composer based in Hamburg. He wrote over a hundred operas, and in 1745 Johann Adolph Scheibe considered him an equal to Johann Kuhnau, George Frideric Handel and Georg Philipp Telemann , but his work was largely forgotten for many...
of Der blutige und sterbende Jesus by Christian Friedrich HunoldChristian Friedrich HunoldChristian Friedrich Hunold was a German author who wrote under the pseudonym Menantes.- Biography :... - Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich (cantata) by Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
Opera
- Johann MatthesonJohann MatthesonJohann Mattheson was a German composer, writer, lexicographer, diplomat and music theorist.Mattheson was born and died in Hamburg. He was a close friend of George Frideric Handel, although he nearly killed him in a sudden quarrel, during a performance of Mattheson's opera Cleopatra in 1704...
– Die unglückselige Cleopatra - Carlo Francesco PollaroloCarlo Francesco PollaroloCarlo Francesco Pollarolo was an Italian composer, chiefly of operas. Born into a musical family, he became the cathedral organist of his home town of Brescia. In the 1680s he began composing operas for performance in nearby Venice. He wrote a total of 85 of them as well as 13 oratorios...
– Irene (revised by Domenico ScarlattiDomenico ScarlattiGiuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...
for performance at Naples).
Births
- May 7 – Carl Heinrich GraunCarl Heinrich GraunCarl Heinrich Graun was a German composer and tenor singer. Along with Johann Adolf Hasse, he is considered to be the most important German composer of Italian opera of his time.-Biography:...
, composer and singer (died 17591759 in music- Events :*Johann Friedrich Agricola succeeds Carl Heinrich Graun as director of Frederick the Great's royal opera.*Castrato Gaspare Pacchierotti makes his debut at the Perugia carnival, in a female role.*Tommaso Traetta becomes court composer at Parma....
) - June 11 – Carlos SeixasCarlos SeixasJosé António Carlos de Seixas, , was a Portuguese composer, the son of the cathedral organist, Francisco Vaz and Marcelina Nunes.Seixas was born in Coimbra...
, composer (died 17421742 in music- Events :*March 23 Johann Sebastian Bach revives his St Matthew Passion BWV 244 with some further revisions of instrumentation and voicing at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig...
) - October 2 – František TůmaFrantišek TumaFrantišek Ignác Antonín Tůma was an important Czech composer of the Baroque era...
, organist and composer (died 17741774 in music- Events :*Antonio Salieri is appointed court composer to the Emperor Joseph II.*Domenico Cimarosa is invited to Rome for the opera season.*Charles Burney writes A Plan for a Music School.*Pascal Taskin becomes keeper of the King's instruments....
) - December 31 – Carl Gotthelf GerlachCarl Gotthelf GerlachCarl Gotthelf Gerlach was a German organist, who took over the Leipzig Collegium Musicum from Johann Sebastian Bach between 1737 and 1739....
, organist (died 17611761 in music- Events :*Francesco Geminiani visits Dublin, where he is robbed of a valuable manuscript.*Domenico Cimarosa enters the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto.*Joseph Haydn enters the service of the Esterházy family- Opera :...
) - probable – Claude ParisotClaude ParisotClaude Parisot was a French organ builder. He came from a family of organ builders: his nephew Henri in turn built and repaired many instruments in Basse Normandie and Maine...
, organ builder (died 17841784 in music-Events:*March - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart gives the first performances of his Piano Concerto No. 15 at the Trattnerhof and Burgtheater in Vienna*April 29 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and violinist Regina Strinasacchi perform Mozart's Sonata in B flat for Violin and Keyboard for the first time, in the...
)
Deaths
- February 7 – Lady Mary DeringLady Mary DeringLady Mary Dering was an English composer. She was daughter of Daniel Harvey of Combe, Croydon, Surrey, a turkey merchant in London Lady Mary Dering (née Harvey) (bap. 3 September 1629 – 7 February 1704) was an English composer. She was daughter of Daniel Harvey of Combe, Croydon, Surrey, a...
, composer (born 16291629 in musicThe year 1629 in music involved some significant events.-Events:*Gregorio Allegri is appointed to compose for the Sistine Chapel.*The wooden opera house of Teatro San Cassiano in Venice burns down.-Classical music:...
) - February 23 – Georg MuffatGeorg Muffat-Life:He was born in Megève, Savoy, , and of Scottish descent. He studied in Paris with Jean Baptiste Lully between 1663 and 1669, then became an organist in Molsheim and Sélestat. Later, he studied law in Ingolstadt, afterwards settling in Vienna...
, composer (born 16531653 in music- Events :*Madeleine de Scudéry and her friend, the lutenist Mlle Bocquet, launch a salon.- Publications :*Alberich Mazak – Cultus harmonicus, volume three, a collection of his complete works, published in Vienna- Classical music :...
) - February 24 – Marc-Antoine CharpentierMarc-Antoine CharpentierMarc-Antoine Charpentier, , was a French composer of the Baroque era.Exceptionally prolific and versatile, he produced compositions of the highest quality in several genres...
, composer (born 16431643 in music-Events:*Composer Johann Crüger meets hymn-writer Paul Gerhardt, resulting in a collaboration.*Johann von Rist publishes his Himmlische Lieder, later set to music by Johann Sebastian Bach.*Pierre Robert becomes master of music at Senlis Cathedral.-Opera:...
) - February 25 – Isabella LeonardaIsabella LeonardaIsabella Leonarda was an Italian composer from Novara. At the age of 16, she entered the Collegio di Sant'Orsola, an Ursuline convent, where she stayed for the remainder of her life...
, composer of church music (born 16201620 in music-Classical music:* Manuel Rodrigues Coelho - Flores de musica pera o instrumento de tecla & harpa* Michelangolo Galilei – Il primo libro d'intavolatura di liuto-Births:*September 6 – Isabella Leonarda, composer...
) - May 3 – Heinrich Ignaz BiberHeinrich Ignaz BiberHeinrich Ignaz Franz Biber von Bibern was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist. Born in the small Bohemian town of Wartenberg , Biber worked at Graz and Kroměříž before he illegally left his Kroměříž employer and settled in Salzburg...
, violinist and composer (born 16441644 in music-Opera:*Francesco Sacrati – La finta pazza*Sigmund Theophil Staden – Seelewig, the first German singspiel*Francesco Cavalli - L'Ormindo- Births :*August 12 – Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, German composer of sonatas...
) - November 2 – Johann Jakob WaltherJohann Jakob WaltherJohann Jakob Walther was a German violinist and composer.- Life :All the known facts of his life and activity are from Musikalischen Lexikon by Johann Gottfried Walther , a dictionary which first appeared in 1732. He was born in Witterda bei Erfurt...
, violinist and composer (born 16501650 in music- Publications :*Alberich Mazak – Cultus harmonicus, volume two, a collection of his complete works, published in Vienna- Classical music :*Claudio Monteverdi – Messa a quattro voci, et Salmi...
) - date unknown – Francesco ProvenzaleFrancesco ProvenzaleFrancesco Provenzale was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher.Before the year 1658, there is virtually no record of Provenzale's existence, although it's thought that he studied at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini in Naples. The year of his entry into history is 1654, the year his...
, composer (born 16241624 in music- Classical music :*Juan Arañés - Libro Segundo de tonos y villancicos*Girolamo Frescobaldi – Il primo libro di capricci*Claudio Monteverdi – Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda*Samuel Scheidt – Tabulatura nova, three books of organ music...
) - date unknown – Georg Christoph Strattner, friend and colleague of Bach at Lüneburg (born c. 1644)