1719 in music
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This article lists the most significant events and works of the year 1719 in music.
Events
- February – George Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...
leaves his employment at CannonsHandel at CannonsGeorge Frideric Handel was the house composer at Cannons from August 1717 until February 1719. The Chandos Anthems and other important works by Handel were conceived, written or first performed at Cannons....
(the seat of the Duke of Chandos) to become musical director of the Royal Academy of Music (1719). Giovanni Bononcini is brought to London to compose for the Academy. - Bernhard Christoph BreitkopfBernhard Christoph BreitkopfBernhard Christoph Breitkopf was a German printer and publisher, and founder of the publisher that became Breitkopf & Härtel....
founds the firm of Breitkopf & HärtelBreitkopf & HärtelBreitkopf & Härtel is the world's oldest music publishing house. The firm was founded in 1719 in Leipzig by Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf . The catalogue currently contains over 1000 composers, 8000 works and 15,000 music editions or books on music. The name "Härtel" was added when Gottfried...
, the world's oldest music publisher. - Alessandro ScarlattiAlessandro ScarlattiAlessandro Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.-Life:Scarlatti was born in...
arrives in Rome. - 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...
becomes kapellmeister to João V of Portugal. - 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...
becomes kapellmeister to the Duke of Holstein. - Giuseppe PitoniGiuseppe Ottavio PitoniGiuseppe Ottavio Pitoni was an organist and composer born in Rieti, Perugia, Italy. He became one of the leading musicians in Rome during the late Baroque era, the first half of the 18th century.-Life:...
becomes choirmaster of St Peter's in Rome. - Francesco VeraciniFrancesco Maria Veracinithumb|150px|Francesco Maria Veracini.Francesco Maria Veracini was an Italian composer and violinist, perhaps best known for his sets of violin sonatas.-Life:Francesco Maria Veracini led a turbulent life...
performs at the palace of Moritzburg for the wedding of the Crown Prince to Maria Josepha. - Antonio Stradivarius makes the "Duke of Marlborough" cello.
- In JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, the Kumiodori dance form is created by Chokun Tamagusuku. - Jean-Baptiste MorinJean-Baptiste Morin (composer)Jean-Baptiste Morin was a French composer and the "Ordinaire de la Musique" to Philippe, Duke of Orléans before and perhaps during his regency. 1719-1731 was Morin "Maître de musique" of Louise-Adélaïde of Orléans, daughter of the Duke, at the royal abbey of Chelles, near Paris.Morin was born in...
becomes "maître de musique" to Louise-Adélaïde, daughter of the Duke of Orléans.
Classical music
- 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...
– Brandenburg Concerto no 4 - Jacques-Martin HotteterreJacques-Martin HotteterreJacques-Martin Hotteterre , also known as Jacques Martin or Jacques Hotteterre, was a French composer and flautist. Jacques-Martin Hotteterre was the most celebrated of a family of wind instrument makers and wind performers.-Biography:Jacques-Martin Hotteterre was born in Paris, the son of Martin...
– L'Art de préluder sur la flûte traversière
Opera
- Alessandro ScarlattiAlessandro ScarlattiAlessandro Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.-Life:Scarlatti was born in...
– Marco Attilio Regolò - 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...
– Il Teuzzone; Tito Manlio -
Births
- November 9 - Domenico Lorenzo PonzianiDomenico Lorenzo PonzianiDomenico Lorenzo Ponziani was an 18th-century Italian law professor, priest, chess player, composer and theoretician. He is best known today for his chess writing.-Life:...
, polymath (died 1796) - November 14 – Leopold MozartLeopold MozartJohann Georg Leopold Mozart was a German composer, conductor, teacher, and violinist. Mozart is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule.-Childhood and student years:He was born in Augsburg, son of...
, baroqueBaroque musicBaroque music describes a style of Western Classical music approximately extending from 1600 to 1760. This era follows the Renaissance and was followed in turn by the Classical era...
composerComposerA composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
(died 1787) - date unknown
- Johann Christoph Altnikol, composer (baptized January 1, 1720)
Deaths
- January 19 – Joachim TielkeJoachim TielkeJoachim Tielke was a German maker of musical instruments. He was born in Königsberg, Prussia, and died in Hamburg.A publication was dedicated to him by Günther Hellwig...
, German instrument-maker (born 1641) - July – Johann Valentin MederJohann Valentin MederJohann Valentin Meder was a German composer, organist, and singer. Meder was born in Wasungen, Thuringia to a musical family with his father and four brothers all being...
, organist, singer and composer (born 1649) - July 28 (buried) – Arp SchnitgerArp SchnitgerArp Schnitger was a highly influential German organ builder. He was primarily active in Northern Europe, especially the Netherlands and Germany, where a number of his instruments survive to the present day; his organs can also be found as far away as Portugal and Brazil.Notable examples still in...
, organ builder (born 1648) - date unknown
- Michael MietkeMichael MietkeMichael Mietke I was a German harpsichord and harp maker, whose sons also became instrument makers.He apparently lived his entire life in Berlin and is known to have been an instrument maker there from, at the latest, 1695. He succeeded Christoph Werner in 1707 as official maker to the court...
, maker of harpsichords and harps (born c.1656/1671) - André RaisonAndré RaisonAndré Raison was a French Baroque composer and organist. During his lifetime he was one of the most famous French organists and an important influence on French organ music. He published two collections of organ works, in 1688 and 1714. The first contains liturgical music intended for monasteries...
, organist and composer (born 1650)
- Michael Mietke
- probable
- John LentonJohn LentonJohn Lenton was an English composer, violinist, and singer. Scholars believe he may have been the John Linton baptized on 4 March 1657 at St Andrew, Holborn. Little is known about his early life...
, violinist, singer and composer - Johann Speth, composer
- Francesco Antonio UrioFrancesco Antonio UrioFrancesco Antonio Urio was an Italian composer of the Baroque era.Urio was a member of the Franciscan order and held maestro di cappella posts in Rome, Venice, Milan, Genoa, Assisi, Urbino and Spoleto...
, composer (born 1631)
- John Lenton