1720 in music
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This article lists the most significant events and works of the year 1720 in music.
Events
- Royal Academy of Music (1719) opens in LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. - Giovanni Battista BononciniGiovanni Battista BononciniGiovanni Battista Bononcini was an Italian Baroque composer and cellist, one of a family of string players and composers. His father, Giovanni Maria Bononcini , was a violinist and a composer.-Biography:...
arrives in London, his home until 1732, and becomes one of Handel's most notable rivals. - 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...
arrives in LisbonLisbonLisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
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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...
– Prelude for Lute in C minor - Jan Josef Ignác BrentnerJan Josef Ignác BrentnerJan Josef Ignác Brentner , was a Czech composer of the baroque era.- Biography :...
– Horae Pomeridianae - Marin MaraisMarin MaraisMarin Marais was a French composer and viol player. He studied composition with Jean-Baptiste Lully, often conducting his operas, and with master of the bass viol Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe for 6 months. He was hired as a musician in 1676 to the royal court of Versailles...
– Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris - 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...
– Messa di Santa Cecilia
Opera
- Antonio Maria BononciniAntonio Maria BononciniAntonio Maria Bononcini was an Italian cellist and composer, the younger brother of the better-known Giovanni Battista Bononcini....
– Nino - 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...
– RadamistoRadamisto (Handel)Radamisto is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel to an Italian libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym, based on L'amor tirannico, o Zenobia by Domenico Lalli and Zenobia by Matteo Noris... - Johann David HeinichenJohann David HeinichenJohann David Heinichen was a German Baroque composer and music theorist who brought the musical genius of Venice to the court of Augustus the Strong in Dresden...
– Flavio Crispo - Leonardo LeoLeonardo LeoLeonardo Leo , more correctly Lionardo Oronzo Salvatore de Leo, was an Italian Baroque composer.-Biography:...
– Caio Gracco - Giovanni PortaGiovanni PortaGiovanni Porta was an Italian opera composer.One of the masters of early 18th-century opera and one of the leading Venetian musicians, Porta made his way from Rome, to Vicenza, to Verona, then London where his opera Numitore was performed in 1720 by the Royal Academy of Music , and eventually back...
– Numitore - 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...
– La verità in cimento
Births
- January 4 – Johann Friedrich AgricolaJohann Friedrich AgricolaJohann Friedrich Agricola was a German composer, organist, singer, pedagogue, and writer on music. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Flavio Anicio Olibrio.-Biography:...
, 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....
) - August 20 – Bernard de BuryBernard de BuryBernard de Bury or Buri was a French musician and court composer of the late Baroque era.-Biography:...
, court musician and composer (died 1785) - October 17- Maria Teresa AgnesiMaria Teresa AgnesiMaria Teresa Agnesi was an Italian composer. Though she was most famous for her compositions, she was also an accomplished harpsichordist and singer, and the majority of her surviving compositions were written for keyboard, the voice, or both. She was born in Milan to Pietro Agnesi, an...
, singer and composer (died 17951795 in music- Events :*Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna following second London visit.*Franz Krommer settles in Vienna.-Classical music:*Ludwig van Beethoven – Three Piano Trios, Op. 1*Joseph Haydn**Symphonies 103 in E-flat "Drum Roll" and 104 in D "London"...
) - November 16 – Carlo Antonio CampioniCarlo Antonio CampioniCarlo Antonio Campioni , also known as Carlo Antonio Campione or Charles Antoine Campion, was an Italian composer, as well as a collector of early music....
, composer (died 17881788 in music-Events:* Antonio Salieri appointed Imperial Royal Kapellmeister by Emperor Joseph II of Austria.*Domenico Cimarosa is invited to St Petersburg by the Empress Catherine II of Russia.-Opera:*Thomas Carter – The Constant Maid, or Poll of Plympton...
) - probable
- Bernhard Joachim HagenBernhard Joachim HagenBernhard Joachim Hagen was a German composer, violinist and lutenist. He was the last important composer of lute music in 18th century Germany.-Life:...
, composer (died 17871787 in music-Events:*February 1 – A posthumous performance of Antonio Sacchini's Œdipe à Colone at the Paris Opéra results in the previously unsuccessful opera becoming one of the most popular pieces in the repertoire for several decades....
) - Joan Baptista PlaJoan Baptista PlaJoan Baptista Pla was a Spanish composer and oboist.Joan Baptista was born in Catalonia, Spain, into a Catalan family of musicians. In the years after 1751, he worked in many of the principal cities of Europe including Padua, Stuttgart, Brussels, Paris andLondon along with his brother, Josep Pla ,...
, oboist and composer (died 1773)
- Bernhard Joachim Hagen
Deaths
- July 27 – Johann Samuel Welter, composer
- July – Maria Barbara BachMaria Barbara BachMaria Barbara Bach was the first wife of composer Johann Sebastian Bach. She was also his second cousin, and the daughter of Johann Michael Bach.-Personal life:...
, first wife of 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...
(born 16841684 in musicThe year 1684 in music involved some significant events.-Events:*Antonio Stradivari makes the Bucher, Cipriani Potter and Cobbett ex Holloway violins.* An adaptation of Fletcher's Valentinian features music composed by Louis Grabu....
) - date unknown – Jean HotteterreJean HotteterreJean Hotteterre was a composer and musician of the Hotteterre family in the court of Louis XIV of France. He and his brothers Jacques-Martin and Nicolas made many enhancements to the hautbois, creating an "indoor" version similar to the shawm. Jean and Michel Philidore created the oboe.-References:...
, musician and composer - probable
- Antonia BemboAntonia BemboAntonia Bembo was an Italian composer and singer. She was born in Venice and died in Paris. She was the daughter of Giacomo Padoani, a doctor, and married Lorenzo Bembo in 1659. She moved to Paris before 1676, possibly to leave a bad marriage. There she sang for Louis XIV...
, singer and composer (born c. 16401640 in music-Events:*January 21 – Salmacida Spolia, the final royal masque of the Caroline era, is performed at Whitehall Palace. The work features music by composer Lewis Richard.-Music:...
) - Jean Baptiste Loeillet of GhentJean Baptiste Loeillet of GhentJean Baptiste Loeillet , who later styled himself Loeillet de Gant, was a Belgian composer, born in Ghent. He spent the largest part of its life in France in services to the archbishop of Lyon, Paul-François de Neufville de Villeroy. He wrote many works for flute, including trio sonatas,...
, composer (born 1688) - Johann Speth, organist and composer (born 16641664 in music-Events:*Following the disgrace of Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Jean-Henri d'Anglebert assumes the position of harpsichordist to Louis XIV, King of France.-Classical music:*Heinrich Schütz – Weihnachts-Oratorium...
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- Antonia Bembo