1735 in music
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- February 18 – Flora becomes the first opera performed in the United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
– at Charleston, South CarolinaCharleston, South CarolinaCharleston is the second largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It was made the county seat of Charleston County in 1901 when Charleston County was founded. The city's original name was Charles Towne in 1670, and it moved to its present location from a location on the west bank of the...
. - Maurice GreeneMaurice Greene (composer)Maurice Greene was an English composer and organist.- Biography :Born in London, the son of a clergyman, Greene became a choirboy at St Paul's Cathedral under Jeremiah Clarke and Charles King...
is appointed Master of the King's Musick. - Shortly before his death, Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of PeterboroughCharles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of PeterboroughCharles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough and 1st Earl of Monmouth, KG, PC was an English nobleman and military leader. He was the son of John Mordaunt, 1st Viscount Mordaunt, and his wife Elizabeth, the daughter and sole heiress of Thomas Carey, the second son of Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth...
, acknowledges opera singer Anastasia RobinsonAnastasia RobinsonAnastasia Robinson was an English soprano, later contralto, of the Baroque era. She is best remembered for her association with the composer George Frideric Handel, in whose operas she sang.-Early life and initial career:...
as his wife. - April 8 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...
revives the anonymous St Luke Passion BWV 246 (BC D 6) at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
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...
- Concerto nach italienischen Gusto
- Overture nach französischer Art
- Wilhelm Friedemann BachWilhelm Friedemann BachWilhelm Friedemann Bach , the second child and eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach, was a German composer and performer...
– 3 Fugues for Organ with Pedal - Jan Dismas ZelenkaJan Dismas ZelenkaJan Dismas Zelenka , baptised Jan Lukáš Zelenka and previously also known as Johann Dismas Zelenka, was the most important Czech Baroque composer, whose music was notably daring with outstanding harmonic invention and mastery of counterpoint.- Life :Zelenka was born in Louňovice pod Blaníkem, a small...
– Gesù al Calvario (oratorio)
Opera
- Egidio Romualdo DuniEgidio Romualdo DuniEgidio Romualdo Duni was an Italian composer who studied in Naples and worked in Italy, France and London, writing both Italian and French operas....
– Nerone - 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...
- AriodanteAriodanteAriodante is an opera seria in three acts by Handel. The anonymous Italian libretto was based on a work by Antonio Salvi, which in turn was adapted from Canti 5 and 6 of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso...
- AlcinaAlcinaAlcina is an opera seria by George Frideric Handel. Handel used the libretto of L'isola di Alcina, an opera that was set in 1728 in Rome by Riccardo Broschi, which he acquired the year after, during his travels in Italy...
- Ariodante
- Leonardo LeoLeonardo LeoLeonardo Leo , more correctly Lionardo Oronzo Salvatore de Leo, was an Italian Baroque composer.-Biography:...
– Demofoonte - Jean-Philippe RameauJean-Philippe RameauJean-Philippe Rameau was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque era. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading French composer for the harpsichord of his time, alongside François...
– Les Indes galantesLes Indes galantesLes Indes galantes is an opéra-ballet consisting of a prologue and four entrées by Jean-Philippe Rameau with libretto by Louis Fuzelier...
(opéra-balletOpéra-balletOpéra-ballet was a popular genre of French Baroque opera, "that grew out of the ballets à entrées of the early seventeeth century". It differed from the more elevated tragédie en musique as practised by Jean-Baptiste Lully in several ways...
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Births
- January 21 – Johann Gottfried EckardJohann Gottfried EckardJohann Gottfried Eckard was a German pianist and composer.. In his youth he became a professional copper engraver and acquired his musical training in his leisure time, mainly from C.P.E. Bach's Versuch and its six ‘Probesonaten’...
, pianist and composer (died 1809) - February - Ernst Wilhelm WolfErnst Wilhelm WolfErnst Wilhelm Wolf was a German composer.-Life:Wolf was born in Grossen Behringen in Thuringia, today part of the Hörselberg-Hainich municipality. His elder brother Ernst Friedrich was a composer and organist who studied under Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel...
, composer (died 1792) - May 13 - Horace CoignetHorace CoignetHorace Coignet was a French composer. His most notable works include the music for Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 1762 short play Pygmalion, first performed in Lyon in 1770.-Sources:...
, composer (died 1821) - June 6 – Anton SchweitzerAnton SchweitzerAnton Schweitzer was a German composer of operas.He was a child prodigy who obtained the patronage of the duke of Hildburghausen, who sent him to study in Bayreuth in 1758, then Italy , and made him Kapellmeister enabling him to tour Europe...
, opera composer (died 1787) - September 5 – Johann Christian BachJohann Christian BachJohann Christian Bach was a composer of the Classical era, the eleventh and youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. He is sometimes referred to as 'the London Bach' or 'the English Bach', due to his time spent living in the British capital...
, composer (died 1782) - date unknown
- Charlotte BrentCharlotte BrentCharlotte Brent was a child prodigy and celebrated soprano singer of the 18th century.She was the daughter of Charles Brent , a Handelian counter-tenor, and fencing-master . She was a pupil and mistress of Thomas Arne and later the wife of the violinist Thomas Pinto...
, operatic soprano (died 1802) - Franz Anton SpitzederFranz Anton SpitzederFranz Anton Spitzeder was a German tenor and keyboard teacher.Spitzeder was born in Traunstein and educated in Salzburg, where in 1759 he found employment as a court singer. He sang the part of Der Christgeist in the premiere of Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots and created the role of Don...
, operatic tenor and keyboard teacher (died 1796)
- Charlotte Brent
Deaths
- January 12 – John Eccles, composer (born 1668)
- March 24 – Georg Friedrich KaufmannGeorg Friedrich KaufmannGeorg Friedrich Kauffmann was a Baroque composer and organist from southern Germany who composed primarily sacred works for the organ and voice.-Early life and career:...
, organist and composer (born 1679) - June 22 - Pirro AlbergatiPirro AlbergatiCount Pirro Capacelli Albergati was an Italian aristocrat, and amateur composer.Albergati was born in Bologna...
, aristocrat and amateur composer (born 1663) - July 18 – Johann KriegerJohann KriegerJohann Philipp Krieger was a German Baroque composer and organist. He was the elder brother of Johann Krieger.-Early years:...
, organist and composer (born 1649) - November 2 - Šimon BrixiŠimon BrixiŠimon Brixi was a Czech composer. He was the father of František Brixi.-Life:He was born in Vlkava u Nymburka. In 1720 he began to study law in Prague. He did not complete his studies, devoting himsef rather to music. His artistic activity was linked with the musical life in Prague...
, composer (born 1693)