1724 in music

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The year 1724 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Johann Sebastian Bach begins his Mass in B minor.
• John Frederick Lampe arrives in Britain.
• Joseph Bodin de Boismortier moves to Paris from Perpignan.
• Agostino Steffani is elected honorary president of the Academy of Antient Musick in London.
• Johann Adolph Hasse arrives in Naples.
• The Le Saraste violin is made by Antonio Stradivari (now owned by the Real Concervatorio Superior de Música in Madrid, Spain).
• In Rome, Domenico Scarlatti meets Farinelli and Johann Joachim Quantz.
• Marriage of the daughter of music publisher, Jean-Baptiste Christophe Ballard and printer François Boivin.
• Sébastien de Brossard's collection of manuscripts is bought by King Louis XV of France.

Classical music

• Johann Sebastian Bach
  • St John's Passion (first performance at St. Nicolaikirche in Leipzig)
  • Cantata No. 38
• Joseph Bodin de Boismortier - Les Quatre Saisons (cantata)
• François Couperin - L'Apothéose de Corelli
• William Croft - Musica sacra
• Benedetto Marcello - Estro Poetrico Armonico, vol. 1
• Turlough O'Carolan - John Drury (composed for the wedding of a local couple, John Drury and Elizabeth Goldsmith)
• Jean-Philippe Rameau - Pieces de Clavessin

Opera

The following operas were composed:

• George Frideric Handel - Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar); Tamerlano (Tamburlaine), both first performed in London
• Leonardo Vinci - Turno Aricino
• Antonio Vivaldi - Il Giustino

Births

• February 26 - Gottfried Heinrich Bach, mentally-handicapped son of Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1763)
• August 29 - Giovanni Battista Casti, opera librettist (d. 1803)
• December 1 - Dismas Hatas, composer

Deaths

• June 24 - Johann Theile, singer and composer (b. 1646)
• probable - Antonio Quintavalle, opera composer