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.

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

The following operas were composed:

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