1714 in music

The year 1714 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• March 2 - Johann Sebastian Bach is appointed Konzertmeister at Weimar, having declined a post at Halle.^[1]
• A school of dance opens at the Paris Opera.
• Michel Richard Delalande assumes full control of the French royal chapel upon the retirement of his last co-sous maîtres.^[2]
• Francesco Geminiani arrives in London, where he obtains the patronage of William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex.
• Melchior Hoffmann, composer, marries Margaretha Elisabeth Philipp; he is already suffering from a terminal illness.
• Domenico Scarlatti becomes maestro di cappella at the Cappella Giulia in the Vatican.
• Francesco Maria Veracini visits London and performs at the Queen's Theatre.
• The first permanent church organ in the United States, the Brattle organ, imported by Thomas Brattle,^[3] is installed in Boston at King's Chapel.^[4]
• John Tufts publishes the first instructional book for singing in the USA.
• Gottfried Silbermann completes the new organ for Freiberg Cathedral.^[5]

Classical music

• Johann Sebastian Bach
  • The Little Organ Book
  • Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61
  • Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12 (movement 2 would later form the Crucifixus movement of his Mass in B minor)
• Arcangelo Corelli
  • Christmas Concerto
  • Twelve concerti grossi, op.6, published posthumously
• André Raison – Deuxième livre d'orgue
• Alessandro Scarlatti – S. Filippo Neri (oratorio)

Opera

• Leonardo Leo – Pisistrato
• Jean-Baptiste Matho - Arion (tragédie en musique)
• Jean-Joseph Mouret – Les Fêtes ou Le Triomphe de Thalie

Births

• January 1 – Giovanni Battista Mancini, soprano castrato, voice teacher (died 1800)
• February - Susannah Maria Cibber, singer and actress, daughter of Thomas Arne (died 1766)
• February 2 – Gottfried August Homilius, composer, cantor and organist (died 1785)
• February 28 – Gioacchino Conti, soprano castrato opera singer (died 1761)
• March 8 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (died 1788)
• April 16 - Pedro António Avondano, Portuguese composer
• May 6 – Anton Raaff, tenor (died 1797)
• July 2 – Christoph Willibald Gluck (died 1787)
• September 10 – Niccolò Jommelli, composer (died 1774)
• December 23 - Ranieri de' Calzabigi, librettist collaborating with Gluck (died 1795)
• date unknown
  • Antonio Besozzi, Italian oboist and composer (died 1781)
  • Abade António da Costa, Portuguese composer (died 1780)^[6]
  • Johan Foltmar, composer (died 1794)
  • Christian Gottlob Hubert, builder of keyboard instruments (died 1793)
  • Edmund Pascha, organist and composer (died 1772)
• probable – Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi, luthier (died 1771)

Deaths

• April 17 – Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer (born 1657)
• August 25 – Johann Georg Kühnhausen, composer (date of birth unknown)
• September 3 – Pietro Antonio Fiocco, composer (born 1654)
• November 13 – Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, organist (born 1632)
• date unknown - Benito Bello de Torices, Spanish composer, maestro at the Convent of Las Descalzas Reales (born c.1660)

References

1. ↑ J S Bach timeline. Accessed 7 March 2013
2. ↑ Palisca, Claude V. (1991) [1968]. Baroque Music. Prentice Hall History of Music (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. p. 283. ISBN 0-13-058496-7. 
3. ↑ Elson, The History of American Music, pg. 10
4. ↑ Southern, pg. 24
5. ↑ The Great Silbermann Organ. Accessed 7 March 2013
6. ↑ Livermore, H. V. (1 November 2004). Portugal: a traveller's history. Boydell Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-84383-063-4. Retrieved 14 July 2011.