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1731 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1731.

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Events

  • The Academy of Vocal Music changes its name to the Academy of Ancient Music.
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau meets his patron, La Pouplinière.
  • Antonio Stradivari makes a viola that will be owned a hundred years later by Niccolò Paganini.
  • Antonio Vivaldi returns to Venice.
  • March 23 Johann Sebastian Bach premieres his St Mark Passion BWV 247 (BC D 4) at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.

    • Classical music

  • Johann Sebastian Bach – Wachet auf
  • Louis de Caix d'Hervelois – Collection of flute pieces

    • Opera

  • Tommaso Albinoni – Fano
  • Francesco Corradini – Con amor non hay libertad
  • Francesco Corselli – Venere placata
  • Carl Heinrich Graun – Iphigenia in Aulis
  • George Frideric Handel – Poro re dell'Indie, revival of Tamerlano
  • Johann Adolf Hasse – Cleofide
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – La concersione e morte di San Guglielmo

    • Births

  • September 7 – Elisabetta de Gambarini, composer (died 1765)
  • December 8 – František Xaver Dušek, harpsichordist, pianist and composer (died 1799)
  • December 28 – Christian Cannabich, composer (died 1798)
  • date unknown - Pierre Vachon, composer (died 1803)

    • Deaths

  • January 27 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, inventor of an early form of piano (born 1655)
  • May 1 (buried) – Johann Ludwig Bach, violinist and composer (born 1677)
  • July 5 (buried) - Jakob Greber, composer and musician (date of birth unknown)
  • November – Johann Caspar Wilcke, musician and father of Anna Magdalena Bach

    • References

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