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1734 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1734.

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Events

  • March 29 – Louis-Gabriel Guillemain becomes first violinist at the Royal Academy in Dijon.
  • April 23 – Johann Sebastian Bach gives the Leipzig première of Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel's Passion Oratorio Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.
  • The subscription company called the Royal Academy of Music is wound up as a result of difficulties including arguments between Handel and his singers.
  • Approximate date of the William Dixon manuscript of music for the Border pipes.

    • Classical music

  • George Frideric Handel – Op. 3, 6 concerti grossi
  • Giovanni Battista Martini – Litaniae atque antlphonae finales B. V. Mariae

    • Opera

  • Giovanni Battista Costanzi – La Flora
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – La Serva Padrona

    • Births

  • January 17 – François-Joseph Gossec (died 1829)
  • April 19 - Karl von Ordoñez, composer (died 1786)
  • June 28 - Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier, organist and composer (died 1794)
  • July 23 – Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini, composer (died 1786)
  • December 18 - Jean-Baptiste Rey, conductor and composer (died 1810)
  • date unknown - Benjamin Cooke, organist, composer and teacher (died 1793)

    • Deaths

  • February 25 – Marianna Bulgarelli, operatic soprano (born c. 1684)
  • June 13 – Nicolaus Vetter, organist and composer (born 1666)
  • October 6 – Gottfried Reiche, trumpet player and composer (born 1667)
  • date unknown - Obadiah Shuttleworth, violinist, organist and composer

    • References

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