1735 in music

none August 2026 1735 music This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1735. Events January 12 – Death of British composer John Eccles; he is succeeded as Master of the King's Musick by Maurice Greene. February 18 – John Hippisley's English ballad opera Flora becomes the first opera performed in the United States – at Charleston, South Carolina. April 8 – Johann Sebastian Bach revives the anonymous St Luke Passion BWV 246 (BC D 6) at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig. October 25 – Death of Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough; shortly before this he has acknowledged opera singer Anastasia Robinson as his wife. Popular music Richard Leveridge – "The Roast Beef of Old England" Classical music Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Flute Sonata in G major, H.550 Trio Sonata in A minor, H.572 Johann Sebastian Bach Concerto nach italienischen Gusto Overture nach französischer Art Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 3 Fugues for Organ with Pedal Harpsichord Concerto in D major, F.41 Jean-Baptiste Barrière – 6 Cello Sonatas, Book II Antonio Caldara – Gesù presentato nel tempio Louis-Claude Daquin – Pièces de Clavecin Johann Friedrich Fasch – Oboe Concerto, FaWV L:d2 Francesco Geminiani – 6 Concerti Grossi after Corelli's Trio Sonatas Christoph Graupner Trio Sonata in C major, GWV 202 Trio Sonata in B-flat major, GWV 217 Bassoon Concerto in C major, GWV 301 Maurice Greene – Lesson in F major, G minor Johann Adolph Hasse Miserere in C minor 6 Trio Sonatas, Op. 2 George Frideric Handel Organ Concerto in G minor, HWV 289 Organ Concerto in F major, HWV 292 Pietro Antonio Locatelli – 6 Introduttioni teatrali e 6 Concerti grossi, Op. 4 Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville – 6 Violin Sonatas, Op. 4 'Les sons harmoniques' Giovanni Batista Pergolesi – Orfeo, P.115 (secular cantata) Nicola Porpora – 12 Cantate da camera (Dedicated: All' Altezza reale di Federico Prencipe reale di Vallia) Johann Christian Schickhardt – L'Alphabet de la Musique, Op. 30 Georg Philipp Telemann 12 Fantasias for Viol without Bass, TWV 40:26–37 (Hamburg: [Telemann]) 6 Sonates corellisantes, for two violins or flutes and basso continuo (Hamburg: [Telemann]) Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri – 12 Concerti, Op. 1 Jan Dismas Zelenka – Gesù al Calvario (oratorio) Opera Antonio Caldara – Scipione Africano Egidio Romualdo Duni – Nerone François Francœur and François Rebel – Scanderberg George Frideric Handel Ariodante, HWV 33 (first performed) Alcina, HWV 34 Atalanta, HWV 35 (composed, performed 1736) Johann Adolf Hasse – Tito Vespasiano Leonardo Leo – Demofoonte (in collaboration with Giuseppe Sellitto, Francesco Mancini and Domenico Sarro) Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Il Flaminio L'Olimpiade (first performed, composed 1734) Nicola Antonio Porpora Ifigenia In Aulide Polifemo Jean-Philippe Rameau – Les Indes galantes (opéra-ballet) Francesco Maria Veracini – Adriano In Siria Antonio Vivaldi Adelaide, RV 695 (lost) Bajazet, RV 703 (Pasticcio with music by Riccardo Broschi, Geminiano Giacomelli and Johann Adolph Hasse) Griselda, RV 718 Publications George Frideric Handel – 6 Fugues, HWV 605–610 Reinhard Keiser – Dialogus von der Geburt Christi Johann Mattheson – Die wol-klingende Finger-Sprache (Hamburg: Composer) Georg Philipp Telemann – Fugierende und verändernde Choräle, TWV 31:1–48 Methods and Theory Writings Johann Mattheson – Kleine General-Baß-Schule Births January 21 – Johann Gottfried Eckard, pianist and composer (died 1809) February 25 – Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, composer (died 1792) February 28 – Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, musician, mathematician and chemist (died 1796) May 13 – Horace Coignet, composer (died 1821) June 1 – James Lyon I, composer (died 1794) June 6 – Anton Schweitzer, opera composer (died 1787) July 10 – Giovanni Bertati, librettist (died 1815) September 5 – Johann Christian Bach, composer (died 1782)Johann Christian Bach Baroque, Classical, Sonatas Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Johann-Christian-Bach 2026-08-01 Britannica.com en September 6 – John Joseph Merlin, born Jean-Joseph Merlin, clock- and musical-instrument-maker and inventor (died 1803) October 30 – Edward Miller, composer (died 1807) November 17 – Antoine-Alexandre-Henri Poinsinet, librettist (drowned 1769) November 26 – Giambattista Varesco, priest, musician, poet and librettist (died 1805) date unknown – Franz Anton Spitzeder, operatic tenor and keyboard teacher (died 1796) Deaths January 12 – John Eccles, composer (born 1668) February 27 – John Arbuthnot, patron (born 1667) March 24 – Georg Friedrich Kaufmann, organist and composer (born 1679) June 22 – Pirro Albergati, aristocrat and amateur composer (born 1663) July 18 – Johann Krieger, organist and composer (born 1649) November 2 – Šimon Brixi, composer (born 1693) date unknown – Jean-Nicolas de Francine, director of the Opéra national de Paris (born 1662) References Category:18th century in music Category:Music by year