1725 in music

The year 1725 in music involved some significant events.

Events[]

• March 25 (Palm Sunday) – First performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's chorale cantata Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1, at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.
• March 30 – Repeat performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion (BWV 245, BC D 2b [including BWV 245a, b, and c]) at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig (using parts from his Weimarer Passion).
• Giovanni Battista Pergolesi goes to Naples to study under Gaetano Greco. Domenico Scarlatti is also in Naples at this time.
• Nineteen-year-old Giovanni Battista Martini is appointed chapel-master of the Franciscan church at Bologna.

Publications[]

• Joseph Bodin De Boismortier – 6 Sonatas for 3 Flutes, Op. 7
• Johann Fux – Gradus ad Parnassum (Vienna)
• Concerti di flauto, violini, violetta, e basso di diversi autori (24 concertos for recorder, strings and continuo) with works by Alessandro Scarlatti, Mancini, Valentine, Barbella, Domenico Natale Sarro, Giovanni Battista Mele. Undated manuscript, Naples: Biblioteca del Conservatorio di musica S. Pietro a Majella, c.1725.^[1]
• François Couperin – L'Apothéose de Lully (Paris)
• John Loeillet – 12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 2 (London)
• Marin Marais – Pièces de viole, Livre 5 (Paris)
• Georg Philipp Telemann – Harmonischer Gottes-Dienst (continues 1726)
• Antonio Vivaldi – Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione, Op. 8 (contains The Four Seasons^[2] though they were likely written earlier)

Classical music[]

• Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats, BWV 42
  • Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, BWV 123
  • Musette in D major, BWV Anh.126
• George Frideric Handel – Trio Sonata in D minor^{[citation needed]}
• Johann Adolf Hasse – Antonio e Cleopatra
• Benedetto Marcello – O prole nobile di magni principi, S.628
• Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel – Toccata in G Major
• Christian Petzold – Minuet in G major (formerly attributed to J.S. Bach as BWV Anh.114)
• Giovanni Benedetto Platti – 12 Cello Sonatas
• John Sheeles – Suites of Lessons for the Harpsicord or Spinnett

Opera[]

• Attilio Ariosti – Dario
• Antonio Caldara – Venceslao
• George Frideric Handel – Rodelinda, regina de' Longobardi, HWV 19
• Leonardo Leo – Zenobia in Palmira
• Nicola Porpora – Siface
• Georg Philipp Telemann – Pimpinone, TWV 21:15
• Pietro Torri – Venceslao
• Leonardo Vinci
  • Astianatte
  • Elpidia
  • Il trionfo di Camilla
• Antonio Vivaldi – L'inganno trionfante in amore, RV 721

Popular music[]

• Henry Carey – Sally in Our Alley

Births[]

• April 20 – Johann Friedrich Klöffler, German conductor, composer (died 1790)
• July 24 – John Newton, clergyman and poet ("Amazing Grace") (died 1807)
• August 15 – Ferdinando Bertoni, Italian composer and organist (died 1813)
• November 8 – Johann George Tromlitz, flautist (died 1805)
• December 25 – Esteban Salas y Castro, Cuban composer (died 1803)
• probable – Joaquim Joze Antunes, harpsichord maker (died c.1790)
• ca 1725 – Antonio Lolli, Italian violinist and composer (died 1802)

Deaths[]

• February 7 – Johann Philipp Krieger, composer (born 1649)
• October 22 – Alessandro Scarlatti, opera composer, father of Domenico (born 1660)
• date unknown – Robert de Visée, lutenist (born c. 1650)
• probable – Christian Ritter, composer

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