1731 in music

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

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)^[1]
• November – Johann Caspar Wilcke, musician and father of Anna Magdalena Bach

References