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The year 1724 in music involved some significant events.
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Events
- Johann Sebastian Bach begins his Mass in B minor.
- John Frederick Lampe arrives in Britain.
- Joseph Bodin de Boismortier moves to Paris from Perpignan.
- Agostino Steffani is elected honorary president of the Academy of Antient Musick in London.
- Johann Adolph Hasse arrives in Naples.
- The Le Saraste violin is made by Antonio Stradivari (now owned by the Real Concervatorio Superior de Música in Madrid, Spain).
- In Rome, Domenico Scarlatti meets Farinelli and Johann Joachim Quantz.
- Marriage of the daughter of music publisher, Jean-Baptiste Christophe Ballard and printer François Boivin.
- Sébastien de Brossard's collection of manuscripts is bought by King Louis XV of France.
Classical music
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- St John's Passion (first performance at St. Nicolaikirche in Leipzig)
- Cantata No. 38
- Joseph Bodin de Boismortier - Les Quatre Saisons (cantata)
- François Couperin - L'Apothéose de Corelli
- William Croft - Musica sacra
- Benedetto Marcello - Estro Poetrico Armonico, vol. 1
- Turlough O'Carolan - John Drury (composed for the wedding of a local couple, John Drury and Elizabeth Goldsmith)
- Jean-Philippe Rameau - Pieces de Clavessin
Opera
The following operas were composed:
- George Frideric Handel - Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar); Tamerlano (Tamburlaine), both first performed in London
- Leonardo Vinci - Turno Aricino
- Antonio Vivaldi - Il Giustino
Births
- February 26 - Gottfried Heinrich Bach, mentally-handicapped son of Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1763)
- August 29 - Giovanni Battista Casti, opera librettist (d. 1803)
- December 1 - Dismas Hatas, composer
Deaths
- June 24 - Johann Theile, singer and composer (b. 1646)
- probable - Antonio Quintavalle, opera composer
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