The year 1718 in classical music and in lyrical art
1718. With other artists, Alessandro Scarlatti, John Gay and Leonardo Vinci influenced their time (baroque era). That year would see the birth of future classical or lyrical artists, while others would disappear. That year, new works would be composed, published or performed for the first time in public, such as “Acis and Galatea (masque)” de George Frideric Handel, for example.
All these moments, more or less notable, make the year 1718 a page in the history of classical and lyrical music to be discovered or rediscovered. soclassiq currently lists more than 60 of these moments for 1718.
1718, from day to day
January
02
Birth of Josef SchreierThat year: 1718, Classical music, Czech composer
18
Birth of Christoph Ludwig FehreThat year: 1718, Classical music, German musician and composer (dead in 1772)
April
14
Birth of Emanuele BarbellaThat year: 1718, Classical music, Italian composer (dead in 1777)
26
Birth of Christian Samuel MohrheimThat year: 1718, Classical music, composer (dead in 1780)
June
22
Premiere of ScanderbegThat year: 1718, Classical music (Opera), Antonio Vivaldi
August
09
Birth of Placidus von CamerloherThat year: 1718, Classical music, German composer (dead in 1782)
September
25
Birth of Nicola ConfortoThat year: 1718, Classical music, Italian composer (dead in 1793)
November
08
Birth of Joseph Aloys SchmittbaurThat year: 1718, Classical music, German composer, Kapellmeister, and instrument builder (dead in 1809)
21
Birth of Friedrich Wilhelm MarpurgThat year: 1718, Classical music, German music critic, music-theorist and composer (dead in 1795)
24
Birth of Lorenzo GibelliThat year: 1718, Classical music, Italian composer (dead in 1812)
26
Death of Bernardo SabadiniThat year: 1718, Classical music, Italian composer
This was also in 1718
Birth of Antonio FerradiniThat year: 1718, Classical music, Italian composer (dead in 1779). Birth of Mlle DuvalThat year: 1718, Classical music, French composer (dead in 1775). Birth of Giovanni Battista ZingoniThat year: 1718, Classical music, composer (dead in 1811). Death of Augustin Reinhard StrickerThat year: 1718, Classical music, German composer (born in 1680). Birth of Richard MudgeThat year: 1718, Classical music, English composer (dead in 1763).
Works (composition or publishing)
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Tomaso Albinoni (age 47)
- Cleomene (Opera)
- Meleagro (Opera)
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Antonio Vivaldi (age 40)
- TeuzzoneThat year: 1718, Classical music (Opera)
- Armida al campo d'EgittoThat year: 1718, Classical music (Opera)
- Artabano, re dei Parti (Opera)
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Georg Philipp Telemann (age 37)
- Jupiter und Semele (Opera)
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George Frideric Handel (age 33)
- Acis and Galatea (masque)That year: 1718, Classical music (Opera) Premiere
- EstherThat year: 1718, Classical music (Work for choir) Premiere
- Chandos Anthem No. 1, “O be joyful in the Lord” (Work for choir)
- As pants the hart (Work for choir)
- Chandos Anthem No. 10, “The Lord is my light” (Work for choir)
- Chandos Anthem No. 2, “In the Lord put I my trust” (Work for choir)
- Chandos Anthem No. 3, “Have mercy upon me” (Work for choir)
- Chandos Anthem No. 4, “O sing unto the Lord a new song” (Work for choir)
- Chandos Anthem No. 5, “I will magnify thee” (Work for choir)
- Chandos Anthem No. 7, “My song shall be alway” (Work for choir)
- Chandos Anthem No. 8, “O come, let us sing unto the Lord” (Work for choir)
- Chandos Anthem No. 9, “O praise the Lord with one consent” (Work for choir)
- Let God arise (Work for choir)
- Bella ma ritrosetta (Work for choir)
- Dolc' è pur d'amor l'affanno (Work for choir)
- Dolc' è pur d'amor l'affanno (Work for choir)
- Il Gelsomino or Son Gelsomino (Work for choir)
- La Solitudine or L'aure grate, il fresco rio (Work for choir)
- Mi palpita il cor (Work for choir)
- Te Deum ("Chandos" or "Cannons") (Work for choir)
- Allegro in F major (Work for soloist)
- Con lacrime si belle (Song, lied)
- Spera chi sa perchè la sorte (Song, lied)
- Aria in D minor (Work for soloist)
- Non so se avrai mai bene (Song, lied)
- Fugue for organ or harpsichord in G major (Work for soloist)
- Fugue for organ or harpsichord in A minor (Work for soloist)
- Fugue for organ or harpsichord in C minor (Work for soloist)
- Fugue for organ or harpsichord in G minor (Work for soloist)
- Fugue for organ or harpsichord in B minor (Work for soloist)
- Concerto grosso in B-flat major, Op. 3 No. 2 (Work for orchestra)
- Concerto grosso in G major, Op. 3 No. 3 (Work for orchestra)
- Concerto grosso in D minor, Op. 3 No. 5 (Work for orchestra)
- Prelude in A minor (Work for soloist)
- Prelude in F-sharp minor (Work for soloist)
- Sonata in B-flat major, Op. 2 No. 3 (Work for chamber orchestra)
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Johann Sebastian Bach (age 33)
- Partita for flute in A minorThat year: 1718, Classical music (Work for soloist), composed in 1723