The year 1720 in classical music and in lyrical art
1720. With other artists, Giovanni Bononcini, John Gay and Johann Sebastian Bach influenced their time (baroque era). That year would see the birth of future classical or lyrical artists, such as Johann Schobert, while others would disappear. That year, new works would be composed, published or performed for the first time in public, such as “Radamisto” de George Frideric Handel, for example.
All these moments, more or less notable, make the year 1720 a page in the history of classical and lyrical music to be discovered or rediscovered. soclassiq currently lists more than 90 of these moments for 1720.
1720, from day to day
January
04
Birth of Johann Friedrich AgricolaThat year: 1720, Classical music, German composer (dead in 1774)
March
03
Death of Jean HotteterreThat year: 1720, Classical music, French composer and musician (born in 1677)
29
Birth of Gaetano OttaniThat year: 1720, Classical music, instrumentalist, opera singer, painter, scenographer, tenor (dead in 1801)
April
27
Premiere of RadamistoThat year: 1720, Classical music (Opera), George Frideric Handel
May
15
Birth of Louis AubertThat year: 1720, Classical music, French painter and composer (dead in 1800)
August
11
Birth of Martin GerbertThat year: 1720, Classical music, German scholar (dead in 1793)
20
Birth of Bernard de BuryThat year: 1720, Classical music, French composer (dead in 1785)
September
22
Birth of Adolph Carl KunzenThat year: 1720, Classical music, German composer (dead in 1781)
October
03
Birth of Michael Johann Friedrich WiedeburgThat year: 1720, Classical music, German theologian (dead in 1800)
17
Birth of Maria Teresa Agnesi PinottiniThat year: 1720, Classical music, Italian composer (dead in 1795)
26
Premiere of La verità in cimentoThat year: 1720, Classical music (Opera), Antonio Vivaldi
November
16
Birth of Charles-Antoine CampionThat year: 1720, Classical music, French-Italian composer (dead in 1788)
December
Death of Guillaume MinoretThat year: 1720, Classical music, French composer (born in 1650) .
This was also in 1720
Birth of Johann Georg SchürerThat year: 1720, Classical music, German composer (dead in 1786). Birth of William SavageThat year: 1720, Classical music, English composer, organist, and singer (dead in 1789). Birth of Francisco Inácio SolanoThat year: 1720, Classical music, composer (dead in 1800). Birth of Lorenzo de RossiThat year: 1720, Classical music, composer (dead in 1794). Death of William LawrenceThat year: 1720, Classical music, composer . Birth of Gregorio BallabeneThat year: 1720, Classical music, composer (dead in 1803). Death of Françoise JournetThat year: 1720, Classical music, singer (born in 1675). Death of Giovanni BianchiThat year: 1720, Classical music, composer (born in 1660). Birth of Tommaso GuarducciThat year: 1720, Classical music, opera singer (dead in 1803). Birth of Anders WesströmThat year: 1720, Classical music, Swedish violinist and composer (dead in 1781). Birth of John ArnoldThat year: 1720, Classical music, composer (dead in 1792). Birth of Giovanni Battista AndreoniThat year: 1720, Classical music, Italian classical castrato singer (dead in 1797). Birth of AnderssenThat year: 1720, Classical music, composer . Death of Georg BronnerThat year: 1720, Classical music, German composer (born in 1667). Birth of Johann Samuel HarsowThat year: 1720, Classical music, composer (dead in 1792). Birth of Abraham AdamsThat year: 1720, Classical music, organist, publisher (dead in 1790). Birth of Joan Baptista PlaThat year: 1720, Classical music, Spanish musician (dead in 1773). Birth of Michelangelo ValentiniThat year: 1720, Classical music, Italian composer (dead in 1768). Death of Demoiselle ConradiThat year: 1720, Classical music, German singer . Death of Pietro AntoniThat year: 1720, Classical music, Italian musician (born in 1639). Death of Stanisław Sylwester SzarzyńskiThat year: 1720, Classical music, Polish composer (born in 1650). Birth of Joseph Benedikt ZykaThat year: 1720, Classical music, composer (dead in 1791). Birth of Antoine BailleuxThat year: 1720, Classical music, French music publisher (dead in 1800). Birth of PapavoineThat year: 1720, Classical music, composer, approximately 1720-1793 (dead in 1793). Death of Jean-Pierre Freillon-PonceinThat year: 1720, Classical music, composer from France (born in 1655). Birth of Giovanni ManzuoliThat year: 1720, Classical music, Italian singer (dead in 1782). Birth of Francesc MarinerThat year: 1720, Classical music, Catalan organist and composer of the Barcelona Cathedral (dead in 1789). Death of Giovanni Batista FarinelliThat year: 1720, Classical music, kapellmeister (born in 1655). Death of Jean Baptiste Loeillet of GhentThat year: 1720, Classical music, Belgian composer (born in 1688). Birth of Burke ThumothThat year: 1720, Classical music, composer (dead in 1747). Birth of Johann SchobertThat year: 1720, Classical music, German composer (dead in 1767). Birth of Giuseppe ScolariThat year: 1720, Classical music, Italian composer (dead in 1774). Birth of Jean-Baptiste DupuitsThat year: 1720, Classical music, composer, musician (dead in 1759). Birth of Antoine MahautThat year: 1720, Classical music, French musician (dead in 1785). Death of Padre Narciso da MilanoThat year: 1720, Classical music, composer (born in 1672).
Works (composition or publishing)
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Antonio Vivaldi (age 42) - 12 Concertos, Opp. 7That year: 1720, Classical music (Work for orchestra with soloist), composed in 1717
- Filippo re di Macedonia (Opera)
- Gl’inganni per vendetta (Opera)
- La Candace, o siano Li veri amici (Opera)
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Jean-Philippe Rameau (age 37) - In convertendo (Work for choir)
- Les amants trahis (Work for choir)
- Je suis un fou Madame (Work for choir)
- Si tu ne prends garde à toi (Work for choir)
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Johann Sebastian Bach (age 35) - Partita No. 2 for violin in D minorThat year: 1720, Classical music (Work for soloist)
- Fantasy and Fugue in G minorThat year: 1720, Classical music (Work for soloist)
- Partita No. 3 for violin in E majorThat year: 1720, Classical music (Work for soloist)
- Suite No. 1 for cello in G major (Work for soloist)
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George Frideric Handel (age 35) - The Polish Minuet or Miss Kitty Grevil's Delight: Charming is your shape and air (Song, lied)
- The forsaken Maid's Complaint: Faithless ungrateful / The slighted Swain: Cloe proves false (Song, lied)
- 6 Marches (Work for chamber orchestra)
- Allegro in D minor (Work for soloist)
- Air and two Doubles in F major (Work for soloist)
- Aria in B-flat major (Work for soloist)
- Aria in B-flat major (Work for soloist)
- Aria in C minor (Work for soloist)
- Aria in C minor (Work for soloist)
- Aria in G minor (Work for soloist)
- Aria in G minor (Work for soloist)
- Study in A minor (Work for soloist)
- Harpsichord Concerto in G major (Work for soloist)
- Prelude in E major (Work for soloist)
- Prelude in F major (Work for soloist)
- Prelude in D minor (Work for soloist)
- Prelude in F minor (Work for soloist)
- Prelude in F minor (Work for soloist)
- Sonatina for harpsichord in B-flat major (Work for soloist)
- Suite in A major (Work for soloist)
- Suite in E major (Work for soloist)
- Suite in F major (Work for soloist)
- Suite in D minor (Work for soloist)
- Suite in E minor (Work for soloist)
- Suite in F minor (Work for soloist)
- Suite in F-sharp minor (Work for soloist)
- Suite in G minor (Work for soloist)
- Toccata in G minor (Work for soloist)
