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Encyclopedia > 1714 in music

See also: 1713 in music, other events of 1714, 1715 in music, list of years in music. See also: 1712 in music, other events of 1713, 1714 in music, list of years in music. ... Events August 1 - George, elector of Hanover becomes King George I of Great Britain. ... See also: 1714 in music, other events of 1715, 1716 in music, list of years in music. ... This page indexes the individual year in music pages. ...

Contents
1 Events
2 Classical music
3 Opera
4 Births
5 Deaths

Events

Exterior of the Palais Garnier. ... Domenico Scarlatti ( October 26, 1685 – July 23, 1757) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. ... Francesco Geminiani (December 5, 1687 – September 17, 1762), Italian violinist, composer, and music theorist, was born at Lucca. ... Greater London and the Regions of England. ... Francesco Maria Veracini. ...

Classical music

George Frideric Handel (German Georg Friedrich Händel), (February 23, 1685 – April 14, 1759) was a German Baroque music composer who lived much of his life in England. ... Johann Sebastian Bach, 1748 portrait by Elias Gottlob Haussmann Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685[1] (O.S.) – July 28, 1750[2] (N.S.)) was a German composer and organist of the Baroque period, and is universally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. ...

Opera

This article is about opera as an art form. ... Leonardo Leo (August 5, 1694 - October 31, 1744), more correctly Lionardo Oronzo Salvatore de Leo was an Italian Baroque composer, born at S. Vito dei Normanni, near Brindisi. ...

Births

March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in Leap years). ... Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Weimar, March 8, 1714 – December 14, German musician and composer, the second son of Johann Sebastian Bach. ... March 24 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (84th in Leap years). ... July 2 is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 182 days remaining. ... Christoph Willibald Gluck (July 2, 1714 – November 15, 1787) was a German composer. ... September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years). ... Niccolò Jommelli Niccolò Jommelli ( September 10, 1714 - August 25, 1774) was an Italian composer. ... September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years). ... December 23 is the 357th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (358th in leap years). ...

Deaths

  • April 17 - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer

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BAROQUE MUSIC DEFINED (1870 words)
Later, during the early-to-mid 1900s, the term baroque was applied by association to music of the 17th and early 18th century, and today the term baroque has come to refer to a very clearly definable type or genre of music which originated, broadly speaking, around 1600 and came to fruition between 1700 and 1750.
Many a composer's fortunes rose or fell with the status accorded to music at the court in which he was serving, and composer-musicians would try to seek a position in a city or court where music was known, for the time being anyway, to be thriving under the patronage of an enthusiastic king or prince.
Music which is melodious yet so constructed as to reflect the "perfect order" of the universe: that is the essence of the baroque.
Baroque Composers – Overview, individual biographies (4642 words)
An underlying, all-pervading and inspirational influence on Italian baroque music was provided by its violin-makers, mainly centered in Cremona - the Amati family in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Guarneri and Stradivari families in the 17th and 18th.
His performance of sacred music, instrumental and vocal, made Lübeck a place of pilgrimage for musicians anxious to advance in their art, and the young Sebastian Bach himself traveled two hundred miles to hear them and to sit at the feet of the Master.
As the 18th century progressed, European music was also becoming increasingly familiar in the United States, a particularly enthusiastic exponent being Thomas Jefferson, politician, diplomat, foreign minister to France, vice president under John Adams, two-term president of the United States, and of course, author of the Declaration of Independence.
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