1724 in music

• Johann Sebastian Bach composes the Sanctus for his later 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 to the printer François Boivin. • Sébastien de Brossard's collection of manuscripts is bought by King Louis XV of France. • Renatus Harris builds his last organ, that of St Dionis Backchurch in the City of London. • 7 April Johann Sebastian Bach premieres his St John Passion (BWV 245, BC D 2a) at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig. ==Published music==

• Attilio Ariosti • 6 Cantatas (London) • 6 Lessons, for viola d'amore and basso continuo (London) • Francesco Barsanti – Sonate [6], for recorder or violin and continuo, Op. 1 (London) • Joseph Bodin de Boismortier – Cantates françoises (Les Quatre Saisons) (four cantatas for solo voice, various instruments, and basso continuo), Op. 5 (Paris) • François Couperin – Les goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux concerts (Paris) • William Croft – Musica sacra • Jean-François Dandrieu – Pièces de clavecin, Book 1 • Francesco Mancini – XII Solos for recorder and continuo (London) • Thomas Marc – Suitte de pièces de dessus et de pardessus de viole • Benedetto Marcello – Estro poetico-armonico: parafrasi sopra li primi venticinque salmi, vols. 1–4 (Venice: Appresso Domenico Lovisa) • Jean-Philippe Rameau – Pieces de Clavessin ==Classical music==

• Johann Sebastian Bach • Wo soll ich fliehen hin, BWV 5 • Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7 • Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben?, BWV 8 • Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10 • St John Passion (first performance at St. Nicolaikirche in Leipzig) • Wer da gläubet und getauft wird, BWV 37 • Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir, BWV 38 • Sie werden euch in den Bann tun, BWV 44 • Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV 96 • Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 99 • Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101 • Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104 • Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 116 • Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 121 • Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BWV 135 • Wo gehest du hin, BWV 166 • Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV 180 • Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister, BWV 181 • Erwünschtes Freudenlicht, BWV 184 • George Frideric Handel – Silete venti, HWV 242 • Turlough O'Carolan – John Drury (composed for the wedding of a local couple, John Drury and Elizabeth Goldsmith) • Jan Dismas Zelenka – De profundis, ZWV 97 ==Opera==

• Attilio Ariosti • Artaserse (London, King's Theatre, 1 December) • Aquilio consolo (London, King's Theatre, 21 May) • Vespasiano (London, King's Theatre, 14 January) • Antonio Caldara – Gianguir • George Frideric Handel • Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar), HWV 17 • Tamerlano (Tamburlaine), HWV 18 • Dominico Sarro – Didone abbandonata • Leonardo Vinci • Eraclea • Farnace • Ifigenia in Tauride • La Rosmira fedele • Turno Aricino • Antonio Vivaldi • Il Giustino RV 717 • ''La virtù trionfante dell'amore e dell'odio, ovvero il Tigrane'', RV 740 (co-composed with Benedetto Micheli and Nicola Romaldi) == Theoretical writings ==

• Edward Betts – An Introduction to the Skill of Musick • Tomás Pereira – Lulu Zhengyi Xubian • William Turner – Sound Anatomiz’d in A Philosophical Essay on Musick ==Births==

• February 26 – Gottfried Heinrich Bach, mentally handicapped son of Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1763) • July 18 – Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria, composer, singer, harpsichordist and patron (d. 1780) • August 28 – Diamante Medaglia Faini, Italian poet and composer (died 1770) • August 29 – Giovanni Battista Casti, opera librettist (died 1803) • September 14 – Ignaz Vitzthumb, composer and conductor (died 1816) • October 1 – Giovanni Battista Cirri, cellist and composer (died 1808) • December 8 – Claude Balbastre, organist, harpsichordist and composer (died 1799) • date unknown – Joan Rossell, Catalan composer (died 1780) ==Deaths==

• March 7 – Wolfgang Nicolaus Pertl, musician and grandfather of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart{{Cite book • May 21 – Antonio Salvi, librettist for Vivaldi (born 1664) • June 7 (buried) – Johann Hugo von Wilderer, composer (born c.1670) • June 24 – Johann Theile, singer and composer (born 1646) • August 24 – Andreas Kneller, composer (born 1649) • probable • John Abell, countertenor, composer and lutenist (born 1653) • Antonio Quintavalle, opera composer ==References==