1734 in music

• March 29 – Louis-Gabriel Guillemain becomes first violinist at the Royal Academy in Dijon. • April 23 – Johann Sebastian Bach gives the Leipzig première of Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel's Passion Oratorio Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. • The London subscription company called the Royal Academy of Music is wound up as a result of difficulties including arguments between Handel and his singers. • Approximate date of the William Dixon manuscript of music for the Border pipes. ==Classical music==

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Harpsichord Concerto in E-flat major, H.404 • Johann Michael Bach – Fürchtet euch nicht (earliest surviving manuscript dated 1734) • Johann Sebastian Bach – 3 Choräle zu Trauungen, BWV 250–252 • Antonio Caldara – Il giuoco del quadriglio • Christoph Graupner • Ouverture in G major, GWV 466 • Tut Busse und lasse sich ein jeglicher, GWV 1104/34 • Herr, die Wasserströme erheben sich, GWV 1115/34 • George Frideric Handel – Antiphons, HWV 269–274 • Johann Adolf Hasse – ''Il cantico de' tre fanciulli'' • Giovanni Battista Martini – '''' • Johann Joachim Quantz – 6 Flute Sonatas, RISM Q.19 • Georg Reutter – La Betulia liberata • Georg Philipp Telemann • 6 Concerts et 6 Suites • Pyrmonter Kurwoche • 12 Solos à violon ou traversiere avec la basse chiffrée • Antonio Vivaldi • Violin Concerto in C major, RV 177 • Vengo a voi, luci adorate, RV 682 ==Opera==

• Francesco Araia – ''La forza dell'amore e dell'odio'' • Riccardo Broschi – Artaserse (collaboration with Hasse, Ariosti) • Antonio Caldara • La Clemenza di Tito • ''Le Lodi d'Augusto'' • Giovanni Battista Costanzi – La Flora • Geminiano Giacomelli – Merope • George Frideric Handel • Il pastor fido, HWV 8b/c (revised from the 1712 version) • Arianna in Creta, HWV 32 (premiered) • Ariodante, HWV 33 • Parnasso in festa, HWV 73 (Serenade) • Johann Adolf Hasse – Larinda e Vanesio (intermezzo) • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – Adriano in Siria • Antonio Vivaldi – ''L'Olimpiade'' • Various – Siface (inc. work from Giuseppe Sellitto, Nicola Antonio Porpora, Leonardo Vinci, Geminiano Giacomelli, Johann Adolph Hasse) == Publications ==

• Johann Sebastian Bach – 149 Chorales, D-LEb Peters Ms. R 18 • Joseph Bodin de Boismortier • 6 Sonates dont la derniere est en trio, Op. 50 • 6 Sonatas for Flute and Violin, Op. 51 • 4 Balets de village en trio, Op. 52 • Michel Corrette – Premier Livre de Pièces pour le Clavecin, Op. 12 • Jean-François Dandrieu – Pieces de clavecin, Book 3 • Pierre Février – Pièces de clavecin, Livre 1 • George Frideric Handel – Op. 3, 6 concerti grossi (London: John Walsh) • Jean-Marie Leclair – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 5 • Johann Melchior Molter – Sonata grossa in D major, MWV 4.5 • Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville – 6 Trio Sonatas, Op. 2 • Jean-Baptiste Morin – La chasse du cerf • Giovanni Battista Somis – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 6 • Giuseppe Tartini – Violin Sonatas, Op. 1 • Georg Philipp Telemann – Verzeichniß der Telemannischen Musikalischen Werke • Carlo Tessarini – Il maestro e discepolo, Op. 2 ==Births==

• January 17 – François-Joseph Gossec (died 1829) • February 20 – Franz Ignaz Beck (died 1809) • March 18 – Joseph Schmitt (died 1791) • April 19 – Karl von Ordoñez, composer (died 1786) • May 28 – Christoph Sonnleithner (died 1786) • June 19 – Alphonse du Congé Dubreuil (died 1801) • June 28 – Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier, organist and composer (died 1794) • July 15 – Johann Ernst Altenburg (died 1801) • July 20 – Jean-Henri Naderman (died 1799) • July 23 – Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini, composer (died 1786) • August 16 – Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Théodore de Tschudi (died 1784) • September 5 – Jean-Benjamin de Laborde (died 1794) • September 25 – Louis-René-Édouard de Rohan (died 1803) • December 18 – Jean-Baptiste Rey, conductor and composer (died 1810) • December 27 – Stephen Paxton (died 1787) • December 31 – Claude Joseph Dorat (died 1780) • date unknown – Benjamin Cooke, organist, composer and teacher (died 1793) ==Deaths==

• February 25 – Marianna Bulgarelli, operatic soprano (born c. 1684) • April 1 – Louis Lully, composer (born 1664) • April 30 – Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki, Baroque composer (born c. 1665) • June 13 – Nicolaus Vetter, organist and composer (born 1666) • October 6 – Gottfried Reiche, trumpet player and composer (born 1667) • December 17 – Charlotte Brent, operatic soprano (died 1802) • date unknown – Obadiah Shuttleworth, violinist, organist and composer