1735 in music

• January 12 – Death of British composer John Eccles; he is succeeded as Master of the King's Musick by Maurice Greene. • February 18 – John Hippisley's English ballad opera Flora becomes the first opera performed in the United States – at Charleston, South Carolina. • April 8 – Johann Sebastian Bach revives the anonymous St Luke Passion BWV 246 (BC D 6) at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig. • October 25 – Death of Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough; shortly before this he has acknowledged opera singer Anastasia Robinson as his wife. ==Popular music==

• Richard Leveridge – "The Roast Beef of Old England" ==Classical music==

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach • Flute Sonata in G major, H.550 • Trio Sonata in A minor, H.572 • Johann Sebastian Bach • Concerto nach italienischen Gusto • Overture nach französischer Art • Wilhelm Friedemann Bach • 3 Fugues for Organ with Pedal • Harpsichord Concerto in D major, F.41 • Jean-Baptiste Barrière – 6 Cello Sonatas, Book II • Antonio Caldara – Gesù presentato nel tempio • Louis-Claude Daquin – Pièces de Clavecin • Johann Friedrich Fasch – Oboe Concerto, FaWV L:d2 • Francesco Geminiani – 6 Concerti Grossi after Corelli's Trio Sonatas • Christoph Graupner • Trio Sonata in C major, GWV 202 • Trio Sonata in B-flat major, GWV 217 • Bassoon Concerto in C major, GWV 301 • Maurice Greene – Lesson in F major, G minor • Johann Adolph Hasse • Miserere in C minor • 6 Trio Sonatas, Op. 2 • George Frideric Handel • Organ Concerto in G minor, HWV 289 • Organ Concerto in F major, HWV 292 • Pietro Antonio Locatelli – 6 Introduttioni teatrali e 6 Concerti grossi, Op. 4 • Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville – 6 Violin Sonatas, Op. 4 Les sons harmoniques • Giovanni Batista Pergolesi – Orfeo, P.115 (secular cantata) • Nicola Porpora – 12 Cantate da camera (Dedicated: ''All' Altezza reale di Federico Prencipe reale di Vallia'') • Johann Christian Schickhardt – ''L'Alphabet de la Musique'', Op. 30 • Georg Philipp Telemann • 12 Fantasias for Viol without Bass, TWV 40:26–37 (Hamburg: [Telemann]) • 6 Sonates corellisantes, for two violins or flutes and basso continuo (Hamburg: [Telemann]) • Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri – 12 Concerti, Op. 1 • Jan Dismas Zelenka – Gesù al Calvario (oratorio) ==Opera==

• Antonio Caldara – Scipione Africano • Egidio Romualdo Duni – Nerone • François Francœur and François Rebel – Scanderberg • George Frideric Handel • Ariodante, HWV 33 (first performed) • Alcina, HWV 34 • Atalanta, HWV 35 (composed, performed 1736) • Johann Adolf Hasse – Tito Vespasiano • Leonardo Leo – Demofoonte (in collaboration with Giuseppe Sellitto, Francesco Mancini and Domenico Sarro) • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi • Il Flaminio • ''L'Olimpiade'' (first performed, composed 1734) • Nicola Antonio Porpora • Ifigenia In Aulide • Polifemo • Jean-Philippe Rameau – Les Indes galantes (opéra-ballet) • Francesco Maria Veracini – Adriano In Siria • Antonio Vivaldi • Adelaide, RV 695 (lost) • Bajazet, RV 703 (Pasticcio with music by Riccardo Broschi, Geminiano Giacomelli and Johann Adolph Hasse) • Griselda, RV 718 == Publications ==

• George Frideric Handel – 6 Fugues, HWV 605–610 • Reinhard Keiser – Dialogus von der Geburt Christi • Johann Mattheson – Die wol-klingende Finger-Sprache (Hamburg: Composer) • Georg Philipp Telemann – Fugierende und verändernde Choräle, TWV 31:1–48 == Methods and Theory Writings ==

• Johann Mattheson – Kleine General-Baß-Schule ==Births==

• January 21 – Johann Gottfried Eckard, pianist and composer (died 1809) • February 25 – Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, composer (died 1792) • February 28 – Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, musician, mathematician and chemist (died 1796) • May 13 – Horace Coignet, composer (died 1821) • June 1 – James Lyon I, composer (died 1794) • June 6 – Anton Schweitzer, opera composer (died 1787) • July 10 – Giovanni Bertati, librettist (died 1815) • September 5 – Johann Christian Bach, composer (died 1782) • September 6 – John Joseph Merlin, born Jean-Joseph Merlin, clock- and musical-instrument-maker and inventor (died 1803) • October 30 – Edward Miller, composer (died 1807) • November 17 – Antoine-Alexandre-Henri Poinsinet, librettist (drowned 1769) • November 26 – Giambattista Varesco, priest, musician, poet and librettist (died 1805) • date unknown – Franz Anton Spitzeder, operatic tenor and keyboard teacher (died 1796) ==Deaths==

• January 12 – John Eccles, composer (born 1668) • February 27 – John Arbuthnot, patron (born 1667) • March 24 – Georg Friedrich Kaufmann, organist and composer (born 1679) • June 22 – Pirro Albergati, aristocrat and amateur composer (born 1663) • July 18 – Johann Krieger, organist and composer (born 1649) • November 2 – Šimon Brixi, composer (born 1693) • date unknown – Jean-Nicolas de Francine, director of the Opéra national de Paris (born 1662)