1724 in music

The year 1724 in music involved some significant musical events.

Events

 * 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
 * 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