1734 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1734.

Events

 * 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
 * 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 – Litaniae atque antiphonae finales B. V. Mariae
 * 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