1735 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1735.

Events

 * 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)