1724 in music

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.
• 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 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.

  Published music

• Attilio Ariosti
• *6 Cantatas
• *6 Lessons, for viola d'amore and basso continuo
• Francesco Barsanti – Sonate , for recorder or violin and continuo, Op. 1
• Joseph Bodin de Boismortier – Cantates françoises , Op. 5
• François Couperin – Les goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux concerts
• William Croft – Musica sacra
• Jean-François Dandrieu – Pièces de clavecin, Book 1
• Francesco Mancini – XII Solos for recorder and continuo
• – Suitte de pièces de dessus et de pardessus de viole
• Benedetto Marcello – Estro poetico-armonico: parafrasi sopra li primi venticinque salmi, vols. 1–4
• 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
• *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 and some 50 other cantatas
• *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
• Jan Dismas Zelenka – De profundis, ZWV 97

  Opera

• Attilio Ariosti
• *Artaserse
• *Aquilio consolo
• *Vespasiano
• Antonio Caldara – Gianguir
• George Frideric Handel
• *Giulio Cesare, HWV 17
• *Tamerlano, 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

  Theoretical writings

• – 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
• July 18 – Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria, composer, singer, harpsichordist and patron
• August 28 – Diamante Medaglia Faini, Italian poet and composer
• August 29 – Giovanni Battista Casti, opera librettist
• September 14 – Ignaz Vitzthumb, composer and conductor
• October 1 – Giovanni Battista Cirri, cellist and composer
• December 8 – Claude Balbastre, organist, harpsichordist and composer
• date unknown – Joan Rossell, Catalan composer

  Deaths

• March 7 – Wolfgang Nicolaus Pertl, musician and grandfather of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• May 21 – Antonio Salvi, librettist for Vivaldi
• June 7 – Johann Hugo von Wilderer, composer
• June 24 – Johann Theile, singer and composer
• August 24 – Andreas Kneller, composer
• probable
• *John Abell, countertenor, composer and lutenist
• *Antonio Quintavalle, opera composer