1734 in music

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 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
• 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
• *Arianna in Creta, HWV 32
• *Ariodante, HWV 33
• *Parnasso in festa, HWV 73
• Johann Adolf Hasse – Larinda e Vanesio
• Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – Adriano in Siria
• Antonio Vivaldi – L'Olimpiade
• Various – Siface

  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
• 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
• February 20 – Franz Ignaz Beck
• March 18 – Joseph Schmitt
• April 19 – Karl von Ordoñez, composer
• May 28 – Christoph Sonnleithner
• June 19 – Alphonse du Congé Dubreuil
• June 28 – Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier, organist and composer
• July 15 – Johann Ernst Altenburg
• July 20 – Jean-Henri Naderman
• July 23 – Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini, composer
• August 16 – Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Théodore de Tschudi
• September 5 – Jean-Benjamin de Laborde
• September 25 – Louis-René-Édouard de Rohan
• December 18 – Jean-Baptiste Rey, conductor and composer
• December 27 – Stephen Paxton
• December 31 – Claude Joseph Dorat
• date unknown – Benjamin Cooke, organist, composer and teacher

  Deaths

• February 25 – Marianna Bulgarelli, operatic soprano
• April 1 – Louis Lully
• April 30 – Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki
• May 24 – Georg Ernst Stahl
• June 13 – Nicolaus Vetter, organist and composer
• October 6 – Gottfried Reiche, trumpet player and composer
• date unknown – Obadiah Shuttleworth, violinist, organist and composer