1735 in music

Events

• February 18 – Flora becomes the first opera performed in the United States – at Charleston, South Carolina.
• Maurice Greene is appointed Master of the King's Musick.
• Shortly before his death, Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough, acknowledges opera singer Anastasia Robinson as his wife.
• April 8 Johann Sebastian Bach revives the anonymous St Luke Passion BWV 246 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.

  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
• Nicola Porpora – 12 Cantate da camera
• Johann Christian Schickhardt – L'Alphabet de la Musique, Op. 30
• Georg Philipp Telemann
• *12 Fantasias for Viol without Bass, TWV 40:26–37
• *6 Sonates corellisantes, for two violins or flutes and basso continuo
• Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri – 12 Concerti, Op. 1
• Jan Dismas Zelenka – Gesù al Calvario

  Opera

• Antonio Caldara – Scipione Africano
• Egidio Romualdo Duni – Nerone
• François Francœur and François Rebel – Scanderberg
• George Frideric Handel
• *Ariodante, HWV 33
• *Alcina, HWV 34
• *Atalanta, HWV 35
• Johann Adolf Hasse – Tito Vespasiano
• Leonardo Leo – Demofoonte
• Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
• *Il Flaminio
• *L'Olimpiade
• Nicola Antonio Porpora
• *Ifigenia In Aulide
• *Polifemo
• Jean-Philippe Rameau – Les Indes galantes
• Francesco Maria Veracini – Adriano In Siria
• Antonio Vivaldi
• *Adelaide, RV 695
• *Bajazet, RV 703
• *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
• 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
• February 25 – Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, composer
• February 28 – Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, musician, mathematician and chemist
• May 13 – Horace Coignet, composer
• June 1 – James Lyon I
• June 6 – Anton Schweitzer, opera composer
• July 10 – Giovanni Bertati
• September 5 – Johann Christian Bach, composer
• October 30 – Edward Miller
• November 17 – Antoine Alexandre Henri Poinsinet
• November 26 – Giambattista Varesco, priest, musician, poet and librettist
• date unknown
• *Charlotte Brent, operatic soprano
• *Franz Anton Spitzeder, operatic tenor and keyboard teacher

  Deaths

• January 12 – John Eccles, composer
• January 29 – George Granville
• February 27 – John Arbuthnot
• March 24 – Georg Friedrich Kaufmann, organist and composer
• June 22 – Pirro Albergati, aristocrat and amateur composer
• July 18 – Johann Krieger, organist and composer
• November 2 – Šimon Brixi, composer
• date unknown
• *Quirino Colombani, musician, composer and music teacher
• *Jean-Nicolas de Francine, director of the Opéra national de Paris