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)