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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1731.

Events

  • The Academy of Vocal Music changes its name to the Academy of Ancient Music.
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau meets his patron, La Pouplinière.
  • Antonio Stradivari makes a viola that will be owned a hundred years later by Niccolò Paganini.
  • Antonio Vivaldi returns to Venice.
  • March 23 Johann Sebastian Bach premieres his St Mark Passion BWV 247 (BC D 4) at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.

Classical music

  • William Babell – Prelude in F major, IWB&nbsp;10
  • Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach
  • Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, H.&nbsp;2, Wq.&nbsp;62/1
  • Trio Sonata in D minor, H.&nbsp;569, Wq.&nbsp;145 (formerly attributed to J.S. Bach as BWV 1036)
  • Trio Sonata in C major, H.&nbsp;571, Wq.&nbsp;147
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29
  • Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt, BWV 112 (premiered Apr. 8 in Leipzig)
  • Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229
  • Wachet auf, BWV 140 (premiered Nov. 25 in Leipzig)
  • Orchestral Suite No.3 in D major, BWV 1068
  • Jean Barrière – Sonatas for Pardessus de viole, Livre 5
  • Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
  • 6 Gentillesses en 3 parties, Op.&nbsp;33
  • 6 Sonates à quatre parties, Op.&nbsp;34
  • 6 Suites de pièces, Op.35
  • Louis de Caix d'Hervelois
  • Collection of flute pieces
  • 4 Suites de pièces pour la viole, Op.&nbsp;3
  • Antonio Caldara – David umiliato
  • Louis-Antoine Dornel – Pièces de clavecin
  • Christoph Graupner
  • Trio Sonata in E minor, GWV 209
  • Flute Concerto in D major, GWV 312
  • Concerto for Flute d'amore, Oboe d'amore and Viola d'amore in G major, GWV 333
  • George Frideric Handel – Minuet in G major, HWV 530
  • Michele Mascitti – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op.&nbsp;8
  • Johann Joachim Quantz – 6 Flute Sonatas, RISM Q.&nbsp;33
  • Giuseppe Tartini
  • Pastorale in A major, B.A16
  • Violin Sonata in G major, B.G17
  • Violin Sonata in G minor, B.g10 "Didone abbandonata"
  • Georg Philipp Telemann
  • Abscheuliche Tiefe des großen Verderbens, TWV 1:9
  • Der mit Sünden beleidigte Heiland, TWV 1:306
  • Nach Finsternis und Todesschatten, TWV 1:1150
  • Fortsetzung des Harmonischen Gottes-Dienstes
  • Jan Dismas Zelenka – Missa Sancti Josephi, ZWV 14

Opera

  • Tommaso Albinoni – Fano
  • Francesco Corradini – Con amor non hay libertad
  • Francesco Corselli – Venere placata
  • Carl Heinrich Graun – Iphigenia in Aulis
  • George Frideric Handel
  • Poro, re dell'Indie, HWV 28
  • Rinaldo, HWV 7b (revised 1711 version)
  • Johann Adolf Hasse
  • Cajo Fabricio
  • Cleofide
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – La conversione e morte di San Guglielmo
  • Nicola Porpora – Poro
  • Antonio Vivaldi – Semiramide, RV 733

Theoretical publications

  • Johann Mattheson – Grosse General-Baß-Schule

Births

  • August 4 – Giuseppe Colla, composer (died 1806)
  • November 27 – Gaetano Pugnani, composer (died 1798)
  • December 8 – František Xaver Dušek, harpsichordist, pianist and composer (died 1799)
  • December 28 – Christian Cannabich, composer (died 1798)

Deaths

  • January 27 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, inventor of an early form of piano (born 1655)
  • May 1 (buried) – Johann Ludwig Bach, violinist and composer (born 1677)
  • July 5 (buried) – Jakob Greber, composer and musician (date of birth unknown)
  • November – Johann Caspar Wilcke, musician and father of Anna Magdalena Bach
  • December 26 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, librettist (born 1672)

References