1729 in music

Events

• George Frideric Handel becomes co-manager of the King's Theatre, London.
• Pietro Locatelli settles in Amsterdam, where he will spend the rest of his life.
• Johann Sebastian Bach premieres his First Köthen Funeral Music at Evening on March 23 and his Funeral Cantata Klagt, Kinder, klagt es aller Welt, BWV 244a before midday on March 24 both at the St. James Church, Köthen for the funeral services of his former employer, Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen.
• April 15 Johann Sebastian Bach repeats his St Matthew Passion BWV 244b St. Thomas Church, Leipzig

Classical music

• Johann Sebastian Bach – Sehet, wir geh'n hinauf gen Jerusalem, BWV 159, Premiered Feb. 27 in Leipzig
• John Baston – 6 Recorder Concertos
• Joseph Bodin de Boismortier – 5 Sonatas and Concerto for Cello, Viola or Bassoon, Op. 26
• Antonio Caldara
• *Naboth, sacred oratorio
• *Vicino a un rivoletto
• Fortunato Chelleri – 6 Fuge per l'Organo e 6 Sonate per il Cembalo
• Michel Richard Delalande – Motets de feu De La Lande, a collection of grand motets
• John Loeillet – 12 Solos, Op.3
• Jean-Joseph Mouret – Symphony de Fanfare
• Nicolas Pacotat - Delicta quis intelligit, a mass for four voices
• Georg Philipp Telemann
• *Der getreue Music-Meister Hamburg: .
• *Ein Mensch ist in seinem Leben, TWV 4:18
• Antonio Vivaldi
• *6 Flute Concertos, Op.10
• *Op. 12, a collection of violin concerti, published in Amsterdam
• *Cello Concerto in B minor, RV 424
• Andrea Zani – 6 Sinfonias and 6 Concertos, Op.2
• Jan Dismas Zelenka – Laudate pueri, ZWV 81

Opera

• Tomaso Albinoni – La fortezza al cimento
• Giovanni Battista Costanzi – Carlo Magno
• John Gay – The Beggar's Opera
• George Frederic Handel – Lotario, premiered Dec. 2 in London
• Johann Adolf Hasse – Tigrane
• Giovanni Battista Mancini – Endimione
• Giuseppe Maria Orlandini – Adelaide, premiered Feb. 8 in Venice
• Nicola Porpora – Semiramide riconosciuta, first version premiered Dec. 26 in Venice
• Leonardo Vinci – Semiramide riconosciuta, premiered Feb. 6 in Rome
• Antonio Vivaldi – L'Atenaide, RV 702, premiered Dec. 29 in Florence

Births

• April 13 – Thomas Percy, lyricist and ballad-writer
• May 3 – Florian Leopold Gassmann, opera composer
• May 23 – Giuseppe Parini, poet and librettist
• September 29 – Georg Wilhelm Gruber composer
• October 1 – Anton Adlgasser, composer
• October 16 – Pierre van Maldere, violinist and composer
• October 17 – Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, composer
• December 1 – Giuseppe Sarti, opera composer
• December 3 – Antonio Soler, composer
• Date Unknown
• *Antoine Albanèse, composer
• *John Cunningham, librettist and playwright
• *Pietro Pompeo Sales, composer
• *Ignatius Sancho, composer

Deaths

• January 19 – William Congreve, librettist
• July 16 – Johann David Heinichen, German composer
• June 27 – Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, French harpsichordist and composer
• July 31 – Nicola Francesco Haym, Roman opera librettist, composer and bibliographer working in London
• September 17 – Giovanni Antonio Guido, composer
• November 22 – Pieter Bustijn, composer
• date unknown
• *Attilio Ariosti, Bolognese composer working in London
• *Liebhold, composer
• *Vaughan Richardson, composer and organist