1731 in music
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 at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.
Classical music
- William Babell – Prelude in F major, IWB 10
- Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach
- *Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, H. 2, Wq. 62/1
- *Trio Sonata in D minor, H. 569, Wq. 145
- *Trio Sonata in C major, H. 571, Wq. 147
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- *Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29
- *Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt, BWV 112
- *Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229
- *Wachet auf, BWV 140
- *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. 33
- *6 Sonates à quatre parties, Op. 34
- *6 Suites de pièces, Op.35
- Louis de Caix d'Hervelois
- *Collection of flute pieces
- *4 Suites de pièces pour la viole, Op. 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. 8
- Johann Joachim Quantz – 6 Flute Sonatas, RISM Q. 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
- 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
- November 27 – Gaetano Pugnani, composer
- December 8 – František Xaver Dušek, harpsichordist, pianist and composer
- December 28 – Christian Cannabich, composer
Deaths
- January 27 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, inventor of an early form of piano
- May 1 – Johann Ludwig Bach, violinist and composer
- July 5 – Jakob Greber, composer and musician
- November – Johann Caspar Wilcke, musician and father of Anna Magdalena Bach
- December 26 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, librettist