1724 in music explained

The year 1724 in music involved some significant musical events.

Events

Johann Sebastian Bach composes the Sanctus for his later Mass in B minor.
John Frederick Lampe arrives in Britain.
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier moves to Paris from Perpignan.
Agostino Steffani is elected honorary president of the Academy of Antient Musick in London.
Johann Adolph Hasse arrives in Naples.
The Le Saraste violin is made by Antonio Stradivari (now owned by the Real Concervatorio Superior de Música in Madrid, Spain).
In Rome, Domenico Scarlatti meets Farinelli and Johann Joachim Quantz.
Marriage of the daughter of music publisher Jean-Baptiste-Christophe Ballard to the printer François Boivin.
Sébastien de Brossard's collection of manuscripts is bought by King Louis XV of France.
Renatus Harris builds his last organ, that of St Dionis Backchurch in the City of London.
7 April Johann Sebastian Bach premieres his St John Passion (BWV 245, BC D 2a) at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.

Attilio Ariosti
- 6 Cantatas (London)
- 6 Lessons, for viola d'amore and basso continuo (London)
Francesco Barsanti – Sonate [6], for recorder or violin and continuo, Op. 1 (London)
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier – Cantates françoises (Les Quatre Saisons) (four cantatas for solo voice, various instruments, and basso continuo), Op. 5 (Paris)
François Couperin – Les goûts-réunis, ou Nouveaux concerts (Paris)
William Croft – Musica sacra
Jean-François Dandrieu – Pièces de clavecin, Book 1
Francesco Mancini – XII Solos for recorder and continuo (London)
Thomas Marc – Suitte de pièces de dessus et de pardessus de viole
Benedetto Marcello – Estro poetico-armonico: parafrasi sopra li primi venticinque salmi, vols. 1–4 (Venice: Appresso Domenico Lovisa)
Jean-Philippe Rameau – Pieces de Clavessin

Attilio Ariosti
- Artaserse (London, King's Theatre, 1 December)
- Aquilio consolo (London, King's Theatre, 21 May)
- Vespasiano (London, King's Theatre, 14 January)
Antonio Caldara – Gianguir
- - George Frideric Handel Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar), HWV 17
- Tamerlano (Tamburlaine), HWV 18
Dominico Sarro – Didone abbandonata
Leonardo Vinci
- Eraclea
- Farnace
- Ifigenia in Tauride
- La Rosmira fedele
- Turno Aricino
  - Antonio Vivaldi Il Giustino RV 717
- La virtù trionfante dell'amore e dell'odio, ovvero il Tigrane, RV 740 (co-composed with Benedetto Micheli and Nicola Romaldi^[1])

February 26 – Gottfried Heinrich Bach, mentally handicapped son of Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1763)
July 18 – Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria, composer, singer, harpsichordist and patron (d. 1780)
August 28 – Diamante Medaglia Faini, Italian poet and composer (died 1770)
August 29 – Giovanni Battista Casti, opera librettist (died 1803)
September 14 – Ignaz Vitzthumb, composer and conductor (died 1816)
October 1 – Giovanni Battista Cirri, cellist and composer (died 1808)
December 8 – Claude Balbastre, organist, harpsichordist and composer (died 1799)
date unknown – Joan Rossell, Catalan composer (died 1780)

March 7 – Wolfgang Nicolaus Pertl, musician and grandfather of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart^[2]
May 21 – Antonio Salvi, librettist for Vivaldi (born 1664)
June 7 (buried) – Johann Hugo von Wilderer, composer (born c.1670)
June 24 – Johann Theile, singer and composer (born 1646)
August 24 – Andreas Kneller, composer (born 1649)
probable
- John Abell, countertenor, composer and lutenist (born 1653)
- Antonio Quintavalle, opera composer