Category:Music--1700s

Music (1700s) The page: Music--1700s, includes (in chronological order) literary works of Music, made in the 18th century, or from 1700 to 1799. Johann Sebastian Bach Georg Frideric Haendel Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Highlights (1700s) Juditha triumphans (1716 Vivaldi / Cassetti), oratorio The Messiah (1742 Haendel / Jennens), oratorio Judas Maccabeus (1747 Haendel / Morell), oratorio Alexander Balus (1748 Haendel / Morell), oratorio La passione di Gesù Cristo (1749 Jommelli / Metastasio), oratorio Der Tod Jesu (The Death of Jesus / 1755 Graun / @1755 Ramler), oratorio Judith (1761 Arne / Bickerstaffe), oratorio La Betulia liberata (The Liberation of Bethulia / 1771 Mozart / @1734 Metastasio), oratorio Il ritorno di Tobia (1775 Haydn / Boccherini), oratorio Jonah (1775 Felsted), oratorio Interpreters (1700s)

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History of Research (1700s) -- Notes

Apostolo Zeno

Pietro Metastasio

Joseph Haydn

Music played a central role in the 18th century not only as a form of entertainment but as a powerful means of knowledge. An amazing number of oratorios and operas were composed (more than in any other century), dealing with Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins. The idea of "connecting" the two Testaments to the History of the Jews and the early Church in a continuous narrative was accomplished in music before becoming a standard in scholarship. The subjects of musical dramatic pieces ranged from the Hebrew Bible to the OT Apocrypha, stories from Josephus, the lives of Jesus and the apostles, and the development of the early Church.