1725 in music

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Contents 1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Opera 4 Musical theater 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Giovanni Battista Pergolesi goes to Naples to study under Gaetano Greco. Domenico Scarlatti is also in Naples at this time.

[edit] Classical music

• Trio Sonata in D minor - George Frideric Handel
• Sonatas for Flute and Strings: no 1 in D major - Alessandro Scarlatti
• Twelve Concerti, Op 8 (including The Four Seasons) - Antonio Vivaldi

[edit] Opera

• Pimpinone - Georg Philipp Telemann
• Rodelinda - George Frideric Handel

[edit] Musical theater

[edit] Births

• July 24 - John Newton, clergyman and songwriter ("Amazing Grace") (died 1807)
• probable - Joaquim Joze Antunes, harpsichord maker (died c.1790)

[edit] Deaths

• October 24 - Alessandro Scarlatti, opera composer, father of Domenico (born 1660)
• probable - Christian Ritter, composer