1734 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1734.

Events

• March 29 – Louis-Gabriel Guillemain becomes first violinist at the Royal Academy in Dijon.
• April 23 – Johann Sebastian Bach gives the Leipzig première of Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel's Passion Oratorio Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.
• The subscription company called the Royal Academy of Music is wound up as a result of difficulties including arguments between Handel and his singers.
• Approximate date of the William Dixon manuscript of music for the Border pipes.

Classical music

• George Frideric Handel – Op. 3, 6 concerti grossi
• Giovanni Battista Martini – Litaniae atque antlphonae finales B. V. Mariae

Opera

• Giovanni Battista Costanzi – La Flora
• Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – La Serva Padrona

Births

• January 17 – François-Joseph Gossec (died 1829)
• April 19 - Karl von Ordoñez, composer (died 1786)
• June 28 - Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier, organist and composer (died 1794)
• July 23 – Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini, composer (died 1786)
• December 18 - Jean-Baptiste Rey, conductor and composer (died 1810)
• date unknown
  • Benjamin Cooke, organist, composer and teacher (died 1793)

Deaths

• February 25 – Marianna Bulgarelli, operatic soprano (born c. 1684)
• June 13 – Nicolaus Vetter, organist and composer (born 1666)
• October 6 – Gottfried Reiche, trumpet player and composer (born 1667)
• date unknown - Obadiah Shuttleworth, violinist, organist and composer