The year 1729 in music involved some significant events. Events George Frideric Handel becomes co-manager of the King's Theatre, London. Pietro Locatelli settles in Amsterdam, where he will spend the rest of his life. Johann Sebastian Bach premieres his First Köthen Funeral Music at Evening on March 23 and his Funeral Cantata Klagt, Kinder, klagt es aller Welt, BWV 244a before midday on March 24 both at the St. James Church, Köthen for the funeral services of his former employer, Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen. April 15 Johann Sebastian Bach repeats his St Matthew Passion BWV 244b (BC D 3a) St. Thomas Church, Leipzig Classical music Johann Sebastian Bach – Sehet, wir geh'n hinauf gen Jerusalem, BWV 159, Premiered Feb. 27 in Leipzig John Baston – 6 Recorder Concertos Joseph Bodin de Boismortier – 5 Sonatas and Concerto for Cello, Viola or Bassoon, Op. 26 Antonio Caldara Naboth, sacred oratorio (published in 12 Cantatas, GB-Lcm MS 104) Fortunato Chelleri – 6 Fuge per l'Organo e 6 Sonate per il Cembalo Michel Richard Delalande – Motets de feu De La Lande (Motets of the late De La Lande), a collection of grand motets John Loeillet – 12 Solos, Op.3 (for Recorder and basso continuo) Jean-Joseph Mouret – Symphony de Fanfare Nicolas Pacotat - Delicta quis intelligit, a mass for four voices Georg Philipp Telemann Der getreue Music-Meister (editor, continued from 1728) Hamburg: [Telemann]. Ein Mensch ist in seinem Leben, TWV 4:18 Antonio Vivaldi 6 Flute Concertos, Op.10 Op. 12, a collection of violin concerti, published in Amsterdam Cello Concerto in B minor, RV 424 Andrea Zani – 6 Sinfonias and 6 Concertos, Op.2 Jan Dismas Zelenka – Laudate pueri, ZWV 81 Opera Tomaso Albinoni – La fortezza al cimento Giovanni Battista Costanzi – Carlo Magno John Gay – The Beggar's Opera George Frederic Handel – Lotario, premiered Dec. 2 in London Johann Adolf Hasse – Tigrane Giovanni Battista Mancini – Endimione Giuseppe Maria Orlandini – Adelaide, premiered Feb. 8 in Venice Nicola Porpora – Semiramide riconosciuta, first version premiered Dec. 26 in Venice Leonardo Vinci – Semiramide riconosciuta, premiered Feb. 6 in Rome Antonio Vivaldi – L'Atenaide, RV 702, premiered Dec. 29 in Florence Births April 13 – Thomas Percy, lyricist and ballad-writer (died 1811) May 3 – Florian Leopold Gassmann, opera composer (died 1774) May 23 – Giuseppe Parini, poet and librettist (died 1799) September 29 – Georg Wilhelm Gruber composer