1731 in music
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See also: 1730 in music, other events of 1731, 1732 in music, list of years in music.
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Events
- The Academy of Vocal Music changes its name to the Academy of Ancient Music.
- Jean-Philippe Rameau meets his patron, La Pouplinière.
- Antonio Stradivari makes a viola that will be owned a hundred years later by Niccolo Paganini.
- Antonio Vivaldi returns to Venice.
Classical music
- Wachet auf - Johann Sebastian Bach
- Collection of flute pieces - Louis Caix d’Hervelois
Opera
- Fano - Tommaso Albinoni
- Poro - George Frideric Handel
- Cleofide - Johann Adolf Hasse
- La concersione e morte di San Guglielmo - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Births
- September 7 - Elisabetta de Gambarini, composer
- November 1 - Theodore-Jean Tarade
- December - Christian Cannabich
- December 8 - Frantisek Xaver Dusek
Deaths
- January 27 - Bartolomeo Cristofori, inventor of an early form of piano
- February 20 - Frederich Karl Erbach
- May 1 (buried) - Johann Ludwig Bach
- November - Johann Caspar Wilcke, musician and father of Anna Magdalena Bach