1725 in music

Events

• March 25 – First performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's chorale cantata Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1, at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.
• March 30 – Repeat performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.
• Giovanni Battista Pergolesi goes to Naples to study under Gaetano Greco. Domenico Scarlatti is also in Naples at this time.
• Nineteen-year-old Giovanni Battista Martini is appointed chapel-master of the Franciscan church at Bologna.

  Publications

• Joseph Bodin De Boismortier – 6 Sonatas for 3 Flutes, Op. 7
• Johann Fux – Gradus ad Parnassum
• Concerti di flauto, violini, violetta, e basso di diversi autori with works by Alessandro Scarlatti, Mancini, Valentine, Barbella, Domenico Natale Sarro, Giovanni Battista Mele. Undated manuscript, Naples: Biblioteca del Conservatorio di musica S. Pietro a Majella, c.1725.
• François Couperin – L'Apothéose de Lully
• John Loeillet – 12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 2
• Marin Marais – Pièces de viole, Livre 5
• Georg Philipp Telemann – Harmonischer Gottes-Dienst
• Antonio Vivaldi – Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione, Op. 8

  Classical music

• Johann Sebastian Bach
• *Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats, BWV 42
• *Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, BWV 123
• *Musette in D major, BWV Anh.126
• George Frideric Handel – Trio Sonata in D minor
• Johann Adolf Hasse – Antonio e Cleopatra
• Benedetto Marcello – O prole nobile di magni principi, S.628
• Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel – Toccata in G Major
• Christian Petzold – Minuet in G major
• Giovanni Benedetto Platti – 12 Cello Sonatas
• John Sheeles – Suites of Lessons for the Harpsicord or Spinnett

  Opera

• Attilio Ariosti – Dario
• Antonio Caldara – Venceslao
• George Frideric Handel – Rodelinda, regina de' Longobardi, HWV 19
• Leonardo Leo – Zenobia in Palmira
• Nicola Porpora – Siface
• Georg Philipp Telemann – Pimpinone, TWV 21:15
• Pietro Torri – Venceslao
• Leonardo Vinci
• *Astianatte
• *Elpidia
• *Il trionfo di Camilla
• Antonio Vivaldi – L'inganno trionfante in amore, RV 721

  Births

• April 20 – Johann Friedrich Klöffler, German conductor, composer
• July 24 – John Newton, clergyman and poet
• August 15 – Ferdinando Bertoni, Italian composer and organist
• November 8 – Johann George Tromlitz, flautist
• December 25 – Esteban Salas y Castro, Cuban composer
• probable – Joaquim Joze Antunes, harpsichord maker
• ca 1725 – Antonio Lolli, Italian violinist and composer

  Deaths

• February 7 – Johann Philipp Krieger, composer
• October 22 – Alessandro Scarlatti, opera composer, father of Domenico
• date unknown – Robert de Visée, lutenist
• probable – Christian Ritter, composer