1729 in music

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