G.F. Handel/J.S. Bach - Linha do tempo

Handel is born in Halle, Germany

J.S. Bach is born in Eisenach, Germany

Joins a Society of the Musical Sciences

Dies at Leipzig

The Art of the Fugue was published

Handel's first oratorio

Travels to Dublin, Ireland.

Handel's Last Oratorio

12,000 people attend the first performance of Music for the Royal Fireworks.

Handel suffered from an apparent stroke at the age of 52.

A year after recovering, he composed his famous opera Serse.

Wrote his last opera Deidamia.

Queen's Theater (now called Her Majesty's Theater) was established by John Vanbrugh.

Handel held a performance of Messiah. The proceeds went to the Foundling Hospital and was a huge success.

Handel wrote three exceptionally successful operas during a year.

Lincoln's Inn Fields Theater premiered The Beggar's Opera by John Gay and ran for sixty-two performances.

Handel dies in his Brook Street home at the age of seventy-four. Three thousand people attended his funeral.

"Origin of the Musical Bach Family"

Bach joined the choir at the school of Michaelskirche, Luneburg

Returned to Thuringia

Joined the orchestra of Johann Ernst, Duke of Weimar

Appointed organist of the New Church in Arnstadt

J.S. Bach begins to write the Clavierbuchlein for W.F. Bach

Bach finishes the Brandenburg Concertos

Bach marries Anna Magdalena Wilcken

Bach starts the Well- Tempered Clavier consisting of 24 preludes and fugues in all keys

Bach gets permission to leave Kothen.

Bach gets sworn in at Leipzig

Bach was doing nonmusical duties to make more money due to his low income.

He published a Concerto in the Italian style and the French Overture.

Because of Bach's illness, he was replaced by Johann Matthias Gesner, who was replaced by Johann August Ernesti, who thought that music was a waste of time. This led to a dispute.

He published the Clavier Partitas

He published the organ mass with the prelude and fugue.

Bach was honorary musical director to Weissenfels

Bach began to produce cantatas in honour of the elector of Saxony and his family

He published the Goldberg Variations

First official performance with Cantata no. 75

Production of Bach's St. John Passion

Wrote 52 cantatas

Sanctus of mass in B minor produced on Christmas

Handel produces the opera Rinaldo

Handel permanently settles in England

Handel composes "Water Music"

Handel creates the opera company Royal Academy of Music

Handel is advised by Duke Johann Adolf I to begin musical instruction.

Performed first secular cantata "Was mir behagt"

Bach became concert master of Weimar

Bach is confirmed as musical director to Prince Leopold of Kothen

Bach moves to Kothen.

Handel accept an organist position at the Calvinist Cathedral

Handel moves to Hamburg

Handel joins the violin section of the Hamburg Oper am Gansemarkt

Handel composes two operas: Nero and Almira

Handel moves to Florence, Italy

Handel decides to permanently settle in London

Handel travels to London

Premiered his first twenty-five operas in the Queen's Theater.

Bach is held in prison by the Duke of Weimar as a condition of resignation from the court.