1725 in music

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The year 1725 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• March 25 (Palm Sunday) - 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 (BWV 245, BC D 2b [including BWV 245a, b, and c]) at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig (using parts from his Weimarer Passion).
• 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

• Johann Fux – Gradus ad Parnassum

Classical music

• George Frideric Handel – Trio Sonata in D minor
• Alessandro Scarlatti – Sonatas for Flute and Strings: no 1 in D major
• Antonio Vivaldi – Twelve Concerti, Op 8

Opera

• George Frideric Handel – Rodelinda
• Georg Philipp Telemann – Pimpinone

Births

• April 20 – Johann Friedrich Klöffler, German conductor, composer (died 1790)
• July 24 – John Newton, clergyman and songwriter ("Amazing Grace") (died 1807)
• August 15 – Ferdinando Bertoni, Italian composer and organist (died 1813)
• November 8 – Johann George Tromlitz, flautist (died 1805)
• December 25 – Esteban Salas y Castro, Cuban composer (died 1803)
• probable – Joaquim Joze Antunes, harpsichord maker (died c.1790)
• ca 1725 - Antonio Lolli, Italian violinist and composer (died 1802)

Deaths

• February 7 – Johann Philipp Krieger, composer (born 1649)
• October 22 – Alessandro Scarlatti, opera composer, father of Domenico (born 1660)
• date unknown – Robert de Visée, lutenist (born c. 1650)
• probable – Christian Ritter, composer