1718 in music
Overview of the events of 1718 in music From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The year 1718 in music involved some significant events.
- Antonio Vivaldi tours Italy.
- Handel succeeds Johann Christoph Pepusch as Kapellmeister to the Duke of Chandos.
- Johann Joachim Quantz settles in Dresden.
- 14-year-old Carlos Seixas succeeds his father as organist at Coimbra Cathedral.
- Attilio Ariosti – Recueil de pièces
- William Babell – The Harpsichord Master Improved
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Lobet den Herrn, alle seine Heerscharen, BWV Anh.5
- Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV Anh.77
- Der Himmel dacht auf Anhalts Ruhm und Glück, BWV 66a
- Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht, BWV 134a
- Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten, BWV 202
- Amore traditore, BWV 203
- Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her, BWV 738
- Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042
- Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor, BWV 1043
- Sinfonia in F major, BWV 1046a
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047 (likely composed)
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048
- Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major, BWV 1066
- Antonio Caldara – Il martirio di San Terenziano
- Pietro Castrucci – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1
- Francesco Bartolomeo Conti – Amore in Tessaglia
- Jean-François Dandrieu – Les caractères de la guerre
- Johann Ernst Prinz von Sachsen-Weimar – 6 Violin Concertos, Op. 1
- Christoph Graupner – 8 Partitas
- George Frideric Handel
- Esther (oratorio) HWV 50a
- Dolc' è pur d'amor l'affanno, HWV 109b
- L'aure grate, il fresco rio, HWV 121a
- As Pants the Hart, HWV 251b
- Francesco Manfredini – 12 Concertos, Op. 3 (inc. No. 12 in C major "Christmas Pastorale")
- Pierre Danican Philidor
- 4 Suites, Op. 2
- 3 Suites, Op. 3
- Georg Philipp Telemann
- 6 Suonatine per violino e cembalo (TWV 41)
- 6 Trio Sonatas (TWV 42)
- Concerto for 2 Recorders, TWV 52:a2
- Antonio Vivaldi – Qual in pioggia dorata, RV 686
- Giovanni Zamboni – Sonate d'intavolatura di leuto, Op. 1
- Jan Dismas Zelenka
- Capriccio in G major, ZWV 183
- Capriccio in F major, ZWV 184
- Collectaneorum Musicorum, Book II (compilation of Poglietti and Frescobaldi scores compiled during Zelenka's time in Vienna)
- Toussaint Bertin de la Doué – Le Jugement de Paris
- Antonio Maria Bononcini – Griselda
- Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello – Tisbe, Premiered Jan. 26 in Stuttgart
- Antonio Caldara – Ifigenia in Aulide
- George Frideric Handel – Acis and Galatea HWV 49
- Nicola Porpora – Berenice regina d'Egitto
- Domenico Natale Sarro – Arsace
- Alessandro Scarlatti
- Cambise, R.356.64
- Il trionfo dell'onore
- Telemaco
- Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel – Diomedes (inc. aria "Bist du bei mir", later arranged by J.S. Bach as BWV 508)
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Armida al campo d'Egitto, RV 699
- Scanderbeg, RV 732
- Tito Manlio, RV 738
- Jean-François Dandrieu – Principes de l'Acompagnement du Clavecin
- January 18 – Christoph Ludwig Fehre, organist and composer (died 1772)
- April 14 – Emanuele Barbella, Italian composer and violinist (died 1777)
- August 9 – Placidus von Camerloher, German composer (died 1782)
- September 25 – Nicola Conforto, composer (died 1793)
- November 8 – Joseph Aloys Schmittbaur, composer (died 1809)
- November 21 – Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, music critic and composer (died 1795)
- date unknown
- Wenzel Raimund Birck, composer (died 1763)
- Mademoiselle Duval (nom de plume) (died c.1775)
- Richard Mudge, composer (died 1763)
- Giuseppe Scarlatti (or 1723), composer (died 1777)
- December 3 – Richard Duke, violin maker (died 1783)[1]
- February 27 – Václav Karel Holan Rovenský, composer (born 1644)
- March – Richard Brind, organist and composer
- March 13 – Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns, composer (born 1637)
- April 1 – Johann Burchard Freystein, hymn writer (born 1671)
- November 26 – Bernardo Sabadini, opera composer
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