The year 1717 in music involved some significant events.

Events

* March 26 – Johann Sebastian Bach premieres his '' Weimarer Passion'' at the chapel of Friedrichstein Castle in Gotha * July 13 –

Domenico Zipoli Domenico Zipoli (1688-1726) was a composer from the Baroque period. He worked and died in Córdoba, Argentina, Córdoba, in the Viceroyalty of Peru, Spanish Empire, (presently in Argentina). He became a Jesuit in order to work in the Reduction ...

arrives in Buenos Aires with 52 other Jesuit missionaries. * July 17 –

George Frideric Handel George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (; baptised , ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque music, Baroque composer well known for his opera#Baroque era, operas, oratorios, anthems, concerto grosso, concerti grossi, ...

's '' Water Music'' is performed on the River Thames. *August – Handel becomes house composer at Cannons. * December 26 – Teatro Regio Ducale in Milan opens as an opera house. * Johann Sebastian Bach is appointed ''

Kapellmeister (, also , ) from German ''Kapelle'' (chapel) and ''Meister'' (master)'','' literally "master of the chapel choir" designates the leader of an ensemble of musicians. Originally used to refer to somebody in charge of music in a chapel, the term ha ...

'' by Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen. *Celebrated ''

castrato A castrato (Italian, plural: ''castrati'') is a type of classical male singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto. The voice is produced by castration of the singer before puberty, or it occurs in one who, due to ...

'' Gaetano Berenstadt visits London and plays the lead in a revival of Handel's ''

Rinaldo Rinaldo may refer to: *Renaud de Montauban (also spelled Renaut, Renault, Italian: Rinaldo di Montalbano, Dutch: Reinout van Montalbaen, German: Reinhold von Montalban), a legendary knight in the medieval Matter of France * Rinaldo (''Jerusalem Lib ...

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Classical music

Tomaso Albinoni Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (8 June 1671 – 17 January 1751) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. His output includes operas, concertos, sonatas for one to six instruments, sinfonias, and solo cantatas. While famous in his day as an opera comp ...

– Violin Sonata in B-Flat Major, T. So 32 *

William Babell William Babell (or Babel) (c. 1690 - 23 September 1723) was an English musician, composer and prolific arranger of vocal music for harpsichord. Life He received his musical training from his father, Charles Babel, a bassoonist in the Drury Lane ...

– ''Suits of the most Celebrated Lessons'' * Johann Sebastian Bach **''6 Kleine Präludien'',

BWV 933 The Six Little Preludes ( BWV 933-938) are a group of preludes written by the composer Johann Sebastian Bach for harpsichord. They are all short, pedagogical efforts written in or around the period of 1717–1720, but they were not published unt ...

-938 **''5 Kleine Präludien'', BWV 939-943 **Violin Sonata in B minor, BWV 1014 **Violin Sonata in E major, BWV 1016 **Violin Sonata in C minor, BWV 1017 **Violin Sonata in F minor, BWV 1018 **Violin Sonata in G major,

BWV 1019 The (BWV; ; ) is a catalogue of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was first published in 1950, edited by Wolfgang Schmieder. The catalogue's second edition appeared in 1990. An abbreviated version of that second edition, known as BWV2 ...

* Pietro G.G. Boni – Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 1 *

François Chauvon François Chauvon was a Baroque composer and oboist. He was a pupil of François Couperin François Couperin (; 10 November 1668 – 11 September 1733) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as ''Couperin le Gran ...

– ''Tibiades'' *

François Couperin François Couperin (; 10 November 1668 – 11 September 1733) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as ''Couperin le Grand'' ("Couperin the Great") to distinguish him from other members of the musically talented ...

– ''Pièces de clavecin'', book 2 *

Charles Dieupart Charles Dieupart (1676 - 1751) was a French harpsichordist, violinist, and composer. Although he was known as Charles to his contemporaries according to some biographers, his real name was actually François. He was most probably born in Paris, bu ...

– ''6 Sonatas for a Flute and a Through Bass'' *

Johann Friedrich Fasch Johann Friedrich Fasch (15 April 1688 – 5 December 1758) was a German violinist and composer. Much of his music is in the Baroque-Classical transitional style known as galant. Life Fasch was born in the town of Buttelstedt, 11 km north o ...

– ''Brockes-Passion'', FaWV F:1 *

Christoph Graupner Christoph Graupner (13 January 1683 – 10 May 1760) was a German composer and harpsichordist of late Baroque music who was a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and George Frideric Handel. Life Born in Hartmannsdorf ...

– ''Wie wunderbar ist Gottes Güte'', GWV 1103/17 * Georg Friedrich Handel **''Dolc' è pur d'amor l'affanno'', HWV 109a **''Mi palpita il cor'', HWV 132b **''O be Joyful in the Lord'', HWV 246 **''In the Lord I Put My Trust'', HWV 247 **''Have Mercy upon Me, O God'', HWV 248 **''O Sing unto the Lord a New Song'', HWV 249b **''I Will Magnify Thee'', HWV 250a **''O Praise the Lord with One Consent'', HWV 254 **''The Lord is My Light'', HWV 255 **''Oboe Concerto in B-flat major'', HWV 302a **''Concerto Grosso in G major'', HWV 314 **'' Water Music'' HWV 348-350 **''Trio Sonata in C minor'', HWV 386a *

Jacques Hotteterre Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (29 September 167316 July 1763), also known as Jacques Martin or Jacques Hotteterre, was a French composer and flautist who was the most celebrated of a family of wind instrument makers and wind performers. Biography ...

– Suite in G major, Op. 6 * Jean-Baptiste Loeillet – ''12 Sonatas'', Op. 5 * Marin Marais – ''Pièces de viole, Livre 4'' * Pierre-Danican Philidor – ''12 Suites'', Opp. 1-3 * Georg Philipp Telemann **''

Gott der Hoffnung erfülle euch ' (May the God of hope fill you), TWV 1:634, BWV 218, is a church cantata by Georg Philipp Telemann formerly credited to Johann Sebastian Bach. It was composed for Whit Sunday in Eisenach in 1717, with text by Erdmann Neumeister. The clos ...

'', TWV 1:634 (formerly BWV 218) **''Herr, sei mir gnädig, denn mir ist Angst'', TWV 1:769 **''Ich bin der Erste und der Letzte'', TWV 1:816 **''Sehet an die Exempel der Alten'', TWV 1:1259 *

Antonio Vandini Antonio Vandini (1691 – 1778), a close friend of Giuseppe Tartini, was a cellist and composer. He was one of the foremost virtuoso performers of his era and spent the vast majority of his career as the first violoncellist of the ″Veneranda ...

– Cello Sonata in C major, IAV 5 *

Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widespread a ...

**Violin Sonata in C minor, RV 5 **Concerto for Strings in C major, RV 114 **Concerto for Strings in D major, RV 121 **Concerto for Strings in D minor, RV 127 **Concerto for 2 Oboes in C major, RV 534 **Magnificat, RV 610 * John Weaver (choreographer; composers unknown) – '' The Loves of Mars and Venus'' (ballet)

Opera

* Antonio Maria Bononcini – ''La conquista del vello d'oro'' *

Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello (also Bressonelli; ca. 1690, Bologna – 4 October 1758, Stuttgart) was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist. Brescianello's name is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1715 by which Maximilian II ...

– ''Tisbe'' * Antonio Caldara – ''La verità nell'inganno'' * Leo Leonardo – ''Diana amante'' *

Alessandro Scarlatti Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti (2 May 1660 – 22 October 1725) was an Italian Baroque composer, known especially for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the most important representative of the Neapolitan school of opera. ...

– '' Telemaco'' *

**'' L'Incoronazione di Dario'' **'' Tieteberga'', RV 737

Births

January 4 Events Pre-1600 *46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina. * 871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army. 1601–1900 *1649 – Engli ...

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Antonio Maria Mazzoni Antonio Maria Mazzoni (4 January 1717 – 8 December 1785) was an Italian composer.Mozart Briefe und Aufzeichnungen: Gesamtausgabe Wilhelm A. Bauer, Leopold Mozart - 1971 -"„Maestro Mazzoni": Antonio Maria Mazzoni (1717 bis 1785), Schüler Pred ...

, composer (died 1785)Mozart Briefe und Aufzeichnungen: Gesamtausgabe Wilhelm A. Bauer, Leopold Mozart – 1971 -"„Maestro Mazzoni": Antonio Maria Mazzoni (1717 bis 1785), Schüler Predieris ( vgl. zu Z. 8), seit 1759 Domkapellmeister, seit 1736 Mitglied der Accademia Filarmonica, deren „Principe" er fünfmal war." * April 9 –

Georg Matthias Monn Georg Matthias Monn (born ''Johann Georg Mann'' 9 April 1717, Vienna – 3 October 1750, Vienna) was an Austrian composer, organist and music teacher whose works were fashioned in the transition from the Baroque to Classical period in music. ...

, composer (died 1750) * June 18 –

Johann Stamitz Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz (Czech: Jan Václav Antonín Stamic; 18 June 1717 – 27 March 1757) was a Bohemian composer and violinist. His two surviving sons, Carl and Anton Stamitz, were composers of the Mannheim school, of which Johann is ...

, violinist and composer (died 1757) * June 27 –

Giacomo Durazzo Count Giacomo Durazzo (27 April 1717 – 15 October 1794) was an Italian diplomat and man of theatre. Biography He was born into the House of Durazzo, one of the most important aristocratic families in Genoa. His older brother was the doge Marc ...

, operatic impresario (died 1794) *date unknown **

Leopold August Abel Leopold August Abel (24 March 1718 – 25 August 1794Walter Knape, Murray R. Charters and Simon McVeigh, "Leopold August Abel" in "Abel Family," ''Grove Music Online'' (accessed 28 August 2020).) was a German violinist and composer. He was born i ...

, violinist and composer (died 1794) **

Elisabeth Lillström Elisabeth Lillström née ''Söderman'' (1717 – 4 April 1791) was a Swedish stage actress and opera singer. She was one of the first professional actresses in Sweden and a member of the pioneer generation of '' Kungliga svenska skåde ...

, Swedish operatic soprano (d. 1791) ** William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymn writer (died 1791) *''probable'' – Marimutthu Pillai, composer of Carnatic music (died c.1787)

Deaths

February 11 Events Pre-1600 *660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. * 55 – The death under mysterious circumstances of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman empire, on the eve of his coming ...

– Johann Jakob Walther, violinist and composer (born 1650) * April 3 – Christian Friedrich Witt, composer, music editor and teacher (born c.1660) * October 13 –

Wolfgang Printz Wolfgang Caspar Printz (10 October 1641 – 13 October 1717), normally referred to as Wolfgang Printz (with sometimes the variation of Kaspar), was a German composer who studied theology and was appointed cantor at Promnitz, Treibel and Sorau ...

, composer and cantor (born 1641) *

November 26 Events Pre-1600 * 783 – The Asturian queen Adosinda is held at a monastery to prevent her king from retaking the throne from Mauregatus. *1161 – Battle of Caishi: A Song dynasty fleet fights a naval engagement with Jin dynasty ...

– Daniel Purcell, composer (born 1664) *''date unknown'' **

Pierre Bouteiller Pierre Bouteiller (1655–1717) was a French Baroque composer. His surviving works comprise 13 petits motets The ''petit motet'' ("little motet") was a genre of domestic sacred chamber music popular in France during the baroque era. It was the sa ...

, composer (born 1655) ** Goffredo Cappa, luthier (born 1644) **

Friedrich Erhard Niedt Friedrich Erhard Niedt (31 May 1674 – 1717) was a German jurist, music theorist, and composer. Niedt was born in Jena, and enrolled at the University of Jena in 1694, where he is thought to have studied law. Around 1700, he moved to Copenhagen, ...

, jurist, music theorist, and composer (born 1674) *''probable'' – Francisco Guerau, composer (born 1649)

References

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