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The year 1700 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • John Eccles is appointed Master of the King's Musick.
  • William Croft returns to the Chapel Royal, where he had been educated, as a "gentleman organist".
  • William Corbett becomes director of the New Theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach becomes a chorister at St. Michael's Church, Lüneburg.
  • Tomaso Albinoni is employed as a violinist by Ferdinando Carlo, Duke of Mantua.
  • An inventory of musical instruments kept by Prince Ferdinando de Medici provides the first evidence for the existence of the pianoforte.

Classical music

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni – Sinfonie e concerti op. 2
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 549a
  • Christ, der du bist der helle Tag, BWV 766
  • John Blow – Amphion Anglicus
  • Jacques Boyvin – Livre d'orgue II
  • Sébastien de Brossard – O miraculum!, SdB.006
  • Antonio Caldara
  • La frode della castità
  • Il trionfo dell'innocenza
  • Choice Collection of Ayres for the Harpsichord or Spinnet by John Blow, Jeremiah Clarke, Francis Piggott, John Barrett and William Croft
  • Jeremiah Clarke – Prince of Denmark's March (approximate date)
  • Arcangelo Corelli – XII Suonati a violino e violone o cimbalo (Op. 5), published in Rome
  • John Eccles – The Mad Lover
  • Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer – Musicalischer Parnassus
  • Godfrey Keller
  • The Royal Trumpett-Suite
  • 8 Trio Sonatas
  • Johann Kuhnau – Musicalische Vorstellung einiger biblischer Historien (Biblical sonatas), published in Leipzig
  • Johann Sigismund Kusser
  • 6 Overture Suites 'Apollon Enjoué
  • 6 Overture Suites 'Festin des Muses
  • Isabella Leonarda – Motetti a voce sola con istromenti, Op.20
  • Alessandro Scarlatti – Il rosignolo se scioglie il volo, H.318

Opera

  • Carlo Agostino Badia – La costanza d'Ulisse
  • André Campra – Hésione
  • John Eccles – The Judgment of Paris
  • Alessandro Scarlatti – Eracles

Publications

  • Jacques Boyvin – Traité abrégé de l'accompagnement
  • Johann Kuhnau – Der musicalische Quack-Salber
  • Friedrich Erhardt Niedt – Musicalische Handleitung

Births

  • January 14 – Picander, librettist for Johann Sebastian Bach (died 1764)
  • March 13 – Michel Blavet, flautist (died 1768)
  • April 2 – Francesca Cuzzoni, opera singer (died 1770)
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  • Sebastian Bodinus, composer (d. 1759)
  • Jean-Baptiste Masse, cellist and composer (died c.1757)

Deaths

  • January 16 – Antonio Draghi, opera composer (born c.1634)
  • February 8 – Filippo Acciaiuoli, opera composer, librettist and manager (born 1637)
  • June 6 – Wespazjan Kochowski, historian, poet and writer (born 1633)
  • August Kühnel, viola da gamba player and composer (b. 1645)
  • Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, violist and composer (born c.1640)

References