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The year 1709 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • Johann Georg Pisendel leaves his post in the court orchestra of Ansbach to travel to Leipzig, meeting Johann Sebastian Bach en route.
  • Antonio Stradivari makes the Viotti Stradivarius.
  • "Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre"

Classical music

  • William Babell – The Third Book of the Ladys Entertainment
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Alla breve in D major, BWV 589
  • Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 895
  • Fugue in A major on a Theme by Tomaso Albinoni, BWV 950 (approximate date)
  • Giovanni Battista Bassani – Acroama missale
  • Antonio Maria Bononcini – La decollazione di S. Giovanni Batista
  • Juan Cabanilles – Flores de Música
  • Antonio Caldara – Il nome più glorioso
  • Louis-Antoine Dornel – Livre de simphonies contenant six suites en trio avec une sonate en quatuor, Op. 1
  • Francesco Nicola Fago – Il Faraone Sommerso
  • Francesco Gasparini – L'Oracolo del Fato
  • Christoph Graupner
  • Die Krankheit so mich drückt, GWV 1155/09b
  • Siehe selig ist der Mensch, GWV 1162/09
  • Diese Zeit ist ein Spiel der Eitelkeit, GWV 1165/09
  • (see List of cantatas by Christoph Graupner)
  • George Frideric Handel
  • Irene, idolo mio, HWV 120b
  • Lungi da me, pensier tiranno, HWV 125b
  • Lungi da voi, che siete poli, HWV 126c
  • Mi palpita il cor, HWV 132
  • Pensieri notturni di Filli, HWV 134
  • Solitudini care, amata libertà, HWV 163
  • Francesco Onofrio Manfredini – 12 Sinfonie da chiesa, Op.2
  • Michel Montéclair – Cantata: La Mort de Didon
  • – Pièces de violle, Livre 1
  • James Paisible - The Royal Portuguez. Mr. Isaac's new dance made for Her Majesty's Birthday 1709...
  • Johann Christoph Pepusch – 6 Recorder Sonatas, Op.2a
  • Giovanni Battista Reali – 10 Trio Sonatas, Op.1
  • Agostino Steffani – Amor vien dal destino (Il turno)
  • Giuseppe Torelli – Concerti Grossi, Op. 8: no 6 in G minor "Christmas Concerto", published posthumously
  • Antonio Vivaldi – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op.2
  • Jan Dismas Zelenka – Immisit Dominus pestilentiam, ZWV 58

Opera

  • Emanuele d'Astorga – Dafne
  • Michele Falco – Lo Lollo pisciaportelle
  • George Frideric Handel – Agrippina HWV 6
  • Marin Marais – Sémélé
  • Giuseppe Maria Orlandini – L'odio e l'amore
  • Agostino Steffani – Tassilone

Births

  • January 1 – Johann Heinrich Hartmann Bätz, organ builder (died 1770)
  • January 24 – Dom Bédos de Celles, Benedictine monk and pipe organ builder (died 1779)
  • February 16 (baptised) – Charles Avison, composer and organist (died 1770)
  • March 27 – William Flackton, viola player and composer (died 1798)
  • April 14 – Charles Collé, songwriter and dramatist (died 1783)
  • June 25 – Francesco Araja, composer (died 1762–1770)
  • August 8 – Hermann Anton Gelinek, monk and musician (died 1779)
  • October 25 – Georg Gebel (the younger), composer (died 1753)
  • November 22 – Franz Benda, violinist and composer (died 1786)
  • December 1 – František Xaver Richter, composer (died 1789)
  • date unknown – Christoph Schaffrath, composer (died 1763)
  • probable – Richard Charke, violinist, composer, operatic baritone, and playwright (died c. 1738)

Deaths

  • February 8 – Giuseppe Torelli, violinist and composer (born 1658)
  • July 17 – Pascal Collasse, composer (baptized 1649)
  • date unknown
  • Cristofaro Caresana, operatic tenor, organist and composer (born c.1640)
  • Giovanni Grancino, luthier (born 1637)

References