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The year 1712 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • March 18 – Georg Philipp Telemann arrives in Frankfurt to take up his new post as city director of music and Kapellmeister at the Barfüsserkirche.
  • March 25 – Approximate date of the première of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Mark Passion pastiche at the chapel of Wilhelmsburg Castle (two movements by Bach).
  • September – George Frideric Handel re-locates to London, with the permission of his patron, the future King George I of Great Britain.
  • Johann Georg Pisendel joins the court orchestra at Dresden.

Classical music

  • Tomaso Albinoni – 12 Trattenimenti armonici, Op.&nbsp;6
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV&nbsp;541
  • Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major, BWV 564
  • Fantasia in G major, BWV 572
  • Toccata in F-sharp minor, BWV 910
  • Fugue in B minor, BWV 951
  • Fughetta in C minor, BWV 961
  • Suite in E minor for lute, BWV 996
  • Francesco Antonio Bonporti – 10 Inventions, Op.&nbsp;10
  • Pieter Bustijn – 9 Suittes pour le clavessin
  • Henry Carey – Setting of "The Lord My Pasture Shall Prepare" (hymn) by Joseph Addison
  • Arcangelo Corelli – Twelve Concerti Grossi, Op.&nbsp;6 (composed)
  • Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco
  • Concerti a quattro da chiesa, Op. 2
  • 12 Trio Sonatas, Op.&nbsp;3
  • Christoph Graupner
  • Jesus ist und bleibt mein Leben, GWV&nbsp;1107/12
  • Mein Gott, warum hast du mich verlassen?, GWV&nbsp;1118/12a
  • Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, GWV&nbsp;1143/12
  • Demütiget euch nun, GWV 1144/12
  • Zähle meine Flucht, GWV 1154/12b
  • Wer da glaubet dass Jesus sei der Christ, GWV&nbsp;1171/12
  • George Frideric Handel – O Sing unto the Lord a New Song, HWV 249a
  • Jacques-Martin Hotteterre
  • Sonates en trio pour les flûtes traversières et a bec, violon, hautbois, Op.&nbsp;3
  • Suite in B minor, Op. 4
  • Reinhard Keiser – Brockes-Passion (Text by Barthold Heinrich Brockes)
  • Ferdinando Antonio Lazzari – Concerto in D major
  • John Loeillet – Lessons for the Harpsichord or Spinet
  • Benedetto Marcello – 12 Recorder Sonatas, Op.&nbsp;2
  • Jean-Baptiste Morin – Cantates françoises à une et trois voix, Op.&nbsp;6
  • James Paisible – The Gloucester. Mr. Isaac's new dance, made for Her Majesty's Birth Day...
  • Anne Danican Philidor – Premier livre de pièces
  • Giovanni Antonion Piani – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op.&nbsp;1
  • Charles Piroye – Pièces d'orgue
  • Jean-Féry Rebel – Boutade
  • Georg Philipp Telemann
  • Das ist meine Freude, TWV&nbsp;8:17
  • Ouverture-Suite, TWV&nbsp;55:A5 (approx.)
  • Francesco Maria Veracini – Il trionfo della innocenza patrocinata da S. NiccoI (oratorio)
  • Antonio Vivaldi – Violin Concerto in D major, RV&nbsp;212
  • Johann Gottfried Walther – Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht
  • Jan Dismas Zelenka – Attendite et videte, ZWV&nbsp;59

Opera

  • André Campra – Idomenée
  • André Cardinal Destouches – Callirhoé
  • George Frideric Handel
  • Il Pastor Fido
  • Teseo, HWV 9 (composed)
  • John Hughes (1677–1720) and Johann Ernst Galliard (d. 1747) – Calypso and Telemachus (opera)
  • Antonio Lotti – Porsenna

Births

  • January
  • David Owen, harpist (died 1741)
  • Cecilia Young, soprano, wife of Thomas Arne (died 1789)
  • January 17 – John Stanley, composer and organist (died 1786)
  • January 24 – Frederick II of Prussia, enthusiastic amateur musician and composer (died 1786)
  • January 26 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer and head of a musical dynasty (died 1781)
  • June 28 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, polymath (died 1778)
  • July – John Hebden, musician and composer (died 1765)
  • date unknown
  • Marimutthu Pillai, Carnatic music composer (died 1787)
  • John Christopher Smith, composer (died 1795)
  • Sophia Schröder, vocalist at the Kungliga Hovkapellet (died 1750)
  • probable – Kane O'Hara, playwright and musician (died 1782)

Deaths

  • April – Lambert Chaumont, organist and composer (born c.1630)
  • April 29 – Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer
  • August 7 – Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau, organist at Halle (born 1663)
  • August 26 – Sebastian Anton Scherer, composer (born 1631)
  • September 30 – Johann Michael Zächer, composer (born 1649)
  • November 6 – Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer (born 1654)
  • date unknown
  • Buhurizade Mustafa Itri, composer and performer of Turkish classical music (born c.1640)
  • Juan de Araujo, Spanish composer active in South and Central America (born 1646)
  • Carlo Alessandro Guidi, poet and songwriter (born 1650)
  • probable – Carlo Ambrogio Lonati, violinist, composer and singer

References