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The year 1716 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • July 1 – Domenico Zipoli joins the Society of Jesus. Soon afterwards he is sent on a mission to Paraguay.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann visits Eisenach, resulting in an appointment as visiting Kapellmeister.
  • Antonio Stradivari – completes Le Messie violin (The Messiah Stradivarius)
  • Jonathan Swift conceives the idea for the Beggar's Opera.
  • Giuseppe Tartini hears Francesco Maria Veracini play the violin, and is inspired.<!--The Veracini bio article suggests this may not be exactly the right word.-->

Classical music

  • William Babell – The Fourth Book of the Ladys Entertainment
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Wachet, betet, seid bereit allezeit!, BWV 70a
  • Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147a
  • Mein Gott, wie lang, ach lange, BWV 155
  • Komm, du süsse Todesstunde, BWV 161
  • Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV 186a
  • In dir ist Freude, BWV 615
  • Diogenio Bigaglia – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op.&nbsp;1
  • Louis-Nicolas Clérambault – Cantates françoises, Book 3
  • François Couperin
  • Second livre de pièces de clavecin
  • L'art de toucher le clavecin
  • Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op.&nbsp;4
  • Domenico Elmi – Oboe Concerto in A minor
  • Francesco Geminiani – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op.&nbsp;1
  • Georgio Gentili – 12 Violin Concertos, Op.&nbsp;6
  • Christoph Graupner
  • Verleih dass ich aus Herzensgrund, GWV&nbsp;1114/16
  • Muss ich denn noch ferner leiden, GWV&nbsp;1145/16
  • Gott ist für uns gestorben, GWV&nbsp;1152/16
  • George Frideric Handel
  • Concerto Grosso in F major, HWV&nbsp;315
  • 6 Fugues, HWV 605–610
  • Johann Kuhnau – Wenn ihr fröhlich seid an euren Festen
  • Jean-Baptiste Loeillet – 12 Recorder Sonatas, Op.&nbsp;4
  • Michel Montéclair – Musette (Les festes de l'été)
  • Giovanni Mossi – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op.&nbsp;1
  • Alessandro Scarlatti – Ombre tacite e sole
  • Georg Philipp Telemann
  • Concerto for 3 Trumpets, 2 Oboes, Timpani and Strings in D major
  • Brockes Passion, TWV&nbsp;5:1
  • Germania mit ihrem Chor, TWV&nbsp;12:1c
  • Kleine Kammermusik
  • Francesco Maria Veracini
  • Six Overtures (first performed, Venice)
  • 12 Sonate a violino o flauto solo e basso (manuscript)
  • Robert di Visée – Pièces de théorbe et de luth
  • Antonio Vivaldi
  • La stravaganza, Op.&nbsp;4
  • 6 Violin Sonatas, Op.&nbsp;5
  • 12 Concerti, Op.7
  • Violin Concerto in C major, RV&nbsp;195
  • Violin Concerto in D major, RV&nbsp;205
  • Violin Concerto in D minor, RV&nbsp;245
  • Violin Concerto in F major, RV&nbsp;292
  • Violin Concerto in G minor, RV 319
  • Violin Concerto in A major, RV&nbsp;340
  • Violin Concerto in A major, RV&nbsp;343
  • Gloria in D major, RV 589
  • Juditha Triumphans, RV&nbsp;644
  • Recorder Sonata in G major, RV&nbsp;806
  • Jan Dismas Zelenka
  • Deus dux fortissime, ZWV&nbsp;60
  • Da pacem Domine, ZWV&nbsp;167
  • Domenico Zipoli – Sonate d'intavolatura per organo e cimbalo, Op.&nbsp;1

Opera

  • Antonio Maria Bononcini – Sesostri re d'Egitto
  • Giuseppe Maria Buini – Armida abbandonata
  • Francesco Ciampi – Timocrate
  • Francesco Bartolomeo Conti – Il finto Policare
  • Johann Christoph Pepusch – Apollo and Daphne
  • Carlo Francesco Pollarolo – Ariodante
  • Alessandro Scarlatti – Carlo re d'Allemagna
  • Antonio Vivaldi
  • Arsilda Regina di Ponto
  • La costanza trionfante degl'amori e degl'odii, RV 706
  • L'incoronazione di Dario, RV 719

Publications

  • Johann Heinrich Buttstett – Ut, mi, sol, re, fa, la, tota musica et harmonia aeterna
  • François Campion – Traité d'accompagnement et de composition
  • Estienne Roger – Concerti a Cinque con Violini, Oboè, Violetta, Violoncello e Basso Continuo del Signori G. Valentini, A. Vivaldi, T. Albinoni, F. M. Veracini, G. St. Martin, A. Marcello, G. Rampin, A. Predieri

Births

  • February 9 – Johann Trier, composer
  • March 21 – Josef Seger, composer (died 1782)
  • April 12 – Felice Giardini, violinist and composer (died 1796)
  • c. 1716/17 – John Beard, tenor and actor-manager (died 1791)

Deaths

  • August 3 – Sebastián Durón, composer (b. 1660)
  • September 25 – Johann Christoph Pez, composer (b. 1664)
  • October 1 – Giovanni Battista Bassani, composer, violinist and organist (born c. 1650)
  • November – Johann Aegidus Bach, organist and uncle of Johann Sebastian (born 1645)
  • December 1 – Johann Samuel Drese, composer (b. c. 1644)
  • December 6 – Benedictus Buns, Dutch religious composer (b. 1642)
  • date unknown – Carlo Giuseppe Testore, double bass maker (born c. 1665)