1717 in music

1717 in music

The year 1717 in music involved some significant events.

Events

*July 13 - Domenico Zipoli arrives in Buenos Aires with 52 other Jesuit missionaries.
*July 17 - George Frideric Handel's "Water Music" is performed on the River Thames.
*Johann Sebastian Bach is appointed Kapellmeister by Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen.

Classical music

*François Couperin - "Pièces de clavecin", book 2
*Georg Friedrich Handel - "Water Music"
*John Weaver - "The Loves of Mars and Venus" (ballet)

Opera

*Antonio Maria Bononcini - "La conquista del vello d'oro"
*Antonio Vivaldi - "Penelope la Casta" and "L'Incoronazione di Dario"

Births

*April 9 - Georg Matthias Monn, composer (died 1750)
*June 19 ("probable") - Johann Stamitz, violinist and composer (died 1757)
*June 27 - Giacomo Durazzo, operatic impresario (died 1794)
*"exact date unknown" - William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymn writer (died 1791)

Deaths

*February 11 - Johann Jacob Walther, composer
*November 26 - Daniel Purcell, composer (born 1664)


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