- 1716 in music
The year 1716 in music involved some significant events.
Events
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Georg Philipp Telemann visits Eisenach, resulting in an appointment as visitingKapellmeister .
*Jonathan Swift conceives the idea for theBeggar's Opera .
*Giuseppe Tartini hearsFrancesco Maria Veracini play the violin, and is inspired.Classical music
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William Babell - "The Fourth Book of the Ladys Entertainment"
*François Couperin - "L'art de toucher le clavecin"
*Michel Montéclair - "Musette (Les festes de l'été)"
*Alessandro Scarlatti - "Ombre tacite e sole"
*Georg Philipp Telemann - "Concerto for 3 Trumpets, 2 Oboes, Timpani and Strings in D major"
*Francesco Maria Veracini - "Overture no 5 in B flat major"
*Antonio Vivaldi - "6 Violin Sonatas" (Op. 5)
*Domenico Zipoli - "Sonate d'intavolatura per organo e cimbalo"Opera
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Antonio Maria Bononcini - "Sesostri re d'Egitto"
*Giuseppe Maria Buini - "Armida abbandonata"
*Francesco Ciampi - "Timocrate"
*Johann Christoph Pepusch - "Apollo and Daphne"
*Antonio Vivaldi - "Arsilda Regina di Ponto" and "La Constanza"Publications
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Johann Heinrich Buttstett - "Ut, mi, sol, re, fa, la, tota musica et harmonia aeterna"Births
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February 9 -Johann Trier , composer
*March 21 -Josef Seger , composer (died1782 )
*April 12 -Felice de Giardini , violinist and composerDeaths
*"date unknown" -
Johann Aegidus Bach , organist and uncle of Johann Sebastian (born1645 )
*"date unknown" -Carlo Giuseppe Testore , double bass maker (born c.1665 )
* 6 December,Benedictus Buns Dutch religious composer
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