1712 in music

The year 1712 in music involved some significant events.

Events

*George Frideric Handel re-locates to London.
*Johann Georg Pisendel joins the court orchestra at Dresden.

Classical music

*Francesco Antonio Bonporti - Opus X for violin
*Henry Carey - Setting of "The Lord My Pasture Shall Prepare" (hymn) by Joseph Addison
*Benedetto Marcello - "Sonatas for Recorder and Basso Continuo"
*Francesco Maria Veracini - "Il trionfo della innocenza patrocinata da S. NiccoI" (oratorio)

Opera

*André Campra - "Idomenée"
*George Frideric Handel - "Il Pastor Fido"
* John Hughes (1677-1720) and John Ernest Galliard (d. 1747) - "Calypso and Telemachus" (opera)cite web |title= Document: Songs in the opera of Calypso & Telemachus |publisher= University of Rochester |url= https://urresearch.rochester.edu/handle/1802/3142 |accessdate= 2007-08-16]
*Antonio Lotti - "Porsenna"

Births

*January 17 - John Stanley (died 1786)
*January 24 - Frederick II of Prussia, enthusiastic amateur musician (died 1786)
*March 13 - Isfrid Kayser, composer
*June 28 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, polymath (died 1778)
*July - John Hebden, musician and composer (died 1765)
*December 1 - Bernhard Christian Weber

Deaths

*April 29 - Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer
*August 4 - Johann Jacob de Neufville, composer
*August 7 - Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau, organist at Halle (born 1663)
*August 24 - Thomas Bullis, composer
*August 26 - Sebastian Anton Scherer, composer
*September 30 - Johann Michael Zacher, composer
*November 6 - Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer (born 1654)
*"date unknown" - Carlo Alessandro Guidi, poet and songwriter (born 1650)

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