1700 in music

1700 in music

The year 1700 in music involved some significant events.

Events

*William Croft returns to the Chapel Royal, where he had been educated, as a "gentleman organist".
*William Corbett becomes director of the New Theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields.
*Johann Sebastian Bach becomes a chorister at St. Michael's Church, Lüneburg.
*Tomaso Albinoni is employed as a violinist by Fernando Carlo, Duke of Mantua.
*An inventory of musical instruments kept by Prince Ferdinando de Medici provides the first evidence for the existence of the pianoforte.

Published popular music

Classical music

*John Blow - "Ode for New Year's Day"
*"Choice Collection of Ayres for the Harpsichord or Spinnet" by John Blow, Jeremiah Clarke, Francis Piggott, John Barrett and William Croft
*Arcangelo Corelli - "XII Suonati a violino e violone o cimbalo" (Op. 5), published in Rome
*Godfrey Keller - "The Royal Trumpett-Suite"
*Antonio Caldara "Maddalena ai piedi di Christo"
*Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni" sinfonie e concerti op. 2"

Opera

The following operas were composed:
*Carlo Agostino Badia - "La costanza d'Ulisse"
*Henry Purcell - "Dido and Aeneas"
*Alessandro Scarlatti - "Eracles"

Publications

*Jacques Boyvin - "Traité abrégé de l'accompagnement"

Births

*January 14 - Picander, librettist for Johann Sebastian Bach (died 1764)
*March 13 - Michel Blavet, flautist (died 1768)
*"unknown date" - Francesca Cuzzoni, opera singer (died 1770)
*"probable" - Jean-Baptiste Masse, cellist and composer (died c.1757)

Deaths

*January 16 - Antonio Draghi, opera composer (born c.1634)
*June 6 - Wespazjan Kochowski, historian, poet and musician (born 1633)


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