1700 in music
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The year 1700 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- John Eccles is appointed Master of the King's Musick.
- 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 Ferdinando 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.
Classical music
- Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni â Sinfonie e concerti op. 2
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 549a
- Christ, der du bist der helle Tag, BWV 766
- John Blow â Amphion Anglicus
- Jacques Boyvin â Livre d'orgue II
- Sébastien de Brossard â O miraculum!, SdB.006
- Antonio Caldara
- La frode della castitÃ
- Il trionfo dell'innocenza
- Choice Collection of Ayres for the Harpsichord or Spinnet by John Blow, Jeremiah Clarke, Francis Piggott, John Barrett and William Croft
- Jeremiah Clarke â Prince of Denmark's March (approximate date)
- Arcangelo Corelli â XII Suonati a violino e violone o cimbalo (Op. 5), published in Rome
- John Eccles â The Mad Lover
- Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer â Musicalischer Parnassus
- Godfrey Keller
- The Royal Trumpett-Suite
- 8 Trio Sonatas
- Johann Kuhnau â Musicalische Vorstellung einiger biblischer Historien (Biblical sonatas), published in Leipzig
- Johann Sigismund Kusser
- 6 Overture Suites 'Apollon Enjoué'
- 6 Overture Suites 'Festin des Muses'
- Isabella Leonarda â Motetti a voce sola con istromenti, Op.20
- Alessandro Scarlatti â Il rosignolo se scioglie il volo, H.318
Opera
- Carlo Agostino Badia â La costanza d'Ulisse
- André Campra â Hésione
- John Eccles â The Judgment of Paris
- Alessandro Scarlatti â Eracles
Publications
- Jacques Boyvin â Traité abrégé de l'accompagnement
- Johann Kuhnau â Der musicalische Quack-Salber
- Friedrich Erhardt Niedt â Musicalische Handleitung
Births
- January 14[1] â Picander, librettist for Johann Sebastian Bach (died 1764)
- March 13[2] â Michel Blavet, flautist (died 1768)
- April 2 â Francesca Cuzzoni, opera singer (died 1770)
- probable
- Sebastian Bodinus, composer (d. 1759)
- Jean-Baptiste Masse, cellist and composer (died c.1757)
Deaths
- January 16 â Antonio Draghi, opera composer (born c.1634)
- February 8 â Filippo Acciaiuoli, opera composer, librettist and manager (born 1637)
- June 6 â Wespazjan Kochowski, historian, poet and writer (born 1633)
- August Kühnel, viola da gamba player and composer (b. 1645)
- Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, violist and composer (born c.1640)