1704 in music
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The year 1704 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- Johann Christoph Pepusch arrives in London.
- Following her husband's death, Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre begins hosting concerts in her home.
- Antonio Vivaldi becomes general superintendent of music at the Ospedale della Pietà , Venice.
- Johann Jacob Bach becomes an oboist in the army of King Charles XII of Sweden, inspiring Johann Sebastian to write a Capriccio on the Absence of His Most Beloved Brother.
- During a performance of Johann Mattheson's opera, Cleopatra, the composer almost kills his friend, Georg Frideric Handel, in a violent quarrel.
Classical music
- Henricus Albicastro â [12] Concerti, Op.7
- Attilo Ariosti â La madre dei Maccabei
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Antonio Caldara â Il trionfo dell'innocenza (Second edition)
- Louis-Nicolas Clérambault â Livre de pièces de clavecin
- François Couperin â 7 Versets du motet composé de l'ordre du roy, 1704
- William Croft â 6 Sonatas of Two Parts
- Michel Richard Delalande â Dominus regnavit, S.65
- George Frideric Handel â Oboe Concerto in G minor, HWV 287
- Reinhard Keiser â Der blutige und sterbende Jesus (by Christian Friedrich Hunold)
- Michele Mascitti â [12] Sonate, Op.1
- Jean-Baptiste Morin â Motets à une et deux voix, Livre I
- James Paisible â Musick perform'd before Her Majesty and the new King of Spain
- Alessandro Scarlatti
- Perdono, Amor, perdono, H.554
- S. Casimiro, re di Pononia
- Johann Schenck â 2 Sonatas for 2 Viols
- Giovanni Battista Tibaldi â 12 Trio Sonatas, Op.2
Opera
- Attilo Ariosti â I gloriosi presagi di Scipione Africano
- Giovanni Bononcini
- Il fiore delle eroine
- Il ritorno di Giulio Cesare
- Francesco Bartolomeo Conti â Alba Cornelia
- Johann Mattheson â Die unglückselige Cleopatra
- Carlo Francesco Pollarolo â Irene (revised by Domenico Scarlatti for performance at Naples).
Births
- May 7 â Carl Heinrich Graun, composer and singer (died 1759)
- June 11 â Carlos Seixas, composer (died 1742)
- October 2 â FrantiÅ¡ek Tůma, organist and composer (died 1774)
- December 31 â Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, organist (died 1761)
- probable â Claude Parisot, organ builder (died 1784)
Deaths
- February 7 â Lady Mary Dering, composer (born 1629)
- February 23 â Georg Muffat, composer (born 1653)
- February 24 â Marc-Antoine Charpentier, composer (born 1643)
- February 25 â Isabella Leonarda, composer of church music (born 1620)
- April â Georg Christoph Strattner, friend and colleague of Bach at Lüneburg (born c. 1644)
- May 3 â Heinrich Ignaz Biber, violinist and composer (born 1644)
- September 6 â Francesco Provenzale, composer (born 1624)
- November 2 â Johann Jakob Walther, violinist and composer (born 1650)
- November 16 â Chikka Devaraja, ruler of Mysore, composer and music theorist (born 1673)[1]
- December 14
- Selim I Giray, Crimean khan, also known as a poet and musician (born 1631)
- Joseph-François Duché de Vancy, librettist (born 1668)