1708 in music
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The year 1708 in music involved some significant musical events and new works.
Events
- Alessandro Scarlatti returns to Naples from Venice.
- Johann Sebastian Bach becomes organist and concert-master at the Weimar court.
- Arcangelo Corelli returns to Rome and joins the household of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni.
Published popular music
- Lyra Davidica (hymns)
- Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Published classical music
- Tomaso Albinoni â 6 Sonate da chiesa, T.So 26â31, Op. 4
- Louis de Caix d'Hervelois â Pièces de viole, Livre 1
- Andre Campra â Cantates françoises
- Francisco José de Castro â 8 Concertos, Op. 4
- Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco â 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1
- Pierre Du Mage â Livre d'orgue
- Jean-Baptiste Stuck â Cantates françaises Livre II
Classical music
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Gott ist mein König, BWV 71
- Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV 143
- Kyrie in F major, BWV 233a
- Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537
- Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 545a
- Toccata and Fugue in E major, BWV 566 (Authorship disputed)
- Fugue on a Theme by Giovanni Legrenzi, BWV 574
- Fugue in C minor, BWV 575
- Passacaglia in C minor, BWV 582
- Heutâ triumphiret Gottes Sohn, BWV 630
- Fantasia super 'Jesu, meine Freude', BWV 713
- Suite in A major, BWV 832
- Praeludium et partita dei tuono terzo, BWV 833
- Toccata in D minor, BWV 913
- Fugue in C major, BWV 946
- Antonio Maria Bononcini
- Mentre in placido sonno
- La presa di Tebe
- Tutta fiamme e tutta ardore
- Antonio Caldara â Il martirio di Santa Caterina
- Henri Desmarets â Usque quo Domine
- George Frederic Handel
- La Resurrezione (The Resurrection) (oratorio)
- Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, HWV 72
- Ah, crudel! nel pianto mio, HWV 78
- Aminta e Filide, HWV 83
- Cuopre tal volta il cielo, HWV 98
- Dalla guerra amorosa, HWV 102a
- Ditemi, o piante, HWV 107
- Lungi n'andò Fileno, HWV 128
- Nel dolce tempo, HWV 135b
- Nell'africane selve, HWV 136
- Olinto pastore, Tebro fiume, Gloria, HWV 143
- Quando sperasti, o core, HWV 153
- Se pari è la tua fè, HWV 158a
- Sento là che ristretto, HWV 161a
- Jacques-Martin Hotteterre â Pièces pour la flûte traversiere, Op. 2
- Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre â Cantates françaises sur des sujets tirés de lâécriture, Livre I
- Benedetto Marcello â 12 Concerti à 5, Op. 1
- Johann Mattheson â 12 Flute Sonatas, Op. 1
- Johann Pachelbel
- An Wasserflüssen Babylon, P. 18
- Plauener Orgelbuch
- James Paisible â The Saltarella. Mr. Isaac's new dance made for Her Majesty's Birthday, 1708...
- Bernardo Pasquini â Passagaglie and Variation
- Alessandro Scarlatti â Oratorio per la Passione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo
- Georg Philipp Telemann â Singet dem Herrn, TWV 1:1748
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Cello Concerto in F major, RV 410
- Concerto in A major, RV 585
- Sonata for Violin, Oboe, Organ, Chalumeau and Continuo, RV 779
Opera
- Giovanni Bononcini â Mario fuggitivo
- Antonio Caldara â Più bel nome
- André Campra â Hippodamie
- Johann Joseph Fux â Pulcheria, K.303
- George Frideric Handel
- Antonio Literes â Acis y Galatea
- Nicola Porpora â L'Agrippina
Births
- January 26 â William Hayes (composer), organist, singer, conductor and composer (died 1777)
- February 8 â Václav Jan KopÅiva, composer (died 1789)
- February 11 â Egidio Duni, composer of opera comique (died 1775)
- February 25 â Felix Benda, composer (died 1768)
- April 6 â Georg Reutter II, composer of church music (died 1772)
- May 5 â Johann Adolf Scheibe, composer and critic (died 1776)
- June 19 â Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, composer (died 1763)
- date unknown
- Lavinia Fenton, actress, the original Polly Peachum (died 1760)
- Johann Adolph Scheibe, composer (died 1776)
- William Tuckey, composer (died 1781)
Deaths
- April 19 â Angiola Teresa Moratori Scanabecchi, composer and painter (born 1662)
- May 13 â Giovanni Battista Draghi, composer and keyboardist (born c.1640)
- September 3 â Christian Liebe, organist and composer (born 1654)
- September 26 - Giovanni Battista Bianchini, composer, organist, and choir conductor (born after 1650)[1]
- October 1 (or January 10) â John Blow, composer (born 1649)
- date unknown
- Moll Davis, singer (born c. 1648)
- Johannes Kelpius, mystic and musician (born 1673)
- Thomas Pereira, musician (born 1645)
- Bernard Smith, organ maker (born c.1630)[2]