1709 in music
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The year 1709 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- Johann Georg Pisendel leaves his post in the court orchestra of Ansbach to travel to Leipzig, meeting Johann Sebastian Bach en route.
- Antonio Stradivari makes the Viotti Stradivarius.
Published popular music
Classical music
- William Babell â The Third Book of the Ladys Entertainment
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Alla breve in D major, BWV 589
- Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 895
- Fugue in A major on a Theme by Tomaso Albinoni, BWV 950 (approximate date)
- Giovanni Battista Bassani â Acroama missale
- Antonio Maria Bononcini â La decollazione di S. Giovanni Batista
- Juan Cabanilles â Flores de Música
- Antonio Caldara â Il nome più glorioso
- Louis-Antoine Dornel â Livre de simphonies contenant six suites en trio avec une sonate en quatuor, Op. 1
- Francesco Nicola Fago â Il Faraone Sommerso
- Francesco Gasparini â L'Oracolo del Fato
- Christoph Graupner
- Die Krankheit so mich drückt, GWV 1155/09b
- Siehe selig ist der Mensch, GWV 1162/09
- Diese Zeit ist ein Spiel der Eitelkeit, GWV 1165/09
- (see List of cantatas by Christoph Graupner)
- George Frideric Handel
- Irene, idolo mio, HWV 120b
- Lungi da me, pensier tiranno, HWV 125b
- Lungi da voi, che siete poli, HWV 126c
- Mi palpita il cor, HWV 132
- Pensieri notturni di Filli, HWV 134
- Solitudini care, amata libertà , HWV 163
- Francesco Onofrio Manfredini â 12 Sinfonie da chiesa, Op.2
- Michel Montéclair â Cantata: La Mort de Didon
- Jacques Morel â Pièces de violle, Livre 1
- James Paisible - The Royal Portuguez. Mr. Isaac's new dance made for Her Majesty's Birthday 1709...
- Johann Christoph Pepusch â 6 Recorder Sonatas, Op.2a
- Giovanni Battista Reali â 10 Trio Sonatas, Op.1
- Agostino Steffani â Amor vien dal destino (Il turno)
- Giuseppe Torelli â Concerti Grossi, Op. 8: no 6 in G minor "Christmas Concerto", published posthumously
- Antonio Vivaldi â 12 Violin Sonatas, Op.2
- Jan Dismas Zelenka â Immisit Dominus pestilentiam, ZWV 58
Opera
- Emanuele d'Astorga â Dafne
- Michele Falco â Lo Lollo pisciaportelle
- George Frideric Handel â Agrippina HWV 6[1]
- Marin Marais â Sémélé[2]
- Giuseppe Maria Orlandini â L'odio e l'amore
- Agostino Steffani â Tassilone
Births
- January 1 â Johann Heinrich Hartmann Bätz, organ builder (died 1770)
- January 24 â Dom Bédos de Celles, Benedictine monk and pipe organ builder (died 1779)
- February 16 (baptised) â Charles Avison, composer and organist (died 1770)
- March 27 â William Flackton, viola player and composer (died 1798)
- April 14 â Charles Collé, songwriter and dramatist (died 1783)
- June 25 â Francesco Araja, composer (died 1762â1770)
- August 8 â Hermann Anton Gelinek, monk and musician (died 1779)
- October 25 â Georg Gebel (the younger), composer (died 1753)
- November 22 â Franz Benda, violinist and composer (died 1786)
- December 1 â FrantiÅ¡ek Xaver Richter, composer (died 1789)
- date unknown â Christoph Schaffrath, composer (died 1763)
- probable â Richard Charke, violinist, composer, operatic baritone, and playwright (died c. 1738)
Deaths
- February 8 â Giuseppe Torelli, violinist and composer (born 1658)
- July 17 â Pascal Collasse, composer (baptized 1649)
- date unknown
- Cristofaro Caresana, operatic tenor, organist and composer (born c.1640)
- Giovanni Grancino, luthier (born 1637)