# 1718 in music

The year 1718 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* Antonio Vivaldi tours Italy.
* Handel succeeds Johann Christoph Pepusch as Kapellmeister to the Duke of Chandos.
* Johann Joachim Quantz settles in Dresden.
* 14-year-old Carlos Seixas succeeds his father as organist at Coimbra Cathedral.

## Classical music

* Attilio Ariosti – Recueil de pièces
* William Babell – The Harpsichord Master Improved
* Johann Sebastian Bach
** Lobet den Herrn, alle seine Heerscharen, BWV Anh.5
** Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV Anh.77
** Der Himmel dacht auf Anhalts Ruhm und Glück, BWV 66a
** Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht, BWV 134a
** Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten, BWV 202
** Amore traditore, BWV 203
** Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her, BWV 738
** Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042
** Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor, BWV 1043
** Sinfonia in F major, BWV 1046a
** Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047 (likely composed)
** Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048
** Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major, BWV 1066
* Antonio Caldara – Il martirio di San Terenziano
* Pietro Castrucci – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1
* Francesco Bartolomeo Conti – Amore in Tessaglia
* Jean-François Dandrieu – Les caractères de la guerre
* Johann Ernst Prinz von Sachsen-Weimar – 6 Violin Concertos, Op. 1
* Christoph Graupner – 8 Partitas
* George Frideric Handel
** Esther (oratorio) HWV 50a
** Dolc' è pur d'amor l'affanno, HWV 109b
** L'aure grate, il fresco rio, HWV 121a
** As Pants the Hart, HWV 251b
* Francesco Manfredini – 12 Concertos, Op. 3 (inc. No. 12 in C major "Christmas Pastorale")
* Pierre Danican Philidor
** 4 Suites, Op. 2
** 3 Suites, Op. 3
* Georg Philipp Telemann
** 6 Suonatine per violino e cembalo (TWV 41)
** 6 Trio Sonatas (TWV 42)
** Concerto for 2 Recorders, TWV 52:a2
* Antonio Vivaldi – Qual in pioggia dorata, RV 686
* Giovanni Zamboni – Sonate d'intavolatura di leuto, Op. 1
* Jan Dismas Zelenka
** Capriccio in G major, ZWV 183
** Capriccio in F major, ZWV 184
** Collectaneorum Musicorum, Book II (compilation of Poglietti and Frescobaldi scores compiled during Zelenka's time in Vienna)

## Opera

* Toussaint Bertin de la Doué – Le Jugement de Paris
* Antonio Maria Bononcini – Griselda
* Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello – Tisbe, Premiered Jan. 26 in Stuttgart
* Antonio Caldara – Ifigenia in Aulide
* George Frideric Handel – Acis and Galatea HWV 49
* Nicola Porpora – Berenice regina d'Egitto
* Domenico Natale Sarro – Arsace
* Alessandro Scarlatti
** Cambise, R.356.64
** Il trionfo dell'onore
** Telemaco
* Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel – Diomedes (inc. aria "Bist du bei mir", later arranged by J.S. Bach as BWV 508)
* Antonio Vivaldi
** Armida al campo d'Egitto, RV 699
** Scanderbeg, RV 732
** Tito Manlio, RV 738

## Theoretical Writings

* Jean-François Dandrieu – Principes de l'Acompagnement du Clavecin

## Births

* January 18 – Christoph Ludwig Fehre, organist and composer (died 1772)
* April 14 – Emanuele Barbella, Italian composer and violinist (died 1777)
* August 9 – Placidus von Camerloher, German composer (died 1782)
* September 25 – Nicola Conforto, composer (died 1793)
* November 8 – Joseph Aloys Schmittbaur, composer (died 1809)
* November 21 – Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, music critic and composer (died 1795)
* date unknown
** Wenzel Raimund Birck, composer (died 1763)
** Mademoiselle Duval (nom de plume) (died c.1775)
** Richard Mudge, composer (died 1763)
** Giuseppe Scarlatti (or 1723), composer (died 1777)
* December 3 – Richard Duke, violin maker (died 1783)

## Deaths

* February 27 – Václav Karel Holan Rovenský, composer (born 1644)
* March – Richard Brind, organist and composer
* March 13 – Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns, composer (born 1637)
* April 1 – Johann Burchard Freystein, hymn writer (born 1671)
* November 26 – Bernardo Sabadini, opera composer