# 1715 in music

The year 1715 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* September – Presumed staging of first Three Choirs Festival in England.
* Comédie en vaudeville is staged for the first time in Paris.
* Francesco Geminiani performs at the court of King George I of Great Britain, accompanied by Handel.

## Classical music

* Tomaso Albinoni – 12 Concerti a cinque, Op. 7
* Johann Sebastian Bach
** Der Himmel lacht! die Erde jubiliert, BWV 31
** Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn, BWV 132
** Nur jedem das Seine, BWV 163
** Ach! ich sehe, itzt, da ich zur Hochzeit gehe, BWV 162
** O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad, BWV 165
** Barmherziges Herze der ewigen Liebe, BWV 185
** Valet will ich dir geben, BWV 736
** English Suites (speculated year of composition) BWV 806–811
** Suite in F minor, BWV 823
** Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 894
** Fugue in A major, BWV 949
* Francesco Antonio Bonporti – Concerti a quattro, Op. 11
* Antonio Caldara – Motetti a due e tre voci, Op. 4
* François Couperin Concerts royaux
* George Frideric Handel
** Brockes-Passion, HWV 48
** Concerto Grosso in B-flat major, HWV 313
** Concerto Grosso in D minor, HWV 316
** Concerto Grosso in D major, HWV 317
* Jacques Hotteterre – Pièces pour la flûte traversiere, Op. 5
* Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre – Cantates Françoises, Livre 3
* Jean-Baptiste Loeillet – 12 Recorder Sonatas, Op. 3
* Alessandro Marcello – Oboe Concerto in D minor, S.Z799
* Gaetano Meneghetti – Violin Concerto in A major
* James Paisible – The Friendship, Mr. Isaac's new dance for the year 1715...
* Jean-Philippe Rameau – Thétis, RCT 28
* Johann Ernst Prinz von Sachsen-Weimar – Violin Concerto in G major
* Alessandro Scarlatti
** Sinfonie di concerto grosso
** Stabat Mater.
* Johann Christian Schickhardt – 6 Concertos for 4 Recorders and Continuo, Op. 19
* Georg Philipp Telemann
** 6 Sonates à violon seul accompagné par le clavessin
** Sonata à 4, TWV 43:a5
* Carlo Tessarini – 12 Concerti a cinque, Op. 1
* Antonio Vivaldi
** Violin Concerto in A major, RV 345
** Violin Concerto in B-flat major, RV 363
* John Walsh (pub.) – The Bird Fancyer's Delight
* Jan Dismas Zelenka – Capriccio in D major, ZWV 182

## Opera

* Giovanni Bononcini – Astarto
* George Frideric Handel – Amadigi di Gaula
* Johann Augustin Kobelius – Der unschuldig verdammte Heinrich, Fürst von Wallis
* Giuseppe Maria Orlandini – Bacocco e Serpilla
* Alessandro Scarlatti – Il Tigrane
* Domenico Scarlatti – La Dirindina
* Antonio Vivaldi – Nerone Fatto Cesare

## Births

* January 12 – Jacques Duphly, composer (died 1789)
* January 29 – Georg Christoph Wagenseil, composer (died 1777)
* April 11 – John Alcock, composer
* April 19 – James Nares, composer (died 1783)
* April 23 – Johann Friedrich Doles, composer (died 1797)
* April 28 – Franz Sparry, composer (died 1767)
* May 11
** Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, organist and son of Johann Sebastian Bach (died 1739)
** Ignazio Fiorillo, composer (died 1787)
* November 10 – Johann August Landvoigt, librettist and musician (died 1766)
* November 16 – Girolamo Abos, composer (died 1760)
* December – Isabella Lampe, soprano and wife of John Frederick Lampe (died 1795)
* December 12 – Gennaro Manna, composer (died 1779)
* date unknown
** Giovanni Battista Casali, musician (died 1792)
** William Felton – (died 1769)
** Francesco Zoppis, composer (died after 1781)

## Deaths

* January 15 – Caspar Neumann, hymnist (born 1648)
* January 22 – Marc'Antonio Ziani, composer (born c.1653)
* February 3 – Gottfried Vopelius, composer
* July 30 – Nahum Tate, hymn-writer and lyricist (born 1652)
* September 2 – Constantin Christian Dedekind, composer
* September 6 – Basilius Petritz, German composer and Kreuzkantor in Dresden (born 1647)
* October 6 – Melchior Hoffmann, composer
* date unknown
** Antonio de Salazar, composer (born c.1650)
** Diego Xaraba, Spanish organist and composer (born 1652)
* probable
** Daniel Eberlin, composer (born 1647)
** Vasily Polikarpovich Titov, Russian composer