# 1709 in music

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

* "Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre"

## Classical music

* William Babell – 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 – Acroama missale
* Antonio Maria Bononcini – La decollazione di S. Giovanni Batista
* Juan Cabanilles – Flores de Música
* Antonio Caldara – Il nome più glorioso
* Louis-Antoine Dornel – Livre de simphonies contenant six suites en trio avec une sonate en quatuor, Op. 1
* Francesco Nicola Fago – Il Faraone Sommerso
* Francesco Gasparini – 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 – 12 Sinfonie da chiesa, Op.2
* Michel Montéclair – Cantata: La Mort de Didon
* Jacques Morel [fr] – 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 – 6 Recorder Sonatas, Op.2a
* Giovanni Battista Reali – 10 Trio Sonatas, Op.1
* Agostino Steffani – Amor vien dal destino (Il turno)
* Giuseppe Torelli – Concerti Grossi, Op. 8: no 6 in G minor "Christmas Concerto", published posthumously
* Antonio Vivaldi – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op.2
* Jan Dismas Zelenka – Immisit Dominus pestilentiam, ZWV 58

## Opera

* Emanuele d'Astorga – Dafne
* Michele Falco – Lo Lollo pisciaportelle
* George Frideric Handel – Agrippina HWV 6
* Marin Marais – Sémélé
* Giuseppe Maria Orlandini – L'odio e l'amore
* Agostino Steffani – Tassilone

## Births

* January 1 – Johann Heinrich Hartmann Bätz, organ builder (died 1770)
* January 24 – Dom Bédos de Celles, Benedictine monk and pipe organ builder (died 1779)
* February 16 (baptised) – Charles Avison, composer and organist (died 1770)
* March 27 – William Flackton, viola player and composer (died 1798)
* April 14 – Charles Collé, songwriter and dramatist (died 1783)
* June 25 – Francesco Araja, composer (died 1762–1770)
* August 8 – Hermann Anton Gelinek, monk and musician (died 1779)
* October 25 – Georg Gebel (the younger), composer (died 1753)
* November 22 – Franz Benda, violinist and composer (died 1786)
* December 1 – František Xaver Richter, composer (died 1789)
* date unknown – Christoph Schaffrath, composer (died 1763)
* probable – Richard Charke, violinist, composer, operatic baritone, and playwright (died c. 1738)

## Deaths

* February 8 – Giuseppe Torelli, violinist and composer (born 1658)
* July 17 – Pascal Collasse, composer (baptized 1649)
* date unknown
** Cristofaro Caresana, operatic tenor, organist and composer (born c.1640)
** Giovanni Grancino, luthier (born 1637)