# 1717 in music

The year 1717 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* March 26 – Johann Sebastian Bach premieres his Weimarer Passion at the chapel of Friedrichstein Castle in Gotha
* July 13 – Domenico Zipoli arrives in Buenos Aires with 52 other Jesuit missionaries.
* July 17 – George Frideric Handel's Water Music is performed on the River Thames.
* August – Handel becomes house composer at Cannons.
* December 26 – Teatro Regio Ducale in Milan opens as an opera house.
* Johann Sebastian Bach is appointed Kapellmeister by Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen.
* Celebrated castrato Gaetano Berenstadt visits London and plays the lead in a revival of Handel's Rinaldo.

## Classical music

* Tomaso Albinoni – Violin Sonata in B-Flat Major, T. So 32
* William Babell – Suits of the most Celebrated Lessons
* Johann Sebastian Bach
** 6 Kleine Präludien, BWV 933-938
** 5 Kleine Präludien, BWV 939-943
** Violin Sonata in B minor, BWV 1014
** Violin Sonata in E major, BWV 1016
** Violin Sonata in C minor, BWV 1017
** Violin Sonata in F minor, BWV 1018
** Violin Sonata in G major, BWV 1019
* Pietro G.G. Boni – Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 1
* François Chauvon – Tibiades
* François Couperin – Pièces de clavecin, book 2
* Charles Dieupart – 6 Sonatas for a Flute and a Through Bass
* Johann Friedrich Fasch – Brockes-Passion, FaWV F:1
* Christoph Graupner – Wie wunderbar ist Gottes Güte, GWV 1103/17
* Georg Friedrich Handel
** Dolc' è pur d'amor l'affanno, HWV 109a
** Mi palpita il cor, HWV 132b
** O be Joyful in the Lord, HWV 246
** In the Lord I Put My Trust, HWV 247
** Have Mercy upon Me, O God, HWV 248
** O Sing unto the Lord a New Song, HWV 249b
** I Will Magnify Thee, HWV 250a
** O Praise the Lord with One Consent, HWV 254
** The Lord is My Light, HWV 255
** Oboe Concerto in B-flat major, HWV 302a
** Concerto Grosso in G major, HWV 314
** Water Music HWV 348-350
** Trio Sonata in C minor, HWV 386a
* Jacques Hotteterre – Suite in G major, Op. 6
* Jean-Baptiste Loeillet – 12 Sonatas, Op. 5
* Marin Marais – Pièces de viole, Livre 4
* Pierre-Danican Philidor – 12 Suites, Opp. 1-3
* Georg Philipp Telemann
** Gott der Hoffnung erfülle euch, TWV 1:634 (formerly BWV 218)
** Herr, sei mir gnädig, denn mir ist Angst, TWV 1:769
** Ich bin der Erste und der Letzte, TWV 1:816
** Sehet an die Exempel der Alten, TWV 1:1259
* Antonio Vandini – Cello Sonata in C major, IAV 5
* Antonio Vivaldi
** Violin Sonata in C minor, RV 5
** Concerto for Strings in C major, RV 114
** Concerto for Strings in D major, RV 121
** Concerto for Strings in D minor, RV 127
** Concerto for 2 Oboes in C major, RV 534
** Magnificat, RV 610
* John Weaver (choreographer; composers unknown) – The Loves of Mars and Venus (ballet)

## Opera

* Antonio Maria Bononcini – La conquista del vello d'oro
* Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello – Tisbe
* Antonio Caldara – La verità nell'inganno
* Leo Leonardo – Diana amante
* Alessandro Scarlatti – Telemaco
* Antonio Vivaldi
** L'Incoronazione di Dario
** Tieteberga, RV 737

## Births

* January 4 – Antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer (died 1785)
* April 9 – Georg Matthias Monn, composer (died 1750)
* June 18 – Johann Stamitz, violinist and composer (died 1757)
* June 27 – Giacomo Durazzo, operatic impresario (died 1794)
* date unknown
** Leopold August Abel, violinist and composer (died 1794)
** Elisabeth Lillström, Swedish operatic soprano (d. 1791)
** William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymn writer (died 1791)
* probable – Marimutthu Pillai, composer of Carnatic music (died c.1787)

## Deaths

* February 11 – Johann Jakob Walther, violinist and composer (born 1650)
* April 3 – Christian Friedrich Witt, composer, music editor and teacher (born c.1660)
* October 13 – Wolfgang Printz, composer and cantor (born 1641)
* November 26 – Daniel Purcell, composer (born 1664)
* date unknown
** Pierre Bouteiller, composer (born 1655)
** Goffredo Cappa, luthier (born 1644)
** Friedrich Erhard Niedt, jurist, music theorist, and composer (born 1674)
* probable – Francisco Guerau, composer (born 1649)