# 1712 in music

The year 1712 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* March 18 – Georg Philipp Telemann arrives in Frankfurt to take up his new post as city director of music and Kapellmeister at the Barfüsserkirche.
* March 25 – Approximate date of the première of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Mark Passion pastiche at the chapel of Wilhelmsburg Castle (two movements by Bach).
* September – George Frideric Handel re-locates to London, with the permission of his patron, the future King George I of Great Britain.
* Johann Georg Pisendel joins the court orchestra at Dresden.

## Classical music

* Tomaso Albinoni – 12 Trattenimenti armonici, Op. 6
* Johann Sebastian Bach
** Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 541
** Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major, BWV 564
** Fantasia in G major, BWV 572
** Toccata in F-sharp minor, BWV 910
** Fugue in B minor, BWV 951
** Fughetta in C minor, BWV 961
** Suite in E minor for lute, BWV 996
* Francesco Antonio Bonporti – 10 Inventions, Op. 10
* Pieter Bustijn – 9 Suittes pour le clavessin
* Henry Carey – Setting of "The Lord My Pasture Shall Prepare" (hymn) by Joseph Addison
* Arcangelo Corelli – Twelve Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 (composed)
* Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco
** Concerti a quattro da chiesa, Op. 2
** 12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 3
* Christoph Graupner
** Jesus ist und bleibt mein Leben, GWV 1107/12
** Mein Gott, warum hast du mich verlassen?, GWV 1118/12a
** Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, GWV 1143/12
** Demütiget euch nun, GWV 1144/12
** Zähle meine Flucht, GWV 1154/12b
** Wer da glaubet dass Jesus sei der Christ, GWV 1171/12
* George Frideric Handel – O Sing unto the Lord a New Song, HWV 249a
* Jacques-Martin Hotteterre
** Sonates en trio pour les flûtes traversières et a bec, violon, hautbois, Op. 3
** Suite in B minor, Op. 4
* Reinhard Keiser – Brockes-Passion (Text by Barthold Heinrich Brockes)
* Ferdinando Antonio Lazzari – Concerto in D major
* John Loeillet – Lessons for the Harpsichord or Spinet
* Benedetto Marcello – 12 Recorder Sonatas, Op. 2
* Jean-Baptiste Morin – Cantates françoises à une et trois voix, Op. 6
* James Paisible – The Gloucester. Mr. Isaac's new dance, made for Her Majesty's Birth Day...
* Anne Danican Philidor – Premier livre de pièces
* Giovanni Antonion Piani – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1
* Charles Piroye – Pièces d'orgue
* Jean-Féry Rebel – Boutade
* Georg Philipp Telemann
** Das ist meine Freude, TWV 8:17
** Ouverture-Suite, TWV 55:A5 (approx.)
* Francesco Maria Veracini – Il trionfo della innocenza patrocinata da S. NiccoI (oratorio)
* Antonio Vivaldi – Violin Concerto in D major, RV 212
* Johann Gottfried Walther – Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht
* Jan Dismas Zelenka – Attendite et videte, ZWV 59

## Opera

* André Campra – Idomenée
* André Cardinal Destouches – Callirhoé
* George Frideric Handel
** Il Pastor Fido
** Teseo, HWV 9 (composed)
* John Hughes (1677–1720) and Johann Ernst Galliard (d. 1747) – Calypso and Telemachus (opera)
* Antonio Lotti – Porsenna

## Births

* January
** David Owen, harpist (died 1741)
** Cecilia Young, soprano, wife of Thomas Arne (died 1789)
* January 17 – John Stanley, composer and organist (died 1786)
* January 24 – Frederick II of Prussia, enthusiastic amateur musician and composer (died 1786)
* January 26 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer and head of a musical dynasty (died 1781)
* June 28 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, polymath (died 1778)
* July – John Hebden, musician and composer (died 1765)
* date unknown
** Marimutthu Pillai, Carnatic music composer (died 1787)
** John Christopher Smith, composer (died 1795)
** Sophia Schröder, vocalist at the Kungliga Hovkapellet (died 1750)
* probable – Kane O'Hara, playwright and musician (died 1782)

## Deaths

* April – Lambert Chaumont, organist and composer (born c.1630)
* April 29 – Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer
* August 7 – Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau, organist at Halle (born 1663)
* August 26 – Sebastian Anton Scherer, composer (born 1631)
* September 30 – Johann Michael Zächer, composer (born 1649)
* November 6 – Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer (born 1654)
* date unknown
** Buhurizade Mustafa Itri, composer and performer of Turkish classical music (born c.1640)
** Juan de Araujo, Spanish composer active in South and Central America (born 1646)
** Carlo Alessandro Guidi, poet and songwriter (born 1650)
* probable – Carlo Ambrogio Lonati, violinist, composer and singer