# 1714 in music

The year 1714 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* March 2 – Johann Sebastian Bach is appointed Konzertmeister at Weimar, having declined a post at Halle.
* A school of dance opens at the Paris Opera.
* Michel Richard Delalande assumes full control of the French royal chapel upon the retirement of his last co-sous maîtres.
* Francesco Geminiani arrives in London, where he obtains the patronage of William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex.
* Melchior Hoffmann, composer, marries Margaretha Elisabeth Philipp; he is already suffering from a terminal illness.
* Domenico Scarlatti becomes maestro di cappella at the Cappella Giulia in the Vatican.
* Francesco Maria Veracini visits London and performs at the Queen's Theatre.
* The first permanent church organ in the United States, the Brattle organ, imported by Thomas Brattle, is installed in Boston at King's Chapel.
* John Tufts publishes the first instructional book for singing in the USA.
* Gottfried Silbermann completes the new organ for Freiberg Cathedral.

## Classical music

* Pirro Capacelli Conte Albergati – Cantate et oratorii spirituali, Op. 10
* William Babell – Prelude in G major from the Frontispiece
* Johann Sebastian Bach
** Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12 (movement 2 would later form the Crucifixus movement of his Mass in B minor)
** Widerstehe doch der Sünde, BWV 54
** Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV Anh. 55
** Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61
** Christen, ätzet diesen Tag, BWV 63
** Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn, BWV 152
** Erschallet, ihr Lieder, BWV 172
** Himmelskönig, sei willkommen, BWV 182
** Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199
** Kleines harmonisches Labyrinth, BWV 591 (Now attributed to Johann David Heinichen)
** Organ Concerto in E-flat major, BWV 597
** The Little Organ Book
*** Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland, BWV 599
*** Gott, durch deine Güte, BWV 600
*** Lob sei dem allmächtigen Gott, BWV 602
*** Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 604
*** Vom Himmel kam der Engel Schaar, BWV 607
*** Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten, BWV 642
*** Alle Menschen müssen sterben, BWV 643
** Toccata in C minor, BWV 911
** Toccata in G major, BWV 916
** Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, BWV 944
** Aria variata in A minor, BWV 989
** Violin Sonata in E minor, BWV 1023
* Antonio Caldara – Laboravi in gemitu meo
* André Campra – Enée et Didon
* Giovanni Maria Casini – Pensieri per Organo
* Arcangelo Corelli
** Christmas Concerto
** Twelve concerti grossi, Op. 6, published posthumously
* François Couperin – Leçons de ténèbres
* Henri Desmarets – Grands Motets
* Christoph Graupner – Mir hat die Welt trüglich gericht, GWV 1103/14
* George Frideric Handel – Te Deum in D major, HWV 278
* Johann Ernst Prinz von Sachsen-Weimar – Violin Concerto in G major
* Reinhard Keiser – Musicalische Land-Lust
* Jean-Baptiste Loeillet – 12 Recorder Sonatas, Op. 2
* Johann Mattheson – Harmonisches Denckmahl (12 Harpsichord suites)
* Santiago de Murcia – Resumen de acompañar la parte con la guitarra
* James Paisible – The Godolphin. Mr. Isaac's new dance, made for Her Majesty's Birth Day, 1714...
* André Raison – Deuxième livre d'orgue
* Jean-Féry Rebel – Les caractères de la danse
* Alessandro Scarlatti – S. Filippo Neri (oratorio)
* Jean-Baptiste Stuck – Héraclite et Démocrite
* Franz Mathias Techelmann – Toccate, Canzoni, Ricercari et altre Galanterie
* Georg Philipp Telemann – Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, TWV 1:1175
* Giuseppe Valentini – 12 Allettamenti da Camera, Op. 8

## Opera

* Leonardo Leo – Pisistrato
* Jean-Baptiste Matho – Arion (tragédie en musique)
* Jean-Joseph Mouret
** Les Amours de Ragonde
** Les Fêtes ou Le Triomphe de Thalie
* Nicola Porpora – Arianna e Teseo
* Alessandro Scarlatti – L’amor generoso
* Antonio Vivaldi – Orlando finto pazzo, RV 727

## Births

* January 1 – Giovanni Battista Mancini, soprano castrato, voice teacher (died 1800)
* February – Susannah Maria Cibber, singer and actress, daughter of Thomas Arne (died 1766)
* February 2 – Gottfried August Homilius, composer, cantor and organist (died 1785)
* February 28 – Gioacchino Conti, soprano castrato opera singer (died 1761)
* March 8 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (died 1788)
* April 16 – Pedro António Avondano, Portuguese composer
* May 6 – Anton Raaff, tenor (died 1797)
* May 12 – Johan Daniel Berlin composer (died 1787)
* July 2 – Christoph Willibald Gluck (died 1787)
* September 10 – Niccolò Jommelli, composer (died 1774)
* December 23 – Ranieri de' Calzabigi, librettist collaborating with Gluck (died 1795)
* date unknown
** Antonio Besozzi, Italian oboist and composer (died 1781)
** Abade António da Costa, Portuguese composer (died 1780)
** Johan Foltmar, composer (died 1794)
** Christian Gottlob Hubert, builder of keyboard instruments (died 1793)
** Edmund Pascha, organist and composer (died 1772)
* probable – Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi, luthier (died 1771)

## Deaths

* January 4 – Atto Melani, opera singer (born 1626)
* April 17 – Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer (born 1657)
* August 25 – Johann Georg Kühnhausen, composer (date of birth unknown)
* September 3 – Pietro Antonio Fiocco, composer (born 1654)
* November 13 – Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, organist (born 1632)
* date unknown – Benito Bello de Torices, Spanish composer, maestro at the Convent of Las Descalzas Reales (born c.1660)