# 1716 in music

The year 1716 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* July 1 – Domenico Zipoli joins the Society of Jesus. Soon afterwards he is sent on a mission to Paraguay.
* Georg Philipp Telemann visits Eisenach, resulting in an appointment as visiting Kapellmeister.
* Antonio Stradivari – completes Le Messie violin (The Messiah Stradivarius)
* Jonathan Swift conceives the idea for the Beggar's Opera.
* Giuseppe Tartini hears Francesco Maria Veracini play the violin, and is inspired.

## Classical music

* William Babell – The Fourth Book of the Ladys Entertainment
* Johann Sebastian Bach
** Wachet, betet, seid bereit allezeit!, BWV 70a
** Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147a
** Mein Gott, wie lang, ach lange, BWV 155
** Komm, du süsse Todesstunde, BWV 161
** Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV 186a
** In dir ist Freude, BWV 615
* Diogenio Bigaglia – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1
* Louis-Nicolas Clérambault – Cantates françoises, Book 3
* François Couperin
** Second livre de pièces de clavecin
** L'art de toucher le clavecin
* Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 4
* Domenico Elmi – Oboe Concerto in A minor
* Francesco Geminiani – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1
* Georgio Gentili – 12 Violin Concertos, Op. 6
* Christoph Graupner
** Verleih dass ich aus Herzensgrund, GWV 1114/16
** Muss ich denn noch ferner leiden, GWV 1145/16
** Gott ist für uns gestorben, GWV 1152/16
* George Frideric Handel
** Concerto Grosso in F major, HWV 315
** 6 Fugues, HWV 605–610
* Johann Kuhnau – Wenn ihr fröhlich seid an euren Festen
* Jean-Baptiste Loeillet – 12 Recorder Sonatas, Op. 4
* Michel Montéclair – Musette (Les festes de l'été)
* Giovanni Mossi – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1
* Alessandro Scarlatti – Ombre tacite e sole
* Georg Philipp Telemann
** Concerto for 3 Trumpets, 2 Oboes, Timpani and Strings in D major
** Brockes Passion, TWV 5:1
** Germania mit ihrem Chor, TWV 12:1c
** Kleine Kammermusik
* Francesco Maria Veracini
** Six Overtures (first performed, Venice)
** 12 Sonate a violino o flauto solo e basso (manuscript)
* Robert di Visée – Pièces de théorbe et de luth
* Antonio Vivaldi
** La stravaganza, Op. 4
** 6 Violin Sonatas, Op. 5
** 12 Concerti, Op.7
** Violin Concerto in C major, RV 195
** Violin Concerto in D major, RV 205
** Violin Concerto in D minor, RV 245
** Violin Concerto in F major, RV 292
** Violin Concerto in G minor, RV 319
** Violin Concerto in A major, RV 340
** Violin Concerto in A major, RV 343
** Gloria in D major, RV 589
** Juditha Triumphans, RV 644
** Recorder Sonata in G major, RV 806
* Jan Dismas Zelenka
** Deus dux fortissime, ZWV 60
** Da pacem Domine, ZWV 167
* Domenico Zipoli – Sonate d'intavolatura per organo e cimbalo, Op. 1

## Opera

* Antonio Maria Bononcini – Sesostri re d'Egitto
* Giuseppe Maria Buini – Armida abbandonata
* Francesco Ciampi – Timocrate
* Francesco Bartolomeo Conti – Il finto Policare
* Johann Christoph Pepusch – Apollo and Daphne
* Carlo Francesco Pollarolo – Ariodante
* Alessandro Scarlatti – Carlo re d'Allemagna
* Antonio Vivaldi
** Arsilda Regina di Ponto
** La costanza trionfante degl'amori e degl'odii, RV 706
** L'incoronazione di Dario, RV 719

## Publications

* Johann Heinrich Buttstett – Ut, mi, sol, re, fa, la, tota musica et harmonia aeterna
* François Campion – Traité d'accompagnement et de composition
* Estienne Roger – Concerti a Cinque con Violini, Oboè, Violetta, Violoncello e Basso Continuo del Signori G. Valentini, A. Vivaldi, T. Albinoni, F. M. Veracini, G. St. Martin, A. Marcello, G. Rampin, A. Predieri

## Births

* February 9 – Johann Trier, composer
* March 21 – Josef Seger, composer (died 1782)
* April 12 – Felice Giardini, violinist and composer (died 1796)
* c. 1716/17 – John Beard, tenor and actor-manager (died 1791)

## Deaths

* August 3 – Sebastián Durón, composer (b. 1660)
* September 25 – Johann Christoph Pez, composer (b. 1664)
* October 1 – Giovanni Battista Bassani, composer, violinist and organist (born c. 1650)
* November – Johann Aegidus Bach, organist and uncle of Johann Sebastian (born 1645)
* December 1 – Johann Samuel Drese, composer (b. c. 1644)
* December 6 – Benedictus Buns, Dutch religious composer (b. 1642)
* date unknown – Carlo Giuseppe Testore, double bass maker (born c. 1665)