# 1704 in music

The year 1704 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* Johann Christoph Pepusch arrives in London.
* Following her husband's death, Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre begins hosting concerts in her home.
* Antonio Vivaldi becomes general superintendent of music at the Ospedale della Pietà, Venice.
* Johann Jacob Bach becomes an oboist in the army of King Charles XII of Sweden, inspiring Johann Sebastian to write a Capriccio on the Absence of His Most Beloved Brother.
* During a performance of Johann Mattheson's opera, Cleopatra, the composer almost kills his friend, Georg Frideric Handel, in a violent quarrel.

## Classical music

* Henricus Albicastro – [12] Concerti, Op.7
* Attilo Ariosti – La madre dei Maccabei
* Johann Sebastian Bach
** Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150 (or 1707)
** Toccata and Fugue D Minor BWV 565 (poss.)
** Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BWV 742
** Sonata in D major, BWV 963
** Capriccio in B-flat major, BWV 992
* Antonio Caldara – Il trionfo dell'innocenza (Second edition)
* Louis-Nicolas Clérambault – Livre de pièces de clavecin
* François Couperin – 7 Versets du motet composé de l'ordre du roy, 1704
* William Croft – 6 Sonatas of Two Parts
* Michel Richard Delalande – Dominus regnavit, S.65
* George Frideric Handel – Oboe Concerto in G minor, HWV 287
* Reinhard Keiser – Der blutige und sterbende Jesus (by Christian Friedrich Hunold)
* Michele Mascitti – [12] Sonate, Op.1
* Jean-Baptiste Morin – Motets à une et deux voix, Livre I
* James Paisible – Musick perform'd before Her Majesty and the new King of Spain
* Alessandro Scarlatti
** Perdono, Amor, perdono, H.554
** S. Casimiro, re di Pononia
* Johann Schenck – 2 Sonatas for 2 Viols
* Giovanni Battista Tibaldi – 12 Trio Sonatas, Op.2

## Opera

* Attilo Ariosti – I gloriosi presagi di Scipione Africano
* Giovanni Bononcini
** Il fiore delle eroine
** Il ritorno di Giulio Cesare
* Francesco Bartolomeo Conti – Alba Cornelia
* Johann Mattheson – Die unglückselige Cleopatra
* Carlo Francesco Pollarolo – Irene (revised by Domenico Scarlatti for performance at Naples).

## Births

* May 7 – Carl Heinrich Graun, composer and singer (died 1759)
* June 11 – Carlos Seixas, composer (died 1742)
* October 2 – František Tůma, organist and composer (died 1774)
* December 31 – Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, organist (died 1761)
* probable – Claude Parisot, organ builder (died 1784)

## Deaths

* February 7 – Lady Mary Dering, composer (born 1629)
* February 23 – Georg Muffat, composer (born 1653)
* February 24 – Marc-Antoine Charpentier, composer (born 1643)
* February 25 – Isabella Leonarda, composer of church music (born 1620)
* April – Georg Christoph Strattner, friend and colleague of Bach at Lüneburg (born c. 1644)
* May 3 – Heinrich Ignaz Biber, violinist and composer (born 1644)
* September 6 – Francesco Provenzale, composer (born 1624)
* November 2 – Johann Jakob Walther, violinist and composer (born 1650)
* November 16 – Chikka Devaraja, ruler of Mysore, composer and music theorist (born 1673)
* December 14
** Selim I Giray, Crimean khan, also known as a poet and musician (born 1631)
** Joseph-François Duché de Vancy, librettist (born 1668)