See also:1708 in music, other events of 1709, 1710 in music, list of years in music. See also: 1707 in music, other events of 1708, 1709 in music, list of years in music. ... Events January 12 - Two-month freezing period begins in France - The coast of the Atlantic and Seine River freeze, crops fail and at least 24. ... This page indexes the individual year in music pages. ...
See Ansbach, Austria for the Austrian town of the same name. ... Map of Germany showing Leipzig Leipzig [ˈlaiptsɪç] (Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk) is the largest city in the federal state (Bundesland) of Saxony in Germany. ... Johann Sebastian Bach, 1748 portrait by Elias Gottlob Haussmann Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685[1] (O.S.) – July 28, 1750[2] (N.S.)) was a German composer and organist of the Baroque period, and is universally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. ...
Classical music
Giuseppe Torelli - Concerti Grossi, Op. 8: no 6 in G minor "Christmas Concerto"
Antonio Vivaldi - Sonata for Violin and Basso Continuo in C Major
Giuseppe Torelli (Verona April 22, 1658 - Bologna February 8, 1709) was an Italian composer and violinist, most remembered for his concerti grossi (Op. ... Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Vivaldi (March 4, 1678, Venice – July 28, 1741, Vienna), nicknamed Il Prete Rosso, meaning The Red Priest, was an Italian priest and baroque music composer. ...
A bound collection of vocal music, chiefly Italian arias dating from the mid-18th century, probably collected in England by someone who signed the table of contents Fra.
Also music fragments, one of the 2nd violin part of Bach's cantata No. 168, and one of the Chorale, from Bach's set of performing parts, ms of the Chorale in the hand of copyist Christian Gottlieb Meissner, one of Bach's principal Leipzig copyists, 1 leaf, undated.
Musical autograph copy of his Valse de concert for piano, 1892-1893, copied in 1934.
Son of barber-surgeon who opposed music as his son's career though he permitted lessons from Zachow, composer and organist of Liebfrauenkirche, Halle.
In 1719 Händel, in association with Giovanni Bononcini and Ariosti, was a music director of the so-called Royal Academy of Music (not a college but a business venture to produce Italian opera).
Church Music: Gloria Patri (1707) Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate (1712-13); Dettingen Te Deum (1743); II Chandos Anthems (1717-18); four Coronation Anthems (1727: The King Shall Rejoice ; Let thy hand be strengthened : My heart is inditing : Zadok the Priest); The Ways of Zion do Mourn, funeral anthem for Queen Caroline (1737).