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The year 1714 in music involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Opera 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 References

[edit] Events

• 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.^[1]
• Francesco Geminiani arrives in London, where he obtains the patronage of William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex.
• Georg 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.

[edit] Classical music

• Johann Sebastian Bach
  • The Little Organ Book
  • Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (cantata)
• Arcangelo Corelli
  • Christmas Concerto
  • Twelve concerti grossi, op.6 , published posthumously
• George Frideric Handel - Utrecht Te Deum
• André Raison - Deuxième livre d'orgue
• Alessandro Scarlatti - S. Filippo Neri (oratorio)

[edit] Opera

• Leonardo Leo - Pisistrato
• Jean-Joseph Mouret - Les Fêtes ou Le Triomphe de Thalie

[edit] Births

• January 1 - Giovanni Battista Mancini, soprano castrato, voice teacher (died 1800)
• 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)
• March 24 - Carlo Giovanni Testori, composer (died 1782)
• May 6 - Anton Raaff, tenor (died 1797)
• July 2 - Christoph Willibald Gluck (died 1787)
• September 10 - Niccolò Jommelli, composer (died 1774)
• September 25 - Jean-Benoit Leclair, composer
• December 23
  • Ranieri de' Calzabigi, librettist collaborating with Gluck (died 1795)
  • Johann Siebenkas, composer (died 1781)
• date unknown
  • Susannah Maria Cibber, singer and actress (died 1766)
  • Johan Foltmar, composer (died 1794)
  • Christian Gottlob Hubert, builder of keyboard instruments (died 1793)
  • Edmund Pascha, organist and composer (died 1772)

[edit] Deaths

• April 17 - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer
• September 3 - Pietro Antonio Fiocco, composer (born 1654)
• November 13 - Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, organist (born 1632)

[edit] References

1. ^ Palisca, Claude V. (1991) [1968]. Baroque Music. Prentice Hall History of Music (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. p. 283. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.