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The year 1717 in music involved some significant events.

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

[edit] Events

• July 13 - Domenico Zipoli arrives in Buenos Aires with 52 other Jesuit missionaries.
• July 17 - George Frideric Handel's "Water Music" is performed on the River Thames.
• Johann Sebastian Bach is appointed Kapellmeister by Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen.

[edit] Classical music

• François Couperin - Pièces de clavecin, book 2
• Georg Friedrich Handel - Water Music
• John Weaver - The Loves of Mars and Venus (ballet)

[edit] Opera

• Antonio Maria Bononcini - La conquista del vello d'oro
• Antonio Vivaldi - Penelope la Casta and L'Incoronazione di Dario

[edit] Births

• April 9 - Georg Matthias Monn, composer (died 1750)
• June 19 (probable) - Johann Stamitz, violinist and composer (died 1757)
• June 27 - Giacomo Durazzo, operatic impresario (died 1794)
• exact date unknown - William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymn writer (died 1791)

[edit] Deaths

• February 11 - Johann Jacob Walther, composer
• April 3 - Christian Friedrich Witt, composer, music editor and teacher (b. c. 1660)
• November 26 - Daniel Purcell, composer (born 1664)
• date unknown - Goffredo Cappa, luthier (born 1644)