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This article lists the most significant events and works of the year 1719 in music.

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

[edit] Events

• George Frideric Handel becomes musical director of the Royal Academy of Music. Giovanni Bononcini is brought to London to compose for the Academy.
• Alessandro Scarlatti arrives in Rome.
• Domenico Scarlatti becomes kapellmeister to João V of Portugal.
• Johann Mattheson becomes kapellmeister to the Duke of Holstein.
• Giuseppe Pitoni becomes choirmaster of St Peter's in Rome.
• Francesco Veracini performs at the palace of Moritzburg for the wedding of the Crown Prince to Maria Josepha.
• Antonio Stradivarius makes the "Duke of Marlborough" cello.
• In Japan, the Kumiodori dance form is created by Chokun Tamagusuku.

[edit] Published popular music

• Thomas Fleet - Mother Goose's Melodies For Children

[edit] Classical music

• Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concerto no 4

[edit] Opera

• Alessandro Scarlatti - Marco Attilio Regolò
• Antonio Vivaldi - Il Teuzzone; Tito Manlio -

[edit] Births

• January 17 - Jean-Joseph Vade, composer
• April 17 - Christian Gottfried Krause, composer
• September 3 - Ferdinand Zellbell, composer
• October 26 - Joaquin de Oxinaga, composer
• November 10 - Georg Philipp Kress, composer
• November 14 Leopold Mozart, baroque composer (died 1787)
• December 24 - Johann Christoph Altnikol, composer

[edit] Deaths

• January 19 - Joachim Tielke, German instrument-maker (born 1641)
• February 25 - Giovanni Maria Casini, composer
• April 15 - Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer
• July - Johann Valentin Meder, organist, singer and composer (born 1649)
• July 26 - Johann Georg Christian Storl, composer
• July 28 (buried) - Arp Schnitger, organ builder (born 1648)
• date unknown
  • Michael Mietke, maker of harpsichords and harps (born c.1656/1671)
  • André Raison, organist and composer (born 1650)