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This article lists the most significant events and works of the year 1720 in music.

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

[edit] Events

• Royal Academy of Music opens in London.
• Giovanni Battista Bononcini arrives in London, his home until 1732, and becomes one of Handel's most notable rivals.
• Domenico Scarlatti arrives in Lisbon.

[edit] Classical music

• Johann Sebastian Bach - Prelude for Lute in C minor
• Jan Josef Ignac Brentner - Horae Pomeridianae
• Marin Marais - Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris
• Alessandro Scarlatti - Messa di Santa Cecilia

[edit] Opera

• Antonio Maria Bononcini - Nino
• George Frideric Handel - Radamisto
• Johann David Heinichen - Flavio Crispo
• Leonardo Leo - Caio Gracco
• Giovanni Porta - Numitore
• Antonio Vivaldi - La verità in cimento

[edit] Births

• January 4 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, composer (died 1774)
• November 16 - Carlo Antonio Campioni, composer (died 1788)
• October 17- Maria Teresa Agnesi, singer and composer (died 1795)
• probable - Bernhard Joachim Hagen, composer (died 1787)

[edit] Deaths

• July 27 - Johann Samuel Welter, composer
• July - Maria Barbara Bach, first wife of Johann Sebastian Bach (born 1684)
• probable
  • Antonia Bembo, singer and composer (born c. 1640)
  • Johann Speth, organist and composer (born 1664)