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The year 1723 in music involved some significant events.

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

[edit] Events

• April - Johann Sebastian Bach is appointed Cantor and Musical Director of the Thomaskirche, Leipzig, beating off opposition from several prominent musicians, including Georg Friedrich Kauffmann.
• Handel moves to 25 Brook Street, London, now the Handel House Museum.
• Alessandro Scarlatti begins his last major work, a serenata for the marriage of the prince of Stigliano, which will be left unfinished at his death.
• Publication of Opinioni de' cantori antichi e moderni by Pier Francesco Tosi.
• Francesco Maria Veracini returns to Florence after a period in Germany.
• Antonio Vandini and Giuseppe Tartini go into the service of Count Kinsky in Prague.

[edit] Classical music

• Johann Sebastian Bach - Two-Part Invention no 6 in E major for violin and cello
• Antonio Maria Bononcini - Stabat Mater
• Louis-Antoine Dornel - Concerts de simphonies
• Marin Marais - Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris
• Georg Philipp Telemann
  • Hamburger Admiralitätsmusik (Hamburg Admiralty Music)
  • Overture-Suite in C major, TV 55 no C 3 "Wassermusik"
• Jan Dismas Zelenka - Concerto a 8 in G major
• Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons

[edit] Opera

• Giovanni Bononcini - Erminia
• Francesco Feo - Morano e Rosina
• George Frideric Handel - Ottone
• Leonardo Leo - La’mpeca scoperta

[edit] Births

• April 25 - Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer (died 1797)
• December 22 - Carl Friedrich Abel, composer (died 1787)
• date unknown:
  • Pascal Taskin, harpsichord and piano maker (died 1793)
  • Francesco Uttini, conductor and composer (died 1795)

[edit] Deaths

• February 7 - Carlo Francesco Pollarolo, composer (born c. 1653)
• August 21 - Dimitrie Cantemir, prince and polymath (born 1673)
• September 23 - William Babell, organist and composer (born 1690)