| Year |
Event |
| 1701 |
Giuseppe Aldrovandini, Italian composer, dies |
| 1701 |
Music publisher Henry Palyford establishes a series of weekly concerts at Oxford |
| 1702 |
N.A. de Le Begue, French organist and composer, dies |
| 1703 |
Nicolas de Grigny, French composer,dies |
| 1704 |
J.S. Bach writes his first cantata "Denn Du wirst meine Seele" |
| 1704 |
Jeremiah Clarke becomes organist at Chapel Royal |
| 1704 |
Handel: "St. John Passion" |
| 1704 |
H.I.F. von Biber, German composer and violinist, dies |
| 1705 |
Young J.S. Bach walks 200 miles to Lubeck to hear the Abendmusiken, directed by Buxtehude |
| 1705 |
Farinelli (Carlo Broschi), great Italian castrato singer, born |
| 1705 |
Handel: "Almira," opera staged in Hamburg |
| 1706 |
Johann Pachelbel, German organist and composer, dies |
| 1707 |
Dietrich Buxtehude, Danish-German composer, dies |
| 1707 |
Handel visits venice, meets Domenico Scarlatti |
| 1707 |
Great German organ builder Gottfried Silbermann builds his first organ at Frauenstein, Saxony |
| 1708 |
Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer, dies |
| 1708 |
John Blow, English composer, dies |
| 1708 |
Handel visits Rome and Naples |
| 1709 |
"Malbrouk' s'en va-t-en guerre" ("For he's a jolly good fellow") becomes increasingly popular after battle of Malplaquet - but it's doubtful whether "Malbrouk" refers to the Duke of Marlborough |
| 1709 |
Invention of the pianoforte; the great Italian harpsichord maker Bartolomeo Cristofori makes 4 "gravicembali col piano e forte" |
| 1709 |
Franz Xaver Richter, German composer, born |
| 1710 |
Thomas Augustine Arne, English composer, born |
| 1710 |
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, eldest son of Johann Sebastian, born |
| 1710 |
William Boyce, English composer, born |
| 1710 |
Handel becomes Kapellmeister to the elector prince, George of Hanover; on a visit to London he completes in 14 days score of "Rinaldo," given at Queen's theatre |
| 1710 |
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer, born |
| 1711 |
Clarinet for the first time in an orchestra (in J.A. Hasse's opera "Croesus") |
| 1711 |
Handel: "Rinaldo", opera |
| 1711 |
English trumpter John Shore said to have invented the tuning fork |
| 1712 |
Arcangelo Corelli: "12 Concerti grossi" |
| 1712 |
Handel: "Il Pastor fido," opera (London) |
| 1713 |
Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer, dies |
| 1714 |
Handel: "Utrecht Te Deum" |
| 1714 |
School of Dance established at Paris Opera |
| 1714 |
Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Bach's second son, born |
| 1714 |
Christoph Willibold Gluck, German composer, born |
| 1715 |
Vaudevilles, popular musical comedies, appear in Paris |
| 1716 |
Couperin: "L'Art de Toucher le Clavecin" |
| 1717 |
J.S. Bach: "Orggelbucklein," 46 chorales for organ |
| 1717 |
Handel's "Water Music" first preformed on the Thames |
| 1717 |
Johann Stamitz, Bohemian composer, violinist and conductor, born |
| 1717 |
"The Loves of Mars and Venus," ballet, given at Drury lane, London, by John Weaver |
| 1718 |
Handel succeeds John Chritopher Pepusch as Kapellmeister to the Duke of Chandos |
| 1718 |
Johann Gottfried Muthel, German composer and organist, born |
| 1719 |
Dimitrie Cantemir, Rumanian musician, writes first book on Turkish music, "Tratat de musica Turceasea" |
| 1719 |
Handel becomes director of Royal Academy of Music, London |
| 1719 |
Leopold Mozart born |
| 1720 |
Handel: Harpsichord suite no 5 ( with the "Harmonius Blacksmith") |
| 1721 |
J.S. Bach: "The Brandenburg Concertos" |
| 1721 |
Barberina Campanini, Italian dancer, born |
| 1721 |
Handel: "Acis and Galatea" serenata |
| 1721 |
Georg Philipp Telemann arrives in Hamburg as the director of music |
| 1722 |
J.S. Bach: "Das wohltemperierte Kalvier," vol 1 |
| 1722 |
Johann Mattheson: "Critica Musica," on musical criticism |
| 1722 |
Rameau: "Traite de L' harmonie" |
| 1723 |
J.S. Bach: "St. John Passion" |
| 1723 |
Bach appointed Thomascanter in Leipzig after Teleman refuses post |
| 1723 |
Handel: "Ottone," opera, London |
| 1724 |
Johann Theile, German singer and composer, dies |
| 1724 |
Couperin: "Le Parnasse, ou L'Apotheose de Corelli" |
| 1724 |
Handel:"Giulio Cesare," Opera, London |
| 1724 |
Three Choirs Festival founded for Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester |
| 1725 |
Bach: "Notenbuch" for Anna Magdalena Bach |
| 1725 |
J.J. Fux "Gradus ad Parnassum," Treatise on counterpoint |
| 1725 |
Handel: "Rodelinde," opera, London |
| 1725 |
First public concert given in Paris by A.D. Philidor |
| 1725 |
Prague opera house founded (Standetheater) |
| 1725 |
Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer, dies |
Music History Timeline - 1701 to 1725
