1717 in music

The year 1717 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• March 26 – Johann Sebastian Bach premieres his Weimarer Passion at the chapel of Friedrichstein Castle in Gotha
• 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.
• August – Handel becomes house composer at Cannons.
• December 26 – Teatro Regio Ducale in Milan opens as an opera house.
• Johann Sebastian Bach is appointed Kapellmeister by Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen.
• Celebrated castrato Gaetano Berenstadt visits London and plays the lead in a revival of Handel's Rinaldo.

Classical music

• Tomaso Albinoni – Violin Sonata in B-Flat Major, T. So 32
• William Babell – Suits of the most Celebrated Lessons
• Johann Sebastian Bach
  • 6 Kleine Präludien, BWV 933-938
  • 5 Kleine Präludien, BWV 939-943
  • Violin Sonata in B minor, BWV 1014
  • Violin Sonata in E major, BWV 1016
  • Violin Sonata in C minor, BWV 1017
  • Violin Sonata in F minor, BWV 1018
  • Violin Sonata in G major, BWV 1019
• Pietro G.G. Boni – Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 1
• François Chauvon – Tibiades
• François Couperin – Pièces de clavecin, book 2
• Charles Dieupart – 6 Sonatas for a Flute and a Through Bass
• Johann Friedrich Fasch – Brockes-Passion, FaWV F:1
• Christoph Graupner – Wie wunderbar ist Gottes Güte, GWV 1103/17
• Georg Friedrich Handel
  • Dolc' è pur d'amor l'affanno, HWV 109a
  • Mi palpita il cor, HWV 132b
  • O be Joyful in the Lord, HWV 246
  • In the Lord I Put My Trust, HWV 247
  • Have Mercy upon Me, O God, HWV 248
  • O Sing unto the Lord a New Song, HWV 249b
  • I Will Magnify Thee, HWV 250a
  • O Praise the Lord with One Consent, HWV 254
  • The Lord is My Light, HWV 255
  • Oboe Concerto in B-flat major, HWV 302a
  • Concerto Grosso in G major, HWV 314
  • Water Music HWV 348-350
  • Trio Sonata in C minor, HWV 386a
• Jacques Hotteterre – Suite in G major, Op. 6
• Jean-Baptiste Loeillet – 12 Sonatas, Op. 5
• Marin Marais – Pièces de viole, Livre 4
• Pierre-Danican Philidor – 12 Suites, Opp. 1-3
• Georg Philipp Telemann
  • Gott der Hoffnung erfülle euch, TWV 1:634 (formerly BWV 218)
  • Herr, sei mir gnädig, denn mir ist Angst, TWV 1:769
  • Ich bin der Erste und der Letzte, TWV 1:816
  • Sehet an die Exempel der Alten, TWV 1:1259
• Antonio Vandini – Cello Sonata in C major, IAV 5
• Antonio Vivaldi
  • Violin Sonata in C minor, RV 5
  • Concerto for Strings in C major, RV 114
  • Concerto for Strings in D major, RV 121
  • Concerto for Strings in D minor, RV 127
  • Concerto for 2 Oboes in C major, RV 534
  • Magnificat, RV 610
• John Weaver (choreographer; composers unknown) – The Loves of Mars and Venus (ballet)

Opera

• Antonio Maria Bononcini – La conquista del vello d'oro
• Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello – Tisbe
• Antonio Caldara – La verità nell'inganno
• Leo Leonardo – Diana amante
• Alessandro Scarlatti – Telemaco
• Antonio Vivaldi
  • L'Incoronazione di Dario
  • Tieteberga, RV 737

Births

• January 4 – Antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer (died 1785)^[1][2]
• April 9 – Georg Matthias Monn, composer (died 1750)
• June 18 – Johann Stamitz, violinist and composer (died 1757)
• June 27 – Giacomo Durazzo, operatic impresario (died 1794)
• date unknown
  • Leopold August Abel, violinist and composer (died 1794)
  • Elisabeth Lillström, Swedish operatic soprano (d. 1791)
  • William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymn writer (died 1791)
• probable – Marimutthu Pillai, composer of Carnatic music (died c.1787)

Deaths

• February 11 – Johann Jakob Walther, violinist and composer (born 1650)
• April 3 – Christian Friedrich Witt, composer, music editor and teacher (born c.1660)
• October 13 – Wolfgang Printz, composer and cantor (born 1641)
• November 26 – Daniel Purcell, composer (born 1664)
• date unknown
  • Pierre Bouteiller, composer (born 1655)
  • Goffredo Cappa, luthier (born 1644)
  • Friedrich Erhard Niedt, jurist, music theorist, and composer (born 1674)
• probable – Francisco Guerau, composer (born 1649)

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