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1700 musicThe year 1700 in music involved some significant events.
Events
John Eccles is appointed Master of the King's Musick.
William Croft returns to the Chapel Royal, where he had been educated, as a "gentleman organist".
William Corbett becomes director of the New Theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Johann Sebastian Bach becomes a chorister at St. Michael's Church, Lüneburg.
Tomaso Albinoni is employed as a violinist by Ferdinando Carlo, Duke of Mantua.
An inventory of musical instruments kept by Prince Ferdinando de Medici provides the first evidence for the existence of the pianoforte.
Classical music
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni – Sinfonie e concerti op. 2
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 549a
Christ, der du bist der helle Tag, BWV 766
John Blow – Amphion Anglicus
Jacques Boyvin – Livre d'orgue II
Sébastien de Brossard – O miraculum!, SdB.006
Antonio Caldara
La frode della castità
Il trionfo dell'innocenza
Choice Collection of Ayres for the Harpsichord or Spinnet by John Blow, Jeremiah Clarke, Francis Piggott, John Barrett and William Croft
Jeremiah Clarke – Prince of Denmark's March (approximate date)
Arcangelo Corelli – XII Suonati a violino e violone o cimbalo (Op. 5), published in Rome
John Eccles – The Mad Lover
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer – Musicalischer Parnassus
Godfrey Keller
The Royal Trumpett-Suite
8 Trio Sonatas
Johann Kuhnau – Musicalische Vorstellung einiger biblischer Historien (Biblical sonatas), published in Leipzig
Johann Sigismund Kusser
6 Overture Suites 'Apollon Enjoué'''
6 Overture Suites 'Festin des Muses' Isabella Leonarda – Motetti a voce sola con istromenti, Op.20
Alessandro Scarlatti – Il rosignolo se scioglie il volo, H.318
Opera
Carlo Agostino Badia – La costanza d'UlisseAndré Campra – HésioneJohn Eccles – The Judgment of ParisAlessandro Scarlatti – EraclesPublications
Jacques Boyvin – Traité abrégé de l'accompagnementJohann Kuhnau – Der musicalische Quack-SalberFriedrich Erhardt Niedt – Musicalische Handleitung Births
January 14Wright Alexandra What Have the Bach Passions Ever Done for Jewish–Christian Relations? European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe 2020 53 1 105–119 https://www.jstor.org/stable/48730202 1 March 2026 0014-3006 – Picander, librettist for Johann Sebastian Bach (died 1764)
March 13Champlin John Denison Apthorp William Foster Abaco-Dyne 1899 C. Scribner's Sons 194 https://www.google.com.ph/books/edition/Abaco_Dyne/uJZGAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=March+13+1700+Michel+Blavet+-wikipedia&pg=PA194&printsec=frontcover 1 March 2026 en – Michel Blavet, flautist (died 1768)
April 2 – Francesca Cuzzoni, opera singer (died 1770)probable''
Sebastian Bodinus, composer (d. 1759)
Jean-Baptiste Masse, cellist and composer (died c.1757)
Deaths
January 16 – Antonio Draghi, opera composer (born c.1634)
February 8 – Filippo Acciaiuoli, opera composer, librettist and manager (born 1637)
June 6 – Wespazjan Kochowski, historian, poet and writer (born 1633)
August Kühnel, viola da gamba player and composer (b. 1645)
Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, violist and composer (born c.1640)
References
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