1700 in music

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The 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 Fernando 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

• John Blow – Ode for New Year's Day
• Choice Collection of Ayres for the Harpsichord or Spinnet by John Blow, Jeremiah Clarke, Francis Piggott, John Barrett and William Croft
• Arcangelo Corelli – XII Suonati a violino e violone o cimbalo (Op. 5), published in Rome
• Godfrey Keller – The Royal Trumpett-Suite
• Antonio Caldara Maddalena ai piedi di Christo
• Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni sinfonie e concerti op. 2

Opera

• Carlo Agostino Badia – La costanza d'Ulisse
• Henry Purcell – Dido and Aeneas
• Alessandro Scarlatti – Eracles

Publications

• Jacques Boyvin – Traité abrégé de l'accompagnement

Births

• January 14 – Picander, librettist for Johann Sebastian Bach (died 1764)
• March 13 – Michel Blavet, flautist (died 1768)
• unknown date – 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 musician (born 1633)
• probable
  • August Kühnel, viola da gamba player and composer (b. 1645)
  • Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, violist and composer (born c.1640)