1711 in music

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The year 1711 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Invention of the tuning fork by John Shore.
• The King's Theatre premieres the first of at least 25 operas by George Frideric Handel that will appear by the year 1739.
• April 3 Possible premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Mark Passion pastiche at the chapel of Wilhelmsburg Castle (two movements by Bach).

Classical music

• Francesco Manfredini – Concerto for 2 Trumpets in D Major
• Marin Marais – Pièces de Viole
• Antonio Vivaldi – L'Estro armonico (Op. 3), published in Amsterdam

Opera

• Reinhard Keiser – Croesus
• Johann Friedrich Fasch – Clomire
• George Frideric Handel – Rinaldo
• Nicola Porpora – Flavio Anicio Olibrio

Births

• January 12 – Gaetano Latilla, opera composer (died 1788)
• January 29 – Giuseppe Bonno, composer (died 1788)
• April 22 – Paul II Anton Esterházy, patron of music (died 1762)
• June 23 – Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, luthier (died 1786)
• July 25 – Lorenz Christoph Mizler, writer on music (died 1778)
• September 11 – William Boyce, composer (died 1779)
• September 18 – Ignaz Holzbauer, composer (died 1783)
• December 25 – Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, violinist and composer (died 1772)
• date unknown
  • James Oswald, composer and music publisher (died 1769)
  • Davide Perez, opera composer (died 1778)
  • John Francis Wade, hymnist (died 1786)
• probable – Panna Cinka, violinist (died 1772)

Deaths

• March 19 – Thomas Ken, hymn-writer (born 1637)
• September 3 – Élisabeth Sophie Chéron, artist and musician (born 1648)
• September 27 – Christian Geist, organist and composer (born c. 1650)
• November 3 – Ferdinand Tobias Richter, organist and composer (born 1651)
• December 25 – Johann Nikolaus Hanff, organist and composer (born 1663)
• date unknown
  • Louis de Deyster, artist and maker of musical instruments (born 1656)
  • Buhurizade Itri, composer and performer of Turkish classical music (born c.1640)
  • Giovanni Battista Ruggieri, violin-maker (b. 1653)