1717 in music

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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.
• 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

• François Couperin – Pièces de clavecin, book 2
• Georg Friedrich Handel – Water Music
• John Weaver – The Loves of Mars and Venus (ballet)

Opera

• Antonio Maria Bononcini – La conquista del vello d'oro
• Antonio Vivaldi – Penelope la Casta and L'Incoronazione di Dario

Births

• April 9 – Georg Matthias Monn, composer (died 1750)
• June 19 (probable) – 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)
  • William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymn writer (died 1791)
• probable – Marimutthu Pillai, composer of Carnatic music (died c.1787)

Deaths

• February 11 – Johann Jacob Walther, composer
• April 3 – Christian Friedrich Witt, composer, music editor and teacher (b. c. 1660)
• November 26 – Daniel Purcell, composer (born 1664)
• date unknown – Goffredo Cappa, luthier (born 1644)
• probable – Francisco Guerau, composer (born 1649)