1720 in music

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This article lists the most significant events and works of the year 1720 in music.

Events

• Royal Academy of Music (1719) opens in London.
• Giovanni Battista Bononcini arrives in London, his home until 1732, and becomes one of Handel's most notable rivals.
• Domenico Scarlatti arrives in Lisbon.

Classical music

• Johann Sebastian Bach – Prelude for Lute in C minor
• Jan Josef Ignác Brentner – Horae Pomeridianae
• Marin Marais – Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris
• Alessandro Scarlatti – Messa di Santa Cecilia

Opera

• Antonio Maria Bononcini – Nino
• George Frideric Handel – Radamisto
• Johann David Heinichen – Flavio Crispo
• Leonardo Leo – Caio Gracco
• Giovanni Porta – Numitore
• Antonio Vivaldi – La verità in cimento

Births

• January 4 – Johann Friedrich Agricola, composer (died 1774)
• August 20 – Bernard de Bury, court musician and composer (died 1785)
• October 17- Maria Teresa Agnesi, singer and composer (died 1795)
• November 16 – Carlo Antonio Campioni, composer (died 1788)
• probable
  • Bernhard Joachim Hagen, composer (died 1787)
  • Joan Baptista Pla, oboist and composer (died 1773)

Deaths

• July 27 – Johann Samuel Welter, composer
• July – Maria Barbara Bach, first wife of Johann Sebastian Bach (born 1684)
• date unknown – Jean Hotteterre, musician and composer
• probable
  • Antonia Bembo, singer and composer (born c. 1640)
  • Jean Baptiste Loeillet of Ghent, composer (born 1688)
  • Johann Speth, organist and composer (born 1664)