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The year 1718 in music involved some significant events.

Antonio Vivaldi tours Italy.
Handel succeeds Johann Christoph Pepusch as Kapellmeister to the Duke of Chandos.
Johann Joachim Quantz settles in Dresden.
14-year-old Carlos Seixas succeeds his father as organist at Coimbra Cathedral.

William Babell – The Harpsichord Master Improved
George Frideric Handel – Esther (oratorio)
Francesco Manfredini – Concerti grossi, Op. 3: no 12 in C major "Christmas Concerto"

January 18 - Christoph Ludwig Fehre, organist and composer (died 1772)
September 25 - Nicola Conforto, composer (died 1793)
November 21 – Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, music critic and composer (died 1795)
date unknown
- Wenzel Raimund Birck, composer (died 1763)
- Mademoiselle Duval, anonymous composer (died c.1775)

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 == Births ==
 *[[January 18]] - [[Christoph Ludwig Fehre]], organist and composer (died 1772)
-*[[September 4]] – [[Carl Heinrich Biber]], composer and son of [[Heinrich Ignaz Biber]]
 *[[September 25]] - [[Nicola Conforto]], composer (died 1793)
 *[[November 21]] – [[Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg]], music critic and composer (died 1795)