1718 in music

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The year 1718 in music involved some significant events.

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.

Classical music

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

Opera

• Toussaint Bertin de la Doué – Le Jugement de Paris
• Antonio Maria Bononcini – Astianatte and Griselda
• George Frideric Handel – Acis and Galatea
• Nicola Porpora – Berenice regina d'Egitto
• Alessandro Scarlatti
  • Il trionfo dell'onore
  • Telemaco
• Antonio Vivaldi – Scanderbeg

Births

• 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)

Deaths

• February 27 – Václav Karel Holan Rovenský, composer (born 1644)
• March – Richard Brind, organist and composer
• March 13 – Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns, composer (born 1637)
• November 26 – Bernardo Sabadini, opera composer