1702 in music

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The year 1702 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Johann Sebastian Bach leaves Lüneburg.
• Georg Philipp Telemann becomes director of Leipzig opera, and founds Leipzig Collegium Musicum.
• 17-year-old George Frideric Handel succeeds his teacher Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow as organist at Halle.
• Alessandro Scarlatti leaves Naples and seeks the patronage of Prince Ferdinando de' Medici.

Published popular music

• Tavern Bilkers, burlesque by John Weaver

Classical music

• Giovanni Henrico Albicastro – Sonate a violino solo col basso continuo
• Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns – St John Passion (formerly attributed to Reinhard Keiser)
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Judicium Salomonis, performed for the opening of the French parliament
• Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer – Ariadne musica
• Francesco Scarlatti – Dixit dominus (Psalm 110)
• Francisco Valls – Missa Scala Aretina

Opera

• François Bouvard – Médus
• André Campra – Tancrède
• Pietro Torri – Torneo

Births

• January 6 – José de Nebra, composer (died 1768)
• February 7 – Carl August Thielo, composer (died 1763)
• February 27 – Johann Valentin Görner, composer (died 1762)
• March 5 – Michael Mietke II, German harpsichord maker (died 1754)
• March 13 – Burkat Shudi, Swiss-born harpsichord maker (died 1773)
• March 27 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer (died 1762)
• July 22 – Alessandro Besozzi, oboist and composer (died 1793)
• date unknown – Antoine Gilis, composer (died 1781)

Deaths

• July 6 – Nicolas Lebègue, French harpsichordist, composer and organist (born 1632)
• July 16 – Étienne Loulié, musician, pedagogue and musical theorist (born 1654)
• September 17 – Olaus Rudbeck, composer (born 1630)
• December – José de Cascante, organist and composer (born 1646)