1712 in music

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The year 1712 in music involved some significant events.

Events

March 18 – Georg Philipp Telemann arrives in Frankfurt to take up his new post as city director of music and Kapellmeister at the Barfüsserkirche.
March 25 – Approximate date of the première of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Mark Passion pastiche at the chapel of Wilhelmsburg Castle (two movements by Bach).
September – George Frideric Handel re-locates to London, with the permission of his patron, the future King George I of Great Britain.^[1]
Johann Georg Pisendel joins the court orchestra at Dresden.

Barthold Heinrich Brockes – Der für die Sünde der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesus
Henry Carey – Setting of "The Lord My Pasture Shall Prepare" (hymn) by Joseph Addison
Benedetto Marcello – Sonatas for Recorder and Basso Continuo
Francesco Maria Veracini – Il trionfo della innocenza patrocinata da S. NiccoI (oratorio)

January
- David Owen, harpist (died 1741)
- Cecilia Young, soprano, wife of Thomas Arne (died 1789)
January 17 – John Stanley, composer and organist (died 1786)
January 24 – Frederick II of Prussia, enthusiastic amateur musician and composer (died 1786)
January 26 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer and head of a musical dynasty (died 1781)
June 28 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, polymath (died 1778)
July – John Hebden, musician and composer (died 1765)
date unknown
- Marimutthu Pillai, Carnatic music composer (died 1787)
- John Christopher Smith, composer (died 1795)
- Sophia Schröder, vocalist at the Kungliga Hovkapellet (died 1750)
probable – Kane O'Hara, playwright and musician (died 1782)

April – Lambert Chaumont, organist and composer (born c.1630)
April 29 – Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer
August 7 – Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau, organist at Halle (born 1663)
August 26 – Sebastian Anton Scherer, composer (born 1631)
September 30 – Johann Michael Zächer, composer (born 1649)
November 6 – Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer (born 1654)
date unknown
- Buhurizade Mustafa Itri, composer and performer of Turkish classical music (born c.1640)
- Juan de Araujo, Spanish composer active in South and Central America (born 1646)
- Carlo Alessandro Guidi, poet and songwriter (born 1650)
probable – Carlo Ambrogio Lonati, violinist, composer and singer