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

Attilio Ariosti – Recueil de pièces
William Babell – The Harpsichord Master Improved
Johann Sebastian Bach
- Lobet der Herrn, alle seine Heerscharen, BWV Anh.5
- Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV Anh.77
- Der Himmel dacht auf Anhalts Ruhm und Glück, BWV 66a
- Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten, BWV 202
- Amore traditore, BWV 203
- Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her, BWV 738
- Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042
- Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor, BWV 1043
- Sinfonia in F major, BWV 1046a
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047 (likely composed)
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048
- Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major, BWV 1066
Antonio Caldara – Il martirio di San Terenziano
Pietro Castrucci – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1
Francesco Bartolomeo Conti – Amore in Tessaglia
Jean-François Dandrieu – Les caractères de la guerre
Johann Ernst Prinz von Sachsen-Weimar – 6 Violin Concertos, Op. 1
Christoph Graupner – 8 Partitas
George Frideric Handel
- Esther (oratorio) HWV 50a
- L'aure grate, il fresco rio, HWV 121a
- As Pants the Hart, HWV 251b
Francesco Manfredini – 12 Concertos, Op. 3 (inc. No. 12 in C major "Christmas Pastorale")
Pierre Danican Philidor
- 4 Suites, Op. 2
- 3 Suites, Op. 3
Georg Philipp Telemann
- 6 Suonatine per violino e cembalo
- 6 Trio Sonatas
Antonio Vivaldi – Qual in pioggia dorata, RV 686
Giovanni Zamboni – Sonate d'intavolatura di leuto, Op. 1
Jan Dismas Zelenka
- Capriccio in G major, ZWV 183
- Capriccio in F major, ZWV 184

Opera

Toussaint Bertin de la Doué – Le Jugement de Paris
Antonio Maria Bononcini – Griselda
Antonio Caldara – Ifigenia in Aulide
George Frideric Handel – Acis and Galatea HWV 49
Nicola Porpora – Berenice regina d'Egitto
Domenico Natale Sarro – Arsace
Alessandro Scarlatti
- Cambise, R.356.64
- Il trionfo dell'onore
- Telemaco
Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel – Diomedes (inc. aria "Bist du bei mir", later arranged by J.S. Bach as BWV 508)
Antonio Vivaldi
- Armida al campo d'Egitto, RV 699
- Scanderbeg, RV 732
- Tito Manlio, RV 738

Theoretical Writings

Jean-François Dandrieu – Principes de l'Acompagnement du Clavecin

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 (nom de plume) (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