1714 in music

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The year 1714 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• March 2 – Johann Sebastian Bach is appointed Konzertmeister at Weimar, having declined a post at Halle.
• A school of dance opens at the Paris Opera.
• Michel Richard Delalande assumes full control of the French royal chapel upon the retirement of his last co-sous maîtres.
• Francesco Geminiani arrives in London, where he obtains the patronage of William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex.
• Melchior Hoffmann, composer, marries Margaretha Elisabeth Philipp; he is already suffering from a terminal illness.
• Domenico Scarlatti becomes maestro di cappella at the Cappella Giulia in the Vatican.
• Francesco Maria Veracini visits London and performs at the Queen's Theatre.
• The first permanent church organ in the United States, the Brattle organ, imported by Thomas Brattle, is installed in Boston at King's Chapel.
• John Tufts publishes the first instructional book for singing in the USA.
• Gottfried Silbermann completes the new organ for Freiberg Cathedral.

Classical music

• Pirro Capacelli Conte Albergati – Cantate et oratorii spirituali, Op. 10
• William Babell – Prelude in G major from the Frontispiece
• Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12 (movement 2 would later form the Crucifixus movement of his Mass in B minor)
  • Widerstehe doch der Sünde, BWV 54
  • Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV Anh. 55
  • Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61
  • Christen, ätzet diesen Tag, BWV 63
  • Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn, BWV 152
  • Erschallet, ihr Lieder, BWV 172
  • Himmelskönig, sei willkommen, BWV 182
  • Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199
  • Kleines harmonisches Labyrinth, BWV 591 (Now attributed to Johann David Heinichen)
  • Organ Concerto in E-flat major, BWV 597
  • The Little Organ Book
    • Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland, BWV 599
    • Gott, durch deine Güte, BWV 600
    • Lob sei dem allmächtigen Gott, BWV 602
    • Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 604
    • Vom Himmel kam der Engel Schaar, BWV 607
    • Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten, BWV 642
    • Alle Menschen müssen sterben, BWV 643
  • Toccata in C minor, BWV 911
  • Toccata in G major, BWV 916
  • Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, BWV 944
  • Aria variata in A minor, BWV 989
  • Violin Sonata in E minor, BWV 1023
• Antonio Caldara – Laboravi in gemitu meo
• André Campra – Enée et Didon
• Giovanni Maria Casini – Pensieri per Organo
• Arcangelo Corelli
  • Christmas Concerto
  • Twelve concerti grossi, Op. 6, published posthumously
• François Couperin – Leçons de ténèbres
• Henri Desmarets – Grands Motets
• Christoph Graupner – Mir hat die Welt trüglich gericht, GWV 1103/14
• George Frideric Handel – Te Deum in D major, HWV 278
• Johann Ernst Prinz von Sachsen-Weimar – Violin Concerto in G major
• Reinhard Keiser – Musicalische Land-Lust
• Jean-Baptiste Loeillet – 12 Recorder Sonatas, Op. 2
• Johann Mattheson – Harmonisches Denckmahl (12 Harpsichord suites)
• Santiago de Murcia – Resumen de acompañar la parte con la guitarra
• James Paisible – The Godolphin. Mr. Isaac's new dance, made for Her Majesty's Birth Day, 1714...
• André Raison – Deuxième livre d'orgue
• Jean-Féry Rebel – Les caractères de la danse
• Alessandro Scarlatti – S. Filippo Neri (oratorio)
• Jean-Baptiste Stuck – Héraclite et Démocrite
• Franz Mathias Techelmann – Toccate, Canzoni, Ricercari et altre Galanterie
• Georg Philipp Telemann – Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, TWV 1:1175
• Giuseppe Valentini – 12 Allettamenti da Camera, Op. 8

Opera

• Leonardo Leo – Pisistrato
• Jean-Baptiste Matho – Arion (tragédie en musique)
• Jean-Joseph Mouret
  • Les Amours de Ragonde
  • Les Fêtes ou Le Triomphe de Thalie
• Nicola Porpora – Arianna e Teseo
• Alessandro Scarlatti – L’amor generoso
• Antonio Vivaldi – Orlando finto pazzo, RV 727

Births

• January 1 – Giovanni Battista Mancini, soprano castrato, voice teacher (died 1800)
• February – Susannah Maria Cibber, singer and actress, daughter of Thomas Arne (died 1766)
• February 2 – Gottfried August Homilius, composer, cantor and organist (died 1785)
• February 28 – Gioacchino Conti, soprano castrato opera singer (died 1761)
• March 8 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (died 1788)
• April 16 – Pedro António Avondano, Portuguese composer
• May 6 – Anton Raaff, tenor (died 1797)
• May 12 – Johan Daniel Berlin composer (died 1787)
• July 2 – Christoph Willibald Gluck (died 1787)
• September 10 – Niccolò Jommelli, composer (died 1774)
• December 23 – Ranieri de' Calzabigi, librettist collaborating with Gluck (died 1795)
• date unknown
  • Antonio Besozzi, Italian oboist and composer (died 1781)
  • Abade António da Costa, Portuguese composer (died 1780)
  • Johan Foltmar, composer (died 1794)
  • Christian Gottlob Hubert, builder of keyboard instruments (died 1793)
  • Edmund Pascha, organist and composer (died 1772)
• probable – Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi, luthier (died 1771)

Deaths

• January 4 – Atto Melani, opera singer (born 1626)
• April 17 – Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer (born 1657)
• August 25 – Johann Georg Kühnhausen, composer (date of birth unknown)
• September 3 – Pietro Antonio Fiocco, composer (born 1654)
• November 13 – Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, organist (born 1632)
• date unknown – Benito Bello de Torices, Spanish composer, maestro at the Convent of Las Descalzas Reales (born c.1660)