1700 in music
# 1700 in music

The year 1700 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* John Eccles is appointed Master of the King's Musick.
* William Croft returns to the Chapel Royal, where he had been educated, as a "gentleman organist".
* William Corbett becomes director of the New Theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields.
* Johann Sebastian Bach becomes a chorister at St. Michael's Church, Lüneburg.
* Tomaso Albinoni is employed as a violinist by Fernando Carlo, Duke of Mantua.
* An inventory of musical instruments kept by Prince Ferdinando de Medici provides the first evidence for the existence of the pianoforte.

## Classical music

* Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni – Sinfonie e concerti op. 2
* Johann Sebastian Bach
   * Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 549a
   * Christ, der du bist der helle Tag, BWV 766
* John Blow – Amphion Anglicus
* Jacques Boyvin – Livre d'orgue II
* Sébastien de Brossard – O miraculum!, SdB.006
* Antonio Caldara
   * La frode della castità
   * Il trionfo dell'innocenza
* Choice Collection of Ayres for the Harpsichord or Spinnet by John Blow, Jeremiah Clarke, Francis Piggott, John Barrett and William Croft
* Jeremiah Clarke – Prince of Denmark's March (approximate date)
* Arcangelo Corelli – XII Suonati a violino e violone o cimbalo (Op. 5), published in Rome
* John Eccles – The Mad Lover
* Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer – Musicalischer Parnassus
* Godfrey Keller
   * The Royal Trumpett-Suite
   * 8 Trio Sonatas
* Johann Kuhnau – Musicalische Vorstellung einiger biblischer Historien (Biblical sonatas), published in Leipzig
* Johann Sigismund Kusser
   * 6 Overture Suites 'Apollon Enjoué'
   * 6 Overture Suites 'Festin des Muses'
* Isabella Leonarda – Motetti a voce sola con istromenti, Op.20
* Alessandro Scarlatti – Il rosignolo se scioglie il volo, H.318

## Opera

* Carlo Agostino Badia – La costanza d'Ulisse
* André Campra – Hésione
* John Eccles – The Judgment of Paris
* Alessandro Scarlatti – Eracles

## Publications

* Jacques Boyvin – Traité abrégé de l'accompagnement
* Johann Kuhnau – Der musicalische Quack-Salber
* Friedrich Erhardt Niedt – Musicalische Handleitung

## Births

* January 14 – Picander, librettist for Johann Sebastian Bach (died 1764)
* March 13 – Michel Blavet, flautist (died 1768)
* April 2 – Francesca Cuzzoni, opera singer (died 1770)
* probable
   * Sebastian Bodinus, composer (d. 1759)
   * Jean-Baptiste Masse, cellist and composer (died c.1757)

## Deaths

* January 16 – Antonio Draghi, opera composer (born c.1634)
* February 8 – Filippo Acciaiuoli, opera composer, librettist and manager (born 1637)
* June 6 – Wespazjan Kochowski, historian, poet and writer (born 1633)
* probable
   * August Kühnel, viola da gamba player and composer (b. 1645)
   * Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, violist and composer (born c.1640)
