1702 in music
# 1702 in music

The year 1702 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* 13 March – A month after commencing his university education, 17-year-old George Frideric Handel accepts the position of organist at Halle Cathedral, replacing J. C. Leporin, for whom he had acted as assistant.
* Johann Sebastian Bach concludes his musical education at St. Michael's School in Lüneburg.
* Georg Philipp Telemann becomes director of Leipzig opera, and founds Leipzig Collegium Musicum.
* Alessandro Scarlatti leaves Naples and seeks the patronage of Prince Ferdinando de' Medici.
* Michel de Saint-Lambert publishes Les principes du clavecin.
* Probable year – German Baroque composer Jakob Greber moves from Italy to London – accompanied by his mistress, operatic soprano Margherita de L'Épine – where he will remain for three years composing incidental music for plays and arias for L'Épine, including those for this year's première of Nicholas Rowe's play The Fair Penitent.

## Published popular music

* Tavern Bilkers, burlesque by John Weaver

## Classical music

* Giovanni Henrico Albicastro – Sonate a violino solo col basso continuo
* Tomaso Albinoni
   * Lontananza crudel, mi squarci il core, T.204.04 (Op. 4)
   * Poiché al vago seren di due pupille, T.205
* Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns – St John Passion (formerly attributed to Reinhard Keiser)
* Marc-Antoine Charpentier
   * Extremum Dei judicium, H.401
   * Judicium Salomonis, performed for the opening of the French parliament
* François Couperin
   * Quatre versets d'un motet composé et chanté par ordre du roy
   * Qui dat nivem sicut lanam
* Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
   * Ariadne musica
   * Tafelmusik
* Louis Marchand – Pièces de clavecin, Livre 1
* James Paisible
   * 6 Sonatas of Two Parts
   * Airs for the play King Edward the Third
   * Airs for the comedy She Would and She Would Not
* Alessandro Scarlatti – Mottetti sacri ad una, due, trè, e quattro voci con violini
* Francesco Scarlatti – Dixit dominus (Psalm 110)
* Johannes Schenck – Le nymphe di Rheno, 12 sonatas and suites for 2 violas da gamba, Op. 8 (Amsterdam)
* Johann Speth – Ars Magna Consoni et Dissoni
* Francisco Valls – Missa Scala Aretina
* Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow – Danksaget dem Vater

## 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)

## 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)
