1704 in music

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Contents 1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Opera 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Johann Christoph Pepusch arrives in London.
• Following her husband's death, Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre begins hosting concerts in her home.
• Antonio Vivaldi becomes general superintendent of music at the Conservatory of the Pieta, Venice.
• Johann Jacob Bach becomes an oboist in the army of King Charles XII of Sweden, inspiring Johann Sebastian to write a Capriccio on the Absence of His Most Beloved Brother.
• During a performance of Johann Mattheson's opera, Cleopatra, the composer almost kills his friend, Georg Frideric Handel, in a violent quarrel.

[edit] Classical music

• Setting by Reinhard Keiser of Der blutige und sterbende Jesus by Christian Friedrich Hunold
• Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich (cantata) by Johann Sebastian Bach

[edit] Opera

• Johann Mattheson - Die unglückselige Cleopatra
• Carlo Francesco Pollarolo - Irene (revised by Domenico Scarlatti for performance at Naples).

[edit] Births

• June 11 - Carlos Seixas, composer (died 1742)
• date unknown - Carl Heinrich Graun, composer and singer (died 1759)
• date unknown - František Tůma, organist and composer (died 1774)

[edit] Deaths

• February 23 - Georg Muffat, composer (born 1653)
• February 24 - Marc-Antoine Charpentier, composer (born 1643)
• February 25 - Isabella Leonarda, composer of church music (born 1620)
• May 3 - Heinrich Ignaz Biber, violinist and composer (born 1644)
• date unknown - Francesco Provenzale, composer (born 1624)
• date unknown - G.C. Strattner, friend and colleague of Bach at Lüneburg.