1720 in music

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

[edit] Events

• Royal Academy of Music opens in London.
• Domenico Scarlatti arrives in Lisbon.

[edit] Classical music

• Prelude for Lute in C minor - Johann Sebastian Bach
• Horae Pomeridianae - Jan Josef Ignac Brentner
• Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris - Marin Marais
• Messa di Santa Cecilia - Alessandro Scarlatti

[edit] Opera

• Antonio Maria Bononcini - Nino
• George Frideric Handel - Radamisto
• Johann David Heinichen - Flavio Crispo
• Leonardo Leo - Caio Gracco
• Giovanni Porta - Numitore
• Antonio Vivaldi - La verità in cimento

[edit] Births

• January 4 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, composer (died 1774)
• November 16 - Carlo Antonio Campioni, composer (died 1788)
• October 17- Maria Teresa Agnesi, singer and composer (died 1795)
• probable - Bernhard Joachim Hagen, composer (died 1787)

[edit] Deaths

• July 27 - Johann Samuel Welter, composer
• July - Maria Barbara Bach, first wife of Johann Sebastian Bach (born 1684)