1702 in music

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The year 1702 in music involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Births 6 Deaths 7 References

[edit] Events

• Johann Sebastian Bach leaves Lüneburg.
• Georg Philipp Telemann becomes director of Leipzig opera, and founds Leipzig Collegium Musicum.
• George Frideric Handel becomes organist at Halle.
• Alessandro Scarlatti leaves Naples and seeks the patronage of Prince Ferdinando de' Medici.

[edit] Published popular music

• Tavern Bilkers, burlesque by John Weaver

[edit] Classical music

• Giovanni Henrico Albicastro - Sonate a violino solo col basso continuo
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier - Judicium Salomonis, performed for the opening of the French parliament^[1]
• Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer - Ariadne musica

[edit] Opera

The following operas were composed:

• André Campra - Tancrède
• Pietro Torri - Torneo

[edit] Births

• January 6 - Jose Melchior de Nebra Blascu, composer
• February 10 - Jean-Pierre Guignon, composer
• February 27 - Johann Valentin Gorner, composer
• March 25 - Christian Gottlieb Ziegler, composer
• March 27 - Johann Ernst Eberlin (died 1762)
• July 6 - Franz Anton Maichelbeck, composer
• July 17 - Johann Schneider, composer
• September 6 - Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer

[edit] Deaths

• May 5 - Jacob Hintze, composer
• September 17 - Olof Rudbeck, composer (born 1630)
• November 4 - Thomas Eisenhut, composer
• date unknown - Nicolas-Antoine Lebègue, French harpsichordist (born 1632)

[edit] References

1. ^ Palisca, Claude V. [1968] (1991). Baroque Music, 3rd, Prentice Hall History of Music, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 289. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.