1712 in music

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The year 1712 in music involved some significant events.

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

[edit] Events

• George Frideric Handel re-locates to London.
• Johann Georg Pisendel joins the court orchestra at Dresden.

[edit] Classical music

• Francesco Antonio Bonporti - Opus X for violin
• Henry Carey - Setting of "The Lord My Pasture Shall Prepare" (hymn) by Joseph Addison
• Benedetto Marcello - Sonatas for Recorder and Basso Continuo
• Francesco Maria Veracini - Il trionfo della innocenza patrocinata da S. NiccoI (oratorio)

[edit] Opera

• André Campra - Idomenée
• George Frideric Handel - Il Pastor Fido
• John Hughes (1677-1720) and John Ernest Galliard (d. 1747) - Calypso and Telemachus (opera)^[1]
• Antonio Lotti - Porsenna

[edit] Births

• January 17 - John Stanley (died 1786)
• January 24 - Frederick II of Prussia, enthusiastic amateur musician (died 1786)
• March 13 - Isfrid Kayser, composer
• June 28 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, polymath (died 1778)
• July - John Hebden, musician and composer (died 1765)
• December 1 - Bernhard Christian Weber

[edit] Deaths

• April 29 - Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer
• August 4 - Johann Jacob de Neufville, composer
• August 7 - Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau, organist at Halle (born 1663)
• August 24 - Thomas Bullis, composer
• August 26 - Sebastian Anton Scherer, composer
• September 30 - Johann Michael Zacher, composer
• November 6 - Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer (born 1654)
• date unknown
  • Carlo Alessandro Guidi, poet and songwriter (born 1650)
  • Johann Nikolaus Hanff, organist and composer (born 1665)

[edit] References