1712 in music

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The year 1712 in music involved some significant events.

Events

George Frideric Handel re-locates to London.
Johann Georg Pisendel joins the court orchestra at Dresden.
March 25 Possible premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Mark Passion pastiche at the chapel of Wilhelmsburg Castle (two movements by Bach).

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)

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

January
- David Owen, harpist (died 1741)
- Cecilia Young, soprano, wife of Thomas Arne (died 1789)
January 17 – John Stanley, composer and organist (died 1786)
January 24 – Frederick II of Prussia, enthusiastic amateur musician and composer (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
date unknown – John Christopher Smith, composer (died 1795)
date unknown - Sophia Schröder, vocalist at the Kungliga Hovkapellet (died 1750)