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1718 in music
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The year
1718 in music
involved some significant events.
Contents
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Events
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Classical music
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Opera
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Births
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Deaths
Events
Antonio Vivaldi
tours Italy.
Handel succeeds
Johann Christoph Pepusch
as Kapellmeister to the Duke of Chandos.
Johann Joachim Quantz
settles in Dresden.
14-year-old
Carlos Seixas
succeeds his father as organist at Coimbra Cathedral.
Classical music
William Babell
–
The Harpsichord Master Improved
George Frideric Handel
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Esther
(oratorio)
Francesco Manfredini
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Concerti grossi, Op. 3: no 12 in C major "Christmas Concerto"
Opera
Toussaint Bertin de la Doué
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Le Jugement de Paris
Antonio Maria Bononcini
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Astianatte
and
Griselda
George Frideric Handel
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Acis and Galatea
Nicola Porpora
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Berenice regina d'Egitto
Alessandro Scarlatti
Il trionfo dell'onore
Telemaco
Antonio Vivaldi
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Scanderbeg
Births
September 4
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Carl Heinrich Biber
, composer and son of
Heinrich Ignaz Biber
November 21
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Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg
, music critic and composer (d. 1795)
Deaths
February 27
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Václav Karel Holan Rovenský
, composer (b. 1644)
March –
Richard Brind
, organist and composer
March 13
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Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns
, composer (b. 1637)
November 26
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Bernardo Sabadini
, opera composer