1723 in music

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The year 1723 in music involved some significant events.

Events

April 13 – Johann Sebastian Bach is given permission to leave Köthen to take up his new appointment as Cantor and Musical Director of the Thomaskirche, Leipzig; to obtain the post, he had beaten off opposition from several prominent musicians, including Georg Friedrich Kauffmann.
Handel moves to 25 Brook Street, London, now the Handel House Museum.
Alessandro Scarlatti begins his last major work, a serenata for the marriage of the prince of Stigliano, which will be left unfinished at his death.
Publication of Opinioni de' cantori antichi e moderni by Pier Francesco Tosi.
Francesco Maria Veracini returns to Florence after a period in Germany.
Antonio Vandini and Giuseppe Tartini go into the service of Count Kinsky in Prague.

Johann Sebastian Bach – Two-Part Invention no 6 in E major for violin and cello
Antonio Maria Bononcini – Stabat Mater
Louis-Antoine Dornel – Concerts de simphonies
Marin Marais – Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris
Georg Philipp Telemann
- Hamburger Admiralitätsmusik (Hamburg Admiralty Music)
- Overture-Suite in C major, TV 55 no C 3 "Wassermusik"
Jan Dismas Zelenka – Concerto a 8 in G major
Antonio Vivaldi – The Four Seasons

April 25 – Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer (died 1797)
November 9 – Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia, composer (died 1787)
December 22 – Carl Friedrich Abel, composer (died 1787)
date unknown:
- Pascal Taskin, harpsichord and piano maker (died 1793)
- Francesco Uttini, conductor and composer (died 1795)