1727 in music

The year 1727 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Farinelli performs at Bologna, where he meets his mentor, Antonio Bernacchi.
• The Davidov-Morrini, ex General Dupont and Holroyd violins are made by Antonio Stradivari.
• Johann Adolph Hasse arrives in Venice.
• Louis-Claude Daquin is appointed organist at St Paul's in Paris.
• Agostino Steffani visits Italy for the last time, and meets Handel at the palace of Cardinal Ottoboni in Rome.
• George Frideric Handel is commissioned to write four anthems for the coronation ceremony of King George II of Great Britain.
• April 11 - Johann Sebastian Bach gives the première of his St Matthew Passion BWV 244b (BC D 3a) at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig

Classical music

• George Frideric Handel – Zadok the Priest (one of the four Coronation Anthems he wrote in 1727)
• Antonio Vivaldi – La Cetra (The lyre) (Op. 9), 2 violin concertos and 1 for 2 violins, published in Amsterdam

Opera

• Antonio Bioni – Attalo ed Arsinoe
• George Frideric Handel
  • Admeto
  • Riccardo Primo
• Leonardo Leo – Il Cid
• Benedetto Marcello – Arianna
• Nicola Porpora – Ezio
• Antonio Vivaldi
  • Farnace
  • Orlando furioso

Births

• February 25 – Armand-Louis Couperin, organist, harpsichordist and composer (died 1789)
• March 9 – Johann Gottlieb Preller, cantor and composer (died 1786)
• March 14 – Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, harpsichordist, organist and composer (died 1756)
• March 30 – Tommaso Traetta, composer (died 1779)
• April 5 – Pasquale Anfossi, opera composer (died 1797)
• April 29 – Jean-Georges Noverre, a founder of modern ballet (died 1810)
• date unknown
  • Marie Favart, singer, dancer and actress (died 1772)
  • Rosa Scarlatti, opera singer (died 1775)

Deaths

• February 22 – Francesco Gasparini, composer (born 1661)
• May – Daniel Roseingrave, organist and composer (born c. 1655)
• August 14 – William Croft, organist and composer (born 1678)
• December 1 – Johann Heinrich Buttstett, organist and composer (born 1666)