The year 1716 in music involved some significant events.
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Events
- July 1 – Domenico Zipoli joins the Society of Jesus. Soon afterwards he is sent on a mission to Paraguay.
- Georg Philipp Telemann visits Eisenach, resulting in an appointment as visiting Kapellmeister.
- Antonio Stradivari – completes Le Messie violin (The Messiah Stradivarius)
- Jonathan Swift conceives the idea for the Beggar's Opera.
- Giuseppe Tartini hears Francesco Maria Veracini play the violin, and is inspired.[clarification needed]
Classical music
- William Babell – The Fourth Book of the Ladys Entertainment
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Wachet, betet, seid bereit allezeit!, BWV 70a
- Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147a
- Mein Gott, wie lang, ach lange, BWV 155
- Komm, du süsse Todesstunde, BWV 161
- Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV 186a
- In dir ist Freude, BWV 615
- Diogenio Bigaglia – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1
- Louis-Nicolas Clérambault – Cantates françoises, Book 3
- François Couperin
- Second livre de pièces de clavecin
- L'art de toucher le clavecin
- Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 4
- Domenico Elmi – Oboe Concerto in A minor
- Francesco Geminiani – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1
- Georgio Gentili – 12 Violin Concertos, Op. 6
- Christoph Graupner
- Verleih dass ich aus Herzensgrund, GWV 1114/16
- Muss ich denn noch ferner leiden, GWV 1145/16
- Gott ist für uns gestorben, GWV 1152/16
- George Frideric Handel
- Concerto Grosso in F major, HWV 315
- 6 Fugues, HWV 605–610
- Johann Kuhnau – Wenn ihr fröhlich seid an euren Festen
- Jean-Baptiste Loeillet – 12 Recorder Sonatas, Op. 4
- Michel Montéclair – Musette (Les festes de l'été)
- Giovanni Mossi – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1
- Alessandro Scarlatti – Ombre tacite e sole
- Georg Philipp Telemann
- Concerto for 3 Trumpets, 2 Oboes, Timpani and Strings in D major
- Brockes Passion, TWV 5:1
- Germania mit ihrem Chor, TWV 12:1c
- Kleine Kammermusik
- Francesco Maria Veracini
- Six Overtures (first performed, Venice)
- 12 Sonate a violino o flauto solo e basso (manuscript)
- Robert di Visée – Pièces de théorbe et de luth
- Antonio Vivaldi
- La stravaganza, Op. 4
- 6 Violin Sonatas, Op. 5
- 12 Concerti, Op.7
- Violin Concerto in C major, RV 195
- Violin Concerto in D major, RV 205
- Violin Concerto in D minor, RV 245
- Violin Concerto in F major, RV 292
- Violin Concerto in G minor, RV 319
- Violin Concerto in A major, RV 340
- Violin Concerto in A major, RV 343
- Gloria in D major, RV 589
- Juditha Triumphans, RV 644
- Recorder Sonata in G major, RV 806
- Jan Dismas Zelenka
- Deus dux fortissime, ZWV 60
- Da pacem Domine, ZWV 167
- Domenico Zipoli – Sonate d'intavolatura per organo e cimbalo, Op. 1
Opera
- Antonio Maria Bononcini – Sesostri re d'Egitto
- Giuseppe Maria Buini – Armida abbandonata
- Francesco Ciampi – Timocrate
- Francesco Bartolomeo Conti – Il finto Policare
- Johann Christoph Pepusch – Apollo and Daphne
- Carlo Francesco Pollarolo – Ariodante
- Alessandro Scarlatti – Carlo re d'Allemagna
- Antonio Vivaldi
Publications
- Johann Heinrich Buttstett – Ut, mi, sol, re, fa, la, tota musica et harmonia aeterna
- François Campion – Traité d'accompagnement et de composition
- Estienne Roger – Concerti a Cinque con Violini, Oboè, Violetta, Violoncello e Basso Continuo del Signori G. Valentini, A. Vivaldi, T. Albinoni, F. M. Veracini, G. St. Martin, A. Marcello, G. Rampin, A. Predieri
Births
- February 9 – Johann Trier, composer
- March 21 – Josef Seger, composer (died 1782)
- April 12 – Felice Giardini, violinist and composer (died 1796)
- c. 1716/17 – John Beard, tenor and actor-manager (died 1791)
Deaths
- August 3 – Sebastián Durón, composer (b. 1660)
- September 25 – Johann Christoph Pez, composer (b. 1664)
- October 1 – Giovanni Battista Bassani, composer, violinist and organist (born c. 1650)
- November – Johann Aegidus Bach, organist and uncle of Johann Sebastian (born 1645)
- December 1 – Johann Samuel Drese, composer (b. c. 1644)
- December 6 – Benedictus Buns, Dutch religious composer (b. 1642)
- date unknown – Carlo Giuseppe Testore, double bass maker (born c. 1665)
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