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See also: 1713 in music, other events of 1714, 1715 in music, list of years in music.

Contents 1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Opera 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• A school of dance opens at the Paris Opera.
• Domenico Scarlatti becomes maestro di cappella at the Cappella Giulia in the Vatican.
• Francesco Geminiani arrives in London, where he obtains the patronage of William Capel, 3rd Earl of Essex.
• Georg Melchior Hoffmann, composer, marries Margaretha Elisabeth Philipp; he is already suffering from a terminal illness.
• Francesco Maria Veracini visits London and performs at the Queen's Theatre.

[edit] Classical music

• Utrecht Te Deum - George Frideric Handel
• The Little Organ Book - Johann Sebastian Bach

[edit] Opera

• Leonardo Leo - Pisistrato
• Jean-Joseph Mouret - Les Fêtes ou Le Triomphe de Thalie

[edit] Births

• March 8 - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (died 1788)
• March 24 - Carlo Giovanni Testori, composer
• July 2 - Christoph Willibald Gluck (died71787 )
• September 10 - Niccolò Jommelli, composer (died 1774)
• September 25 - Jean-Benoit Leclair, composer
• December 23 - Johann Siebenkas, composer

[edit] Deaths

• April 17 - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer
• date unknown - Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, organist (born 1632)