1700 in music
The year 1700 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- John Eccles is appointed Master of the King's Musick.
- William Croft returns to the Chapel Royal, where he had been educated, as a "gentleman organist".
- William Corbett becomes director of the New Theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields.
- Johann Sebastian Bach becomes a chorister at St. Michael's Church, Lüneburg.
- Tomaso Albinoni is employed as a violinist by Fernando Carlo, Duke of Mantua.
- An inventory of musical instruments kept by Prince Ferdinando de Medici provides the first evidence for the existence of the pianoforte.
Classical music
- Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni – Sinfonie e concerti op. 2
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- *Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 549a
- *Christ, der du bist der helle Tag, BWV 766
- John Blow – Amphion Anglicus
- Jacques Boyvin – Livre d'orgue II
- Sébastien de Brossard – O miraculum!, SdB.006
- Antonio Caldara
- *La frode della castità
- *Il trionfo dell'innocenzaChoice Collection of Ayres for the Harpsichord or Spinnet by John Blow, Jeremiah Clarke, Francis Piggott, John Barrett and William Croft
- Jeremiah Clarke – Prince of Denmark's March
- Arcangelo Corelli – XII Suonati a violino e violone o cimbalo, published in Rome
- John Eccles – The Mad Lover
- Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer – Musicalischer Parnassus
- Godfrey Keller
- * The Royal Trumpett-Suite
- * 8 Trio Sonatas
- Johann Kuhnau – Musicalische Vorstellung einiger biblischer Historien, published in Leipzig
- Johann Sigismund Kusser
- * 6 Overture Suites 'Apollon Enjoué
- * 6 Overture Suites 'Festin des Muses
- Isabella Leonarda – Motetti a voce sola con istromenti, Op.20
- Alessandro Scarlatti – Il rosignolo se scioglie il volo, H.318
Opera
- Carlo Agostino Badia – La costanza d'Ulisse
- André Campra – Hésione
- John Eccles – The Judgment of Paris
- Alessandro Scarlatti – ''Eracles''
Publications
- Jacques Boyvin – Traité abrégé de l'accompagnement
- Johann Kuhnau – Der musicalische Quack-Salber
- Friedrich Erhardt Niedt – ''Musicalische Handleitung''
Births
- January 14 – Picander, librettist for Johann Sebastian Bach
- March 13 – Michel Blavet, flautist
- April 2 – Francesca Cuzzoni, opera singer
- probable
- *Sebastian Bodinus, composer
- *Jean-Baptiste Masse, cellist and composer
Deaths
- January 16 – Antonio Draghi, opera composer
- February 8 – Filippo Acciaiuoli, opera composer, librettist and manager
- June 6 – Wespazjan Kochowski, historian, poet and writer
- probable
- *August Kühnel, viola da gamba player and composer
- *Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, violist and composer