1702 in music

The year 1702 in music involved some significant events.

Events

13 March – A month after commencing his university education, 17-year-old George Frideric Handel accepts the position of organist at Halle Cathedral, replacing J. C. Leporin, for whom he had acted as assistant.
Johann Sebastian Bach concludes his musical education at St. Michael's School in Lüneburg.
Georg Philipp Telemann becomes director of Leipzig opera, and founds Leipzig Collegium Musicum.
Alessandro Scarlatti leaves Naples and seeks the patronage of Prince Ferdinando de' Medici.
Michel de Saint-Lambert publishes Les principes du clavecin.
Probable year – German Baroque composer Jakob Greber moves from Italy to London – accompanied by his mistress, operatic soprano Margherita de L'Épine – where he will remain for three years composing incidental music for plays and arias for L'Épine, including those for this year's première of Nicholas Rowe's play The Fair Penitent.

Giovanni Henrico Albicastro – Sonate a violino solo col basso continuo
Tomaso Albinoni
*Lontananza crudel, mi squarci il core, T.204.04
*Poiché al vago seren di due pupille, T.205
Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns – St John Passion
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
*Extremum Dei judicium, H.401
*Judicium Salomonis, performed for the opening of the French parliament
François Couperin
*Quatre versets d'un motet composé et chanté par ordre du roy
*Qui dat nivem sicut lanam
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
*Ariadne musica
*Tafelmusik
Louis Marchand – Pièces de clavecin, Livre 1
James Paisible
*6 Sonatas of Two Parts
*Airs for the play King Edward the Third
*Airs for the comedy She Would and She Would Not
Alessandro Scarlatti – Mottetti sacri ad una, due, trè, e quattro voci con violini
Francesco Scarlatti – Dixit dominus
Johannes Schenck – Le nymphe di Rheno, 12 sonatas and suites for 2 violas da gamba, Op. 8
Johann Speth – Ars Magna Consoni et Dissoni
Francisco Valls – Missa Scala Aretina
Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow – ''Danksaget dem Vater''