1704 in music
The year 1704 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- Johann Christoph Pepusch arrives in London.
- Following her husband's death, Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre begins hosting concerts in her home.
- Antonio Vivaldi becomes general superintendent of music at the Ospedale della Pietà, Venice.
- Johann Jacob Bach becomes an oboist in the army of King Charles XII of Sweden, inspiring Johann Sebastian to write a Capriccio on the Absence of His Most Beloved Brother.
- During a performance of Johann Mattheson's opera, Cleopatra, the composer almost kills his friend, Georg Frideric Handel, in a violent quarrel.
Classical music
- Henricus Albicastro – Concerti, Op.7
- Attilo Ariosti – La madre dei Maccabei
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- *Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150
- *Toccata and Fugue D Minor BWV 565
- *Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BWV 742
- *Sonata in D major, BWV 963
- *Capriccio in B-flat major, BWV 992
- Antonio Caldara – Il trionfo dell'innocenza
- Louis-Nicolas Clérambault – Livre de pièces de clavecin
- François Couperin – 7 Versets du motet composé de l'ordre du roy, 1704
- William Croft – 6 Sonatas of Two Parts
- Michel Richard Delalande – Dominus regnavit, S.65
- George Frideric Handel – Oboe Concerto in G minor, HWV 287
- Reinhard Keiser – Der blutige und sterbende Jesus
- Michele Mascitti – Sonate, Op.1
- Jean-Baptiste Morin – Motets à une et deux voix, Livre I
- James Paisible – Musick perform'd before Her Majesty and the new King of Spain
- Alessandro Scarlatti
- *Perdono, Amor, perdono, H.554
- *S. Casimiro, re di Pononia
- Johann Schenck – 2 Sonatas for 2 Viols
- Giovanni Battista Tibaldi – 12 Trio Sonatas, Op.2
Opera
- Attilo Ariosti – I gloriosi presagi di Scipione Africano
- Giovanni Bononcini
- *Il fiore delle eroine
- *Il ritorno di Giulio Cesare
- Francesco Bartolomeo Conti – Alba Cornelia
- Johann Mattheson – Die unglückselige Cleopatra
- Carlo Francesco Pollarolo – Irene.
Births
- May 7 – Carl Heinrich Graun, composer and singer
- June 11 – Carlos Seixas, composer
- October 2 – František Tůma, organist and composer
- December 31 – Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, organist
- probable – Claude Parisot, organ builder
Deaths
- February 7 – Lady Mary Dering, composer
- February 23 – Georg Muffat, composer
- February 24 – Marc-Antoine Charpentier, composer
- February 25 – Isabella Leonarda, composer of church music
- April – Georg Christoph Strattner, friend and colleague of Bach at Lüneburg
- May 3 – Heinrich Ignaz Biber, violinist and composer
- September 6 – Francesco Provenzale, composer
- November 2 – Johann Jakob Walther, violinist and composer
- November 16 – Chikka Devaraja, ruler of Mysore, composer and music theorist
- December 14
- *Selim I Giray, Crimean khan, also known as a poet and musician
- *Joseph-François Duché de Vancy, librettist