1718 in music

Events

• Antonio Vivaldi tours Italy.
• Handel succeeds Johann Christoph Pepusch as Kapellmeister to the Duke of Chandos.
• Johann Joachim Quantz settles in Dresden.
• 14-year-old Carlos Seixas succeeds his father as organist at Coimbra Cathedral.

Classical music

• Attilio Ariosti – Recueil de pièces
• William Babell – The Harpsichord Master Improved
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• *Lobet den Herrn, alle seine Heerscharen, BWV Anh.5
• *Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV Anh.77
• *Der Himmel dacht auf Anhalts Ruhm und Glück, BWV 66a
• *Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht, BWV 134a
• *Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten, BWV 202
• *Amore traditore, BWV 203
• *Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her, BWV 738
• *Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042
• *Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor, BWV 1043
• *Sinfonia in F major, BWV 1046a
• *Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047
• *Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048
• *Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major, BWV 1066
• Antonio Caldara – Il martirio di San Terenziano
• Pietro Castrucci – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1
• Francesco Bartolomeo Conti – Amore in Tessaglia
• Jean-François Dandrieu – Les caractères de la guerre
• Johann Ernst Prinz von Sachsen-Weimar – 6 Violin Concertos, Op. 1
• Christoph Graupner – 8 Partitas
• George Frideric Handel
• *Esther HWV 50a
• *Dolc' è pur d'amor l'affanno, HWV 109b
• *L'aure grate, il fresco rio, HWV 121a
• *As Pants the Hart, HWV 251b
• Francesco Manfredini – 12 Concertos, Op. 3
• Pierre Danican Philidor
• *4 Suites, Op. 2
• *3 Suites, Op. 3
• Georg Philipp Telemann
• * 6 Suonatine per violino e cembalo
• * 6 Trio Sonatas
• * Concerto for 2 Recorders, TWV 52:a2
• Antonio Vivaldi – Qual in pioggia dorata, RV 686
• Giovanni Zamboni – Sonate d'intavolatura di leuto, Op. 1
• Jan Dismas Zelenka
• * Capriccio in G major, ZWV 183
• * Capriccio in F major, ZWV 184
• * Collectaneorum Musicorum, Book II

Opera

• Toussaint Bertin de la Doué – Le Jugement de Paris
• Antonio Maria Bononcini – Griselda
• Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello – Tisbe, Premiered Jan. 26 in Stuttgart
• Antonio Caldara – Ifigenia in Aulide
• George Frideric Handel – Acis and Galatea HWV 49
• Nicola Porpora – Berenice regina d'Egitto
• Domenico Natale Sarro – Arsace
• Alessandro Scarlatti
• *Cambise, R.356.64
• *Il trionfo dell'onore
• *Telemaco
• Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel – Diomedes
• Antonio Vivaldi
• *Armida al campo d'Egitto, RV 699
• *Scanderbeg, RV 732
• *Tito Manlio, RV 738

Theoretical Writings

• Jean-François Dandrieu – ''Principes de l'Acompagnement du Clavecin''

Births

• January 18 – Christoph Ludwig Fehre, organist and composer
• April 14 – Emanuele Barbella, Italian composer and violinist
• August 9 – Placidus von Camerloher, German composer
• September 25 – Nicola Conforto, composer
• November 8 – Joseph Aloys Schmittbaur, composer
• November 21 – Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, music critic and composer
• date unknown
• *Wenzel Raimund Birck, composer
• *Mademoiselle Duval
• *Richard Mudge, composer
• *Giuseppe Scarlatti, composer
• December 3 – Richard Duke, violin maker

Deaths

• February 27 – Václav Karel Holan Rovenský, composer
• March – Richard Brind, organist and composer
• March 13 – Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns, composer
• April 1 – Johann Burchard Freystein, hymn writer
• November 26 – Bernardo Sabadini, opera composer