1719 in music

Events

• February – George Frideric Handel leaves his employment at Cannons to become musical director of the Royal Academy of Music (1719). Giovanni Bononcini is brought to London to compose for the Academy.
• August 20 – Francesco Veracini performs at the palace of Moritzburg for the wedding of the Crown Prince to Maria Josepha of Austria.
• November 29 – Domenico Scarlatti arrives in Lisbon to take up his post as kapellmeister to João V of Portugal.
• Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf founds the firm of Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig, the world's oldest music publisher.
• Alessandro Scarlatti arrives in Rome.
• Johann Mattheson becomes kapellmeister to the Duke of Holstein.
• Giuseppe Pitoni becomes choirmaster of St Peter's in Rome.
• Antonio Stradivarius makes the "Duke of Marlborough" cello.
• In Japan, the Kumiodori dance form is created by Chokun Tamagusuku.
• Jean-Baptiste Morin becomes "maître de musique" to Louise-Adélaïde, daughter of the Duke of Orléans.

Published popular music

• Thomas Fleet – ''Mother Goose's Melodies For Children''

Classical music

• Johann Sebastian Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
• Johann Joseph Fux – Gesù Cristo negato da Pietro
• Christoph Graupner – Ich bleibe Gott getreu, GWV 1106/19
• George Friedrich Handel
• *Di godere ha speranza il mio core , HWV 288-7
• *Pièces à un & deux clavecins ; Contains Keyboard Sonata in G major, HWV 579
• Johann David Heinichen – Diana sull'Elba
• Jacques-Martin Hotteterre – L'Art de préluder sur la flûte traversière, Op. 7
• George Philipp Telemann
• *Violin Concerto, TWV 51:B1
• *Machet die Tore weit, TWV 1:1074
• Antonio Vivaldi – 6 Concerti, Op.6

Opera

• Antonio Caldara – Lucio Papirio dittatore, premiered Nov. 4 in Vienna
• Francesco Gasparini
• *L'Astianatte, premiered in Rome during Carnival
• *Lucio Vero, premiered January in Rome
• Antonio Lotti – Teofane, premiered Sept. 13 in Dresden
• Alessandro Scarlatti
• *Cambise, premiered Feb. 4 in Naples
• *Marco Attilio Regolò
• Antonio Vivaldi
• *Tito Manlio, premiered January in Mantua
• *''Il Teuzzone''

Births

• April 2 – Vincenzo Legrenzo Ciampi
• April 17 – Christian Gottfried Krause, composer
• by May 4 – Antoine Mahaut, composer
• July 16 – William Walond Sr., composer
• September 3 – Ferdinand Zellbell the Younger, Swedish composer
• October 12 – Ignaz Franz, Kapellmeister and composer
• November 9 – Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, polymath
• November 14 – Leopold Mozart, baroque composer
• November 23 – Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, music publisher

Deaths

• January 19 – Joachim Tielke, German instrument-maker
• May – John Lenton, violinist, singer and composer
• June 11 – Johann Abraham Schmierer, composer
• July – Johann Valentin Meder, organist, singer and composer
• July 26 – Johann Georg Christian Störl, organist and composer
• July 28 – Arp Schnitger, organ builder
• date unknown
• *Michael Mietke, maker of harpsichords and harps
• *Juan de Navas, harpist and composer
• *André Raison, organist and composer
• probable
• *Johann Speth, composer
• *Francesco Antonio Urio, composer