1719 in music
This article lists the most significant events and works of the year 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