1714 in music - Definition

See also: 1713 in music, other events of 1714, 1715 in music, list of years in music.

Events

• A school of dance opens at the Paris Opera.
• Domenico Scarlatti becomes maestro di cappella at the Cappella Giulia in the Vatican.
• Francesco Geminiani arrives in London.
• Georg Melchior Hoffmann, composer, marries Margaretha Elisabeth Philipp; he is already suffering from a terminal illness.

Classical music

• Utrecht Te Deum - George Frideric Handel
• The Little Organ Book - Johann Sebastian Bach

Opera

• Pisistrato - Leonardo Leo

Births

• March 8 - Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach
• March 24 - Carlo Giovanni Testori, compsoer
• July 2 - Christoph Willibald Gluck
• September 10 - Niccolò Jommelli, composer
• September 25 - Jean-Benoit Leclair, composer
• December 23 - Johann Siebenkas, composer

Deaths

• April 17 - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer