1715 in music - Definition and Overview

See also: 1714 in music, other events of 1715, 1716 in music, list of years in music.

Events

• Vaudeville is staged for the first time in Paris.

Classical music

• Concerts royaux - François Couperin

Opera

• Il Tigrane - Alessandro Scarlatti
• La Dirindina - Domenico Scarlatti
• Nerone Fatto Cesare - Antonio Vivaldi

Births

• January 12 - Jacques Duphly, composer
• January 15 - Georg Wagenzeil, pianist and composer
• January 27 - Vaclav Kalous, composer
• March 19 - Charles-Joseph van Helmont, composer
• April 11 - John Alcock, composer
• April 17 - Johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht, composer
• April 19 - James Nares, composer
• April 23 - Johann Friedrich Doles, composer
• April 28 - Franz Sparry, composer
• May 5 - Daniel Dal Barba, composer
• May 11 - Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, organist and son of Johann Sebastian Bach
• June 2 - Herman-François Delange, composer
• November 16 - Girolamo Abos, composer
• December 9 - Georg Gottfried Petri, composer
• December 12 - Gennaro Manna, composer

Deaths

• February 3 - Gottfried Vopelius, composer
• September 2 - Constantin Christian Dedekind, composer