See also: 1717 in music, other events of 1718, 1719 in music, list of years in music.

Contents

1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Opera 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• Antonio Vivaldi tours Italy.
• Handel succeeds Johann Christoph Pepusch as Kapellmeister to the Duke of Chandos.
• Johann Joachim Quantz settles in Dresden.

Classical music

• Esther (oratorio) - George Frideric Handel

Opera

• Acis and Galatea - George Frideric Handel
• Scanderbeg - Antonio Vivaldi

Births

• exact date unknown - Carl Heinrich Biber, composer and son of Heinrich Franz Biber

Deaths

• none listed