1720 in music - Definition

See also: 1719 in music, other events of 1720, 1721 in music, list of years in music.

Events

• Royal Academy of Music opens in London.
• Domenico Scarlatti arrives in Lisbon.

Classical music

Opera

• Tito Manilo - Antonio Vivaldi
• Radamisto - George Frideric Handel

Births

• January 4 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, composer
• November 16 - Carlo Antonio Campioni, composer
• exact date unknown - Maria Teresa d'Agnesi, singer and composer
• probable - Bernhard Joachim Hagen, composer

Deaths

• July 27 - Johann Samuel Welter, composer
• exact date unknown - Maria Barbara, first wife of Johann Sebastian Bach