1712 in music
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- George Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...
re-locates to London. - Johann Georg PisendelJohann Georg PisendelJohann Georg Pisendel was a German Baroque musician, violinist and composer who, for many years, led the Court Orchestra in Dresden, then the finest instrumental ensemble in Europe.-Biography:...
joins the court orchestra at DresdenDresdenDresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....
. - March 25 Possible premiere of Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
's St Mark Passion pasticheSt Mark Passion pasticheIn 1754, the musician and theorist Lorenz Christoph Mizler published as an addendum in the most recent volume of his Neu eröffnete musikalische Bibliothek a series of three obituaries of recently deceased members of his Korrespondierende Sozietät der Musicalischen Wissenschaften...
at the chapel of Wilhelmsburg Castle (two movements by Bach).
Classical music
- Francesco Antonio BonportiFrancesco Antonio BonportiFrancesco Antonio Bonporti was an Italian priest and amateur composer.He was born in Trento. In 1691, he was admitted in the Collegium Germanicum in Rome, where he studied theology...
– Opus X for violin - Henry CareyHenry CareyHenry Carey may refer to:*Henry Charles Carey , American economist*Henry Carey , dramatist and songwriter*Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon , politician, general and potential illegitimate son of Henry VIII of England*Henry Carey, 1st Earl of Dover Henry Carey may refer to:*Henry Charles Carey...
– Setting of "The Lord My Pasture Shall Prepare" (hymn) by Joseph AddisonJoseph AddisonJoseph Addison was an English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. He was a man of letters, eldest son of Lancelot Addison... - Benedetto MarcelloBenedetto MarcelloBenedetto Marcello was a Venetian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher.-Life:...
– Sonatas for Recorder and Basso Continuo - Francesco Maria VeraciniFrancesco Maria Veracinithumb|150px|Francesco Maria Veracini.Francesco Maria Veracini was an Italian composer and violinist, perhaps best known for his sets of violin sonatas.-Life:Francesco Maria Veracini led a turbulent life...
– Il trionfo della innocenza patrocinata da S. NiccoI (oratorio)
Opera
- André CampraAndré CampraAndré Campra was a French composer and conductor.Campra was one of the leading French opera composers in the period between Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Philippe Rameau. He wrote several tragédies en musique, but his chief claim to fame is as the creator of a new genre, opéra-ballet...
– Idomenée - George Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...
– Il Pastor FidoIl pastor fidoIl pastor fido is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel. It was set to a libretto by Giacomo Rossi based on the famed and widely familiar pastoral poem of the same name by Giovanni Battista Guarini.-Performance history:... - John Hughes (1677-1720) and Johann Ernst GalliardJohann Ernst GalliardJohann Ernst Galliard was a German composer.Galliard was born in Celle, Germany to a French wig-maker. His first composition instruction began at age 15. Galliard studied composition under Farinelli, the director of music at the Court of Hanover, and Abbate Steffani. In addition to his composition...
(d. 1747) – Calypso and Telemachus (opera) - Antonio LottiAntonio LottiAntonio Lotti was an Italian composer of classical music.Lotti was born in Venice, although his father Matteo was Kapellmeister at Hanover at the time. In 1682, Lotti began studying with Lodovico Fuga and Giovanni Legrenzi, both of whom were employed at St Mark's Basilica, Venice's principal church...
– Porsenna
Births
- January
- David OwenDavid Owen (harpist)David Owen was a Welsh harpist, best remembered as the composer of the popular song, "Dafydd y Garreg Wen"...
, harpist (died 1741) - Cecilia YoungCecilia YoungCecilia Young was one of the greatest English sopranos of the eighteenth century, the wife of composer Thomas Arne, and the mother of composer Michael Arne...
, soprano, wife of Thomas Arne (died 1789)
- David Owen
- January 17 – John StanleyJohn Stanley (composer)Charles John Stanley was an English composer and organist.-Biography:Stanley, who was blind from an early age, studied music with Maurice Greene and held a number of organist appointments in London, such as St Andrew's, Holborn from 1726...
, composer and organist (died 1786) - January 24 – Frederick II of PrussiaFrederick II of PrussiaFrederick II was a King in Prussia and a King of Prussia from the Hohenzollern dynasty. In his role as a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire, he was also Elector of Brandenburg. He was in personal union the sovereign prince of the Principality of Neuchâtel...
, enthusiastic amateur musician and composer (died 1786) - March 13 – Isfrid Kayser, composer
- June 28 – Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological and educational thought.His novel Émile: or, On Education is a treatise...
, polymath (died 1778) - July – John HebdenJohn HebdenJohn Hebden was a composer and musician in 18th century Great Britain.Little is known of Hebden's life. He was baptized on 21 July 1712 at Spofforth, near Harrogate in Yorkshire, the son of 'John Hebdin' of Plompton. He was orphaned when young but was fortunate enough to receive an excellent...
, musician and composer (died 1765) - December 1 – Bernhard Christian Weber
- date unknown – John Christopher SmithJohn Christopher SmithJohn Christopher Smith [Johann Christoph Schmidt] was an English composer who, following in his father's footsteps, became George Frederic Handel's secretary and amanuensis.-Life:...
, composer (died 1795) - date unknown - Sophia SchröderSophia SchröderSophia Schröder was a Swedish soprano , active as a concert vocalist at the royal orchestra, the Kungliga Hovkapellet, at the royal Swedish court, the first woman to have been officially given such a position.Sophia Schröder was born in Stockholm to German immigrants...
, vocalist at the Kungliga HovkapelletKungliga HovkapelletKungliga Hovkapellet , is a Swedish orchestra and was located at the Royal Court in Sweden's capital Stockholm. It was first recorded in 1526. Since 1773 it is part of the Royal Swedish Opera's company....
(died 1750)
Deaths
- April – Lambert ChaumontLambert ChaumontLambert Chaumont was a Flemish Baroque composer and organist.Chaumont was from the Liège area, possibly born in that city. The earliest mention of his name dates from January 1649, when he is listed as a lay brother at the Carmelite monastery at Liège...
, organist and composer (born c.1630) - April 29 – Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer
- August 4 – Johann Jacob de Neufville, composer
- August 7 – Friedrich Wilhelm ZachauFriedrich Wilhelm ZachauFriedrich Wilhelm Zachow or Zachau was a German musician and composer.-Life:Zachow probably received his training from his father, the violinist Heinrich Zachow, one of Leipzig's town musicians. as organist of Halle's Church of Our Lady in 1684, succeeding Samuel Ebart...
, organist at HalleHalle, Saxony-AnhaltHalle is the largest city in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is also called Halle an der Saale in order to distinguish it from the town of Halle in North Rhine-Westphalia...
(born 1663) - August 24 – Thomas Bullis, composer
- August 26 – Sebastian Anton SchererSebastian Anton SchererSebastian Anton Scherer was a German composer and organist of the Baroque era.Scherer was born in Ulm, where he resided until his death. On 17 June 1653 he was elected town musician, and it was also around that time that he became assistant to Tobias Eberlin, then organist of the famous Ulm...
, composer - September 30 – Johann Michael Zacher, composer
- November 6 – Johann Bernhard StaudtJohann Bernhard StaudtJohann Bernhard Staudt was an Austrian Jesuit composer.Staudt was born in Vienna. His best-known work is the 1685 chamber opera Patientis Christi Memoria , which takes place at Jesus' tomb before the Resurrection...
, composer (born 1654) - date unknown – Carlo Alessandro GuidiCarlo Alessandro GuidiCarlo Alessandro Guidi , Italian lyric poet, was born at Pavia.As chief founder of the well-known Roman academy called "L'Arcadia," he had a considerable share in the reform of Italian poetry, corrupted at that time by the extravagance and bad taste of the poets Giambattista Marini and Giovanni...
, poet and songwriter (born 1650)