1700 in music

The year 1700 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * John Eccles is appointed Master of the King's Musick.
 * William Croft returns to the Chapel Royal, where he had been educated, as a "gentleman organist".
 * William Corbett becomes director of the New Theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields.
 * Johann Sebastian Bach becomes a chorister at St. Michael's Church, Lüneburg.
 * Tomaso Albinoni is employed as a violinist by Fernando Carlo, Duke of Mantua.
 * An inventory of musical instruments kept by Prince Ferdinando de Medici provides the first evidence for the existence of the pianoforte.

Classical music

 * Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni – Sinfonie e concerti op. 2
 * Johann Sebastian Bach
 * Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 549a
 * Christ, der du bist der helle Tag, BWV 766
 * John Blow – Amphion Anglicus
 * Jacques Boyvin – Livre d'orgue II
 * Sébastien de Brossard – O miraculum!, SdB.006
 * Antonio Caldara
 * La frode della castità
 * Il trionfo dell'innocenza
 * Choice Collection of Ayres for the Harpsichord or Spinnet by John Blow, Jeremiah Clarke, Francis Piggott, John Barrett and William Croft
 * Jeremiah Clarke – Prince of Denmark's March (approximate date)
 * Arcangelo Corelli – XII Suonati a violino e violone o cimbalo (Op. 5), published in Rome
 * John Eccles – The Mad Lover
 * Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer – Musicalischer Parnassus
 * Godfrey Keller
 * The Royal Trumpett-Suite
 * 8 Trio Sonatas
 * Johann Kuhnau – Musicalische Vorstellung einiger biblischer Historien (Biblical sonatas), published in Leipzig
 * Johann Sigismund Kusser
 * 6 Overture Suites 'Apollon Enjoué'
 * 6 Overture Suites 'Festin des Muses'
 * Isabella Leonarda – Motetti a voce sola con istromenti, Op.20
 * Alessandro Scarlatti – Il rosignolo se scioglie il volo, H.318

Opera

 * Carlo Agostino Badia – La costanza d'Ulisse
 * André Campra – Hésione
 * John Eccles – The Judgment of Paris
 * Alessandro Scarlatti – Eracles

Publications

 * Jacques Boyvin – Traité abrégé de l'accompagnement
 * Johann Kuhnau – Der musicalische Quack-Salber
 * Friedrich Erhardt Niedt – Musicalische Handleitung

Births

 * January 14 – Picander, librettist for Johann Sebastian Bach (died 1764)
 * March 13 – Michel Blavet, flautist (died 1768)
 * April 2 – Francesca Cuzzoni, opera singer (died 1770)
 * probable
 * Sebastian Bodinus, composer (d. 1759)
 * Jean-Baptiste Masse, cellist and composer (died c.1757)

Deaths

 * January 16 – Antonio Draghi, opera composer (born c.1634)
 * February 8 – Filippo Acciaiuoli, opera composer, librettist and manager (born 1637)
 * June 6 – Wespazjan Kochowski, historian, poet and writer (born 1633)
 * probable
 * August Kühnel, viola da gamba player and composer (b. 1645)
 * Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, violist and composer (born c.1640)