1702 in music

The year 1702 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * 13 March – A month after commencing his university education, 17-year-old George Frideric Handel accepts the position of organist at Halle Cathedral, replacing J. C. Leporin, for whom he had acted as assistant.
 * Johann Sebastian Bach concludes his musical education at St. Michael's School in Lüneburg.
 * Georg Philipp Telemann becomes director of Leipzig opera, and founds Leipzig Collegium Musicum.
 * Alessandro Scarlatti leaves Naples and seeks the patronage of Prince Ferdinando de' Medici.
 * Michel de Saint-Lambert publishes Les principes du clavecin.
 * Probable year – German Baroque composer Jakob Greber moves from Italy to London – accompanied by his mistress, operatic soprano Margherita de L'Épine – where he will remain for three years composing incidental music for plays and arias for L'Épine, including those for this year's première of Nicholas Rowe's play The Fair Penitent.

Published popular music

 * Tavern Bilkers, burlesque by John Weaver

Classical music

 * Giovanni Henrico Albicastro – Sonate a violino solo col basso continuo
 * Tomaso Albinoni
 * Lontananza crudel, mi squarci il core, T.204.04 (Op. 4)
 * Poiché al vago seren di due pupille, T.205
 * Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns – St John Passion (formerly attributed to Reinhard Keiser)
 * Marc-Antoine Charpentier
 * Extremum Dei judicium, H.401
 * Judicium Salomonis, performed for the opening of the French parliament
 * François Couperin
 * Quatre versets d'un motet composé et chanté par ordre du roy
 * Qui dat nivem sicut lanam
 * Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
 * Ariadne musica
 * Tafelmusik
 * Louis Marchand – Pièces de clavecin, Livre 1
 * James Paisible
 * 6 Sonatas of Two Parts
 * Airs for the play King Edward the Third
 * Airs for the comedy She Would and She Would Not
 * Alessandro Scarlatti – Mottetti sacri ad una, due, trè, e quattro voci con violini
 * Francesco Scarlatti – Dixit dominus (Psalm 110)
 * Johannes Schenck – Le nymphe di Rheno, 12 sonatas and suites for 2 violas da gamba, Op. 8 (Amsterdam)
 * Johann Speth – Ars Magna Consoni et Dissoni
 * Francisco Valls – Missa Scala Aretina
 * Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow – Danksaget dem Vater

Opera

 * François Bouvard – Médus
 * André Campra – Tancrède
 * Pietro Torri – Torneo

Births

 * January 6 – José de Nebra, composer (died 1768)
 * February 7 – Carl August Thielo, composer (died 1763)
 * February 27 – Johann Valentin Görner, composer (died 1762)
 * March 5 – Michael Mietke II, German harpsichord maker (died 1754)
 * March 13 – Burkat Shudi, Swiss-born harpsichord maker (died 1773)
 * March 27 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer (died 1762)
 * July 22 – Alessandro Besozzi, oboist and composer (died 1793)

Deaths

 * July 6 – Nicolas Lebègue, French harpsichordist, composer and organist (born 1632)
 * July 16 – Étienne Loulié, musician, pedagogue and musical theorist (born 1654)
 * September 17 – Olaus Rudbeck, composer (born 1630)
 * December – José de Cascante, organist and composer (born 1646)