1704 in music

The year 1704 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * Johann Christoph Pepusch arrives in London.
 * Following her husband's death, Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre begins hosting concerts in her home.
 * Antonio Vivaldi becomes general superintendent of music at the Ospedale della Pietà, Venice.
 * Johann Jacob Bach becomes an oboist in the army of King Charles XII of Sweden, inspiring Johann Sebastian to write a Capriccio on the Absence of His Most Beloved Brother.
 * During a performance of Johann Mattheson's opera, Cleopatra, the composer almost kills his friend, Georg Frideric Handel, in a violent quarrel.

Classical music

 * Henricus Albicastro – [12] Concerti, Op.7
 * Attilo Ariosti – La madre dei Maccabei
 * Johann Sebastian Bach
 * Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150 (or 1707)
 * Toccata and Fugue D Minor BWV 565 (poss.)
 * Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BWV 742
 * Sonata in D major, BWV 963
 * Capriccio in B-flat major, BWV 992
 * Antonio Caldara – Il trionfo dell'innocenza (Second edition)
 * Louis-Nicolas Clérambault – Livre de pièces de clavecin
 * François Couperin – 7 Versets du motet composé de l'ordre du roy, 1704
 * William Croft – 6 Sonatas of Two Parts
 * Michel Richard Delalande – Dominus regnavit, S.65
 * George Frideric Handel – Oboe Concerto in G minor, HWV 287


 * Reinhard Keiser – Der blutige und sterbende Jesus (by Christian Friedrich Hunold)
 * Michele Mascitti – [12] Sonate, Op.1
 * Jean-Baptiste Morin – Motets à une et deux voix, Livre I
 * James Paisible – Musick perform'd before Her Majesty and the new King of Spain
 * Alessandro Scarlatti
 * Perdono, Amor, perdono, H.554
 * S. Casimiro, re di Pononia
 * Johann Schenck – 2 Sonatas for 2 Viols
 * Giovanni Battista Tibaldi – 12 Trio Sonatas, Op.2

Opera

 * Attilo Ariosti – I gloriosi presagi di Scipione Africano
 * Giovanni Bononcini
 * Il fiore delle eroine
 * Il ritorno di Giulio Cesare
 * Francesco Bartolomeo Conti – Alba Cornelia
 * Johann Mattheson – Die unglückselige Cleopatra
 * Carlo Francesco Pollarolo – Irene (revised by Domenico Scarlatti for performance at Naples).

Births

 * May 7 – Carl Heinrich Graun, composer and singer (died 1759)
 * June 11 – Carlos Seixas, composer (died 1742)
 * October 2 – František Tůma, organist and composer (died 1774)
 * December 31 – Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, organist (died 1761)
 * probable – Claude Parisot, organ builder (died 1784)

Deaths

 * February 7 – Lady Mary Dering, composer (born 1629)
 * February 23 – Georg Muffat, composer (born 1653)
 * February 24 – Marc-Antoine Charpentier, composer (born 1643)
 * February 25 – Isabella Leonarda, composer of church music (born 1620)
 * April – Georg Christoph Strattner, friend and colleague of Bach at Lüneburg (born c. 1644)
 * May 3 – Heinrich Ignaz Biber, violinist and composer (born 1644)
 * September 6 – Francesco Provenzale, composer (born 1624)
 * November 2 – Johann Jakob Walther, violinist and composer (born 1650)
 * November 16 – Chikka Devaraja, ruler of Mysore, composer and music theorist (born 1673)
 * December 14
 * Selim I Giray, Crimean khan, also known as a poet and musician (born 1631)
 * Joseph-François Duché de Vancy, librettist (born 1668)