1709 in music

The year 1709 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * Johann Georg Pisendel leaves his post in the court orchestra of Ansbach to travel to Leipzig, meeting Johann Sebastian Bach en route.
 * Antonio Stradivari makes the Viotti Stradivarius.

Published popular music

 * "Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre"

Classical music

 * William Babell – The Third Book of the Ladys Entertainment
 * Johann Sebastian Bach
 * Alla breve in D major, BWV 589
 * Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 895
 * Fugue in A major on a Theme by Tomaso Albinoni, BWV 950 (approximate date)
 * Giovanni Battista Bassani – Acroama missale
 * Antonio Maria Bononcini – La decollazione di S. Giovanni Batista
 * Juan Cabanilles – Flores de Música
 * Antonio Caldara – Il nome più glorioso
 * Louis-Antoine Dornel – Livre de simphonies contenant six suites en trio avec une sonate en quatuor, Op. 1
 * Francesco Nicola Fago – Il Faraone Sommerso
 * Francesco Gasparini – L'Oracolo del Fato
 * Christoph Graupner
 * Die Krankheit so mich drückt, GWV 1155/09b
 * Siehe selig ist der Mensch, GWV 1162/09
 * Diese Zeit ist ein Spiel der Eitelkeit, GWV 1165/09
 * (see List of cantatas by Christoph Graupner)
 * George Frideric Handel
 * Irene, idolo mio, HWV 120b
 * Lungi da me, pensier tiranno, HWV 125b
 * Lungi da voi, che siete poli, HWV 126c
 * Mi palpita il cor, HWV 132
 * Pensieri notturni di Filli, HWV 134
 * Solitudini care, amata libertà, HWV 163
 * Francesco Onofrio Manfredini – 12 Sinfonie da chiesa, Op.2
 * Michel Montéclair – Cantata: La Mort de Didon
 * Jacques Morel (composer) – Pièces de violle, Livre 1
 * James Paisible - The Royal Portuguez. Mr. Isaac's new dance made for Her Majesty's Birthday 1709...
 * Johann Christoph Pepusch – 6 Recorder Sonatas, Op.2a
 * Giovanni Battista Reali – 10 Trio Sonatas, Op.1
 * Agostino Steffani – Amor vien dal destino (Il turno)
 * Giuseppe Torelli – Concerti Grossi, Op. 8: no 6 in G minor "Christmas Concerto", published posthumously
 * Antonio Vivaldi – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op.2
 * Jan Dismas Zelenka – Immisit Dominus pestilentiam, ZWV 58

Opera

 * Emanuele d'Astorga – Dafne
 * Michele Falco – Lo Lollo pisciaportelle
 * George Frideric Handel – Agrippina HWV 6
 * Marin Marais – Sémélé
 * Giuseppe Maria Orlandini – L'odio e l'amore
 * Agostino Steffani – Tassilone

Births

 * January 1 – Johann Heinrich Hartmann Bätz, organ builder (died 1770)
 * January 24 – Dom Bédos de Celles, Benedictine monk and pipe organ builder (died 1779)
 * February 16 (baptised) – Charles Avison, composer and organist (died 1770)
 * March 27 – William Flackton, viola player and composer (died 1798)
 * April 14 – Charles Collé, songwriter and dramatist (died 1783)
 * June 25 – Francesco Araja, composer (died 1762–1770)
 * August 8 – Hermann Anton Gelinek, monk and musician (died 1779)
 * October 25 – Georg Gebel (the younger), composer (died 1753)
 * November 22 – Franz Benda, violinist and composer (died 1786)
 * December 1 – František Xaver Richter, composer (died 1789)
 * date unknown – Christoph Schaffrath, composer (died 1763)
 * probable – Richard Charke, violinist, composer, operatic baritone, and playwright (died c. 1738)

Deaths

 * February 8 – Giuseppe Torelli, violinist and composer (born 1658)
 * July 17 – Pascal Collasse, composer (baptized 1649)
 * date unknown
 * Cristofaro Caresana, operatic tenor, organist and composer (born c.1640)
 * Giovanni Grancino, luthier (born 1637)