1710 in music

The year 1710 in music involved some significant musical events and new works.

Events

 * April 18 – Probable date of the première of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Mark Passion pastiche at the chapel of Wilhelmsburg Castle (two movements by Bach).
 * In Britain, the Academy of Vocal Music is founded by Johann Christoph Pepusch and others.

Published popular music

 * Collier, John Payne (ed.). A Book of Roxburghe Ballads (containing 1,341 broadside ballads, including "Fare Thee Well")

Classical music

 * Louis-Nicolas Clérambault
 * Cantates françoises, Book 1
 * Premier livre d'orgue contenant deux suites
 * Georg Frideric Handel – incidental music for The Alchemist
 * Michel de la Barre – Pièces pour la flûte traversière, Livre 1
 * Jean Baptiste Loeillet of Ghent – 12 Recorder Sonatas, Op. 1
 * Johann Pachelbel – Magnificat Fugue, P.268
 * James Paisible – The Royall Galliarde. Mr. Isaac's new dance, made for Her Majesty's Birth Day, 1710...
 * Johann Christoph Pepusch – 6 English Cantatas, Book 1
 * Johann Schenk – L'écho du Danube, Op .9
 * Johann Christian Schickhardt
 * 7 Recorder Sonatas, Op. 1
 * 6 Oboe Sonatas, Op. 8
 * 6 Sonatas à 4, Op. 14
 * Jean Baptiste Senaillé – 10 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1
 * Giuseppe Valentini – Concerto a Quattro Violini (12 concerti grossi), Op. 7 (Rome)

Opera

 * Floriano Arresti – L'enigma disciolta
 * Antonio Maria Bononcini – Tigrane, re d'Armenia
 * André Campra – Les Fêtes vénitiennes
 * Pietro Paolo Laurenti – Sabella mrosa d'Truvlin
 * Johann Mattheson – Boris Goudenow

Births

 * January 4 – Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, composer, violinist and organist (died 1736)
 * March 12 – Thomas Arne, composer (died 1778)
 * March 27 – Joseph Abaco, violoncellist and composer (died 1805)
 * April 12 – Caffarelli, castrato singer (died 1783)
 * November 22 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach (died 1784)
 * date unknown
 * James Oswald, composer and music publisher (died 1769)
 * Giovanni Battista Ferrandini, composer (died 1791)
 * Thomas Gladwin, organist and composer (died 1799)
 * Anton Joseph Hampel, horn player (died 1771)
 * George Alexander Stevens, actor, poet and songwriter (died 1780)

Deaths

 * May 10 – Georg Dietrich Leyding, organist and composer (born 1664)
 * June 14 – Johann Friedrich Alberti, German composer and organist (born 1642)
 * July 8 – Juan García de Salazar, choral composer (b. 1639)
 * September 26 – Cardinal Vincenzo Grimani, opera librettist
 * November 22 – Bernardo Pasquini, composer (born 1637)
 * date unknown
 * Charles Mouton, composer and lutenist (born c. 1626)
 * Gaspar Sanz, priest and composer (born 1640)
 * probable
 * Rosa Giacinta Badalla, Benedictine nun and composer (born c.1660)
 * Marcus Meibomius, historian of music (born c. 1630)
 * Camilla de Rossi, composer