1712 in music

The year 1712 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * March 18 – Georg Philipp Telemann arrives in Frankfurt to take up his new post as city director of music and Kapellmeister at the Barfüsserkirche.
 * March 25 – Approximate date of the première of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Mark Passion pastiche at the chapel of Wilhelmsburg Castle (two movements by Bach).
 * September – George Frideric Handel re-locates to London, with the permission of his patron, the future King George I of Great Britain.
 * Johann Georg Pisendel joins the court orchestra at Dresden.

Classical music

 * Tomaso Albinoni – 12 Trattenimenti armonici, Op. 6
 * Johann Sebastian Bach
 * Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 541
 * Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major, BWV 564
 * Fantasia in G major, BWV 572
 * Toccata in F-sharp minor, BWV 910
 * Fugue in B minor, BWV 951
 * Fughetta in C minor, BWV 961
 * Suite in E minor for lute, BWV 996
 * Francesco Antonio Bonporti – 10 Inventions, Op. 10
 * Pieter Bustijn – 9 Suittes pour le clavessin
 * Henry Carey – Setting of "The Lord My Pasture Shall Prepare" (hymn) by Joseph Addison
 * Arcangelo Corelli – Twelve Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 (composed)
 * Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco
 * Concerti a quattro da chiesa, Op. 2
 * 12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 3
 * Christoph Graupner
 * Jesus ist und bleibt mein Leben, GWV 1107/12
 * Mein Gott, warum hast du mich verlassen?, GWV 1118/12a
 * Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, GWV 1143/12
 * Demütiget euch nun, GWV 1144/12
 * Zähle meine Flucht, GWV 1154/12b
 * Wer da glaubet dass Jesus sei der Christ, GWV 1171/12
 * George Frideric Handel – O Sing unto the Lord a New Song, HWV 249a
 * Jacques-Martin Hotteterre
 * Sonates en trio pour les flûtes traversières et a bec, violon, hautbois, Op. 3
 * Suite in B minor, Op. 4
 * Reinhard Keiser – Brockes-Passion (Text by Barthold Heinrich Brockes)
 * Ferdinando Antonio Lazzari – Concerto in D major
 * John Loeillet – Lessons for the Harpsichord or Spinet
 * Benedetto Marcello – 12 Recorder Sonatas, Op. 2
 * Jean-Baptiste Morin – Cantates françoises à une et trois voix, Op. 6
 * James Paisible – The Gloucester. Mr. Isaac's new dance, made for Her Majesty's Birth Day...
 * Anne Danican Philidor – Premier livre de pièces
 * Giovanni Antonion Piani – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1
 * Charles Piroye – Pièces d'orgue
 * Jean-Féry Rebel – Boutade
 * Georg Philipp Telemann
 * Das ist meine Freude, TWV 8:17
 * Ouverture-Suite, TWV 55:A5 (approx.)
 * Francesco Maria Veracini – Il trionfo della innocenza patrocinata da S. NiccoI (oratorio)
 * Antonio Vivaldi – Violin Concerto in D major, RV 212
 * Johann Gottfried Walther – Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht
 * Jan Dismas Zelenka – Attendite et videte, ZWV 59

Opera

 * André Campra – Idomenée
 * André Cardinal Destouches – Callirhoé
 * George Frideric Handel
 * Il Pastor Fido
 * Teseo, HWV 9 (composed)
 * John Hughes (1677–1720) and Johann Ernst Galliard (d. 1747) – Calypso and Telemachus (opera)
 * Antonio Lotti – Porsenna

Births

 * January
 * David Owen, harpist (died 1741)
 * Cecilia Young, soprano, wife of Thomas Arne (died 1789)
 * January 17 – John Stanley, composer and organist (died 1786)
 * January 24 – Frederick II of Prussia, enthusiastic amateur musician and composer (died 1786)
 * January 26 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer and head of a musical dynasty (died 1781)
 * June 28 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, polymath (died 1778)
 * July – John Hebden, musician and composer (died 1765)
 * date unknown
 * Marimutthu Pillai, Carnatic music composer (died 1787)
 * John Christopher Smith, composer (died 1795)
 * Sophia Schröder, vocalist at the Kungliga Hovkapellet (died 1750)
 * probable – Kane O'Hara, playwright and musician (died 1782)

Deaths

 * April – Lambert Chaumont, organist and composer (born c.1630)
 * April 29 – Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer
 * August 7 – Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau, organist at Halle (born 1663)
 * August 26 – Sebastian Anton Scherer, composer (born 1631)
 * September 30 – Johann Michael Zächer, composer (born 1649)
 * November 6 – Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer (born 1654)
 * date unknown
 * Buhurizade Mustafa Itri, composer and performer of Turkish classical music (born c.1640)
 * Juan de Araujo, Spanish composer active in South and Central America (born 1646)
 * Carlo Alessandro Guidi, poet and songwriter (born 1650)
 * probable – Carlo Ambrogio Lonati, violinist, composer and singer