1714 in music

The year 1714 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * March 2 – Johann Sebastian Bach is appointed Konzertmeister at Weimar, having declined a post at Halle.
 * A school of dance opens at the Paris Opera.
 * Michel Richard Delalande assumes full control of the French royal chapel upon the retirement of his last co-sous maîtres.
 * Francesco Geminiani arrives in London, where he obtains the patronage of William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex.
 * Melchior Hoffmann, composer, marries Margaretha Elisabeth Philipp; he is already suffering from a terminal illness.
 * Domenico Scarlatti becomes maestro di cappella at the Cappella Giulia in the Vatican.
 * Francesco Maria Veracini visits London and performs at the Queen's Theatre.
 * The first permanent church organ in the United States, the Brattle organ, imported by Thomas Brattle, is installed in Boston at King's Chapel.
 * John Tufts publishes the first instructional book for singing in the USA.
 * Gottfried Silbermann completes the new organ for Freiberg Cathedral.

Classical music

 * Pirro Capacelli Conte Albergati – Cantate et oratorii spirituali, Op. 10
 * William Babell – Prelude in G major from the Frontispiece
 * Johann Sebastian Bach
 * Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12 (movement 2 would later form the Crucifixus movement of his Mass in B minor)
 * Widerstehe doch der Sünde, BWV 54
 * Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV Anh. 55
 * Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61
 * Christen, ätzet diesen Tag, BWV 63
 * Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn, BWV 152
 * Erschallet, ihr Lieder, BWV 172
 * Himmelskönig, sei willkommen, BWV 182
 * Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199
 * Kleines harmonisches Labyrinth, BWV 591 (Now attributed to Johann David Heinichen)
 * Organ Concerto in E-flat major, BWV 597
 * The Little Organ Book
 * Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland, BWV 599
 * Gott, durch deine Güte, BWV 600
 * Lob sei dem allmächtigen Gott, BWV 602
 * Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 604
 * Vom Himmel kam der Engel Schaar, BWV 607
 * Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten, BWV 642
 * Alle Menschen müssen sterben, BWV 643
 * Toccata in C minor, BWV 911
 * Toccata in G major, BWV 916
 * Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, BWV 944
 * Aria variata in A minor, BWV 989
 * Violin Sonata in E minor, BWV 1023
 * Antonio Caldara – Laboravi in gemitu meo
 * André Campra – Enée et Didon
 * Giovanni Maria Casini – Pensieri per Organo
 * Arcangelo Corelli
 * Christmas Concerto
 * Twelve concerti grossi, Op. 6, published posthumously
 * François Couperin – Leçons de ténèbres
 * Henri Desmarets – Grands Motets
 * Christoph Graupner – Mir hat die Welt trüglich gericht, GWV 1103/14
 * George Frideric Handel – Te Deum in D major, HWV 278
 * Johann Ernst Prinz von Sachsen-Weimar – Violin Concerto in G major
 * Reinhard Keiser – Musicalische Land-Lust
 * Jean-Baptiste Loeillet – 12 Recorder Sonatas, Op. 2
 * Johann Mattheson – Harmonisches Denckmahl (12 Harpsichord suites)
 * Santiago de Murcia – Resumen de acompañar la parte con la guitarra
 * James Paisible – The Godolphin. Mr. Isaac's new dance, made for Her Majesty's Birth Day, 1714...
 * André Raison – Deuxième livre d'orgue
 * Jean-Féry Rebel – Les caractères de la danse
 * Alessandro Scarlatti – S. Filippo Neri (oratorio)
 * Jean-Baptiste Stuck – Héraclite et Démocrite
 * Franz Mathias Techelmann – Toccate, Canzoni, Ricercari et altre Galanterie
 * Georg Philipp Telemann – Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, TWV 1:1175
 * Giuseppe Valentini – 12 Allettamenti da Camera, Op. 8

Opera

 * Leonardo Leo – Pisistrato
 * Jean-Baptiste Matho – Arion (tragédie en musique)
 * Jean-Joseph Mouret
 * Les Amours de Ragonde
 * Les Fêtes ou Le Triomphe de Thalie
 * Nicola Porpora – Arianna e Teseo
 * Alessandro Scarlatti – L’amor generoso
 * Antonio Vivaldi – Orlando finto pazzo, RV 727

Births

 * January 1 – Giovanni Battista Mancini, soprano castrato, voice teacher (died 1800)
 * February – Susannah Maria Cibber, singer and actress, daughter of Thomas Arne (died 1766)
 * February 2 – Gottfried August Homilius, composer, cantor and organist (died 1785)
 * February 28 – Gioacchino Conti, soprano castrato opera singer (died 1761)
 * March 8 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (died 1788)
 * April 16 – Pedro António Avondano, Portuguese composer
 * May 6 – Anton Raaff, tenor (died 1797)
 * May 12 – Johan Daniel Berlin composer (died 1787)
 * July 2 – Christoph Willibald Gluck (died 1787)
 * September 10 – Niccolò Jommelli, composer (died 1774)
 * December 23 – Ranieri de' Calzabigi, librettist collaborating with Gluck (died 1795)
 * date unknown
 * Antonio Besozzi, Italian oboist and composer (died 1781)
 * Abade António da Costa, Portuguese composer (died 1780)
 * Johan Foltmar, composer (died 1794)
 * Christian Gottlob Hubert, builder of keyboard instruments (died 1793)
 * Edmund Pascha, organist and composer (died 1772)
 * probable – Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi, luthier (died 1771)

Deaths

 * January 4 – Atto Melani, opera singer (born 1626)
 * April 17 – Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer (born 1657)
 * August 25 – Johann Georg Kühnhausen, composer (date of birth unknown)
 * September 3 – Pietro Antonio Fiocco, composer (born 1654)
 * November 13 – Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, organist (born 1632)
 * date unknown – Benito Bello de Torices, Spanish composer, maestro at the Convent of Las Descalzas Reales (born c.1660)