1715 in music

The year 1715 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * September – Presumed staging of first Three Choirs Festival in England.
 * Comédie en vaudeville is staged for the first time in Paris.
 * Francesco Geminiani performs at the court of King George I of Great Britain, accompanied by Handel.

Classical music

 * Tomaso Albinoni – 12 Concerti a cinque, Op. 7
 * Johann Sebastian Bach
 * Der Himmel lacht! die Erde jubiliert, BWV 31
 * Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn, BWV 132
 * Nur jedem das Seine, BWV 163
 * Ach! ich sehe, itzt, da ich zur Hochzeit gehe, BWV 162
 * O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad, BWV 165
 * Barmherziges Herze der ewigen Liebe, BWV 185
 * Valet will ich dir geben, BWV 736
 * English Suites (speculated year of composition) BWV 806–811
 * Suite in F minor, BWV 823
 * Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 894
 * Fugue in A major, BWV 949
 * Francesco Antonio Bonporti – Concerti a quattro, Op. 11
 * Antonio Caldara – Motetti a due e tre voci, Op. 4
 * François Couperin Concerts royaux
 * George Frideric Handel
 * Brockes-Passion, HWV 48
 * Concerto Grosso in B-flat major, HWV 313
 * Concerto Grosso in D minor, HWV 316
 * Concerto Grosso in D major, HWV 317
 * Jacques Hotteterre – Pièces pour la flûte traversiere, Op. 5
 * Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre – Cantates Françoises, Livre 3
 * Jean-Baptiste Loeillet – 12 Recorder Sonatas, Op. 3
 * Alessandro Marcello – Oboe Concerto in D minor, S.Z799
 * Gaetano Meneghetti – Violin Concerto in A major
 * James Paisible – The Friendship, Mr. Isaac's new dance for the year 1715...
 * Jean-Philippe Rameau – Thétis, RCT 28
 * Johann Ernst Prinz von Sachsen-Weimar – Violin Concerto in G major
 * Alessandro Scarlatti
 * Sinfonie di concerto grosso
 * Stabat Mater.
 * Johann Christian Schickhardt – 6 Concertos for 4 Recorders and Continuo, Op. 19
 * Georg Philipp Telemann
 * 6 Sonates à violon seul accompagné par le clavessin
 * Sonata à 4, TWV 43:a5
 * Carlo Tessarini – 12 Concerti a cinque, Op. 1
 * Antonio Vivaldi
 * Violin Concerto in A major, RV 345
 * Violin Concerto in B-flat major, RV 363
 * John Walsh (pub.) – The Bird Fancyer's Delight
 * Jan Dismas Zelenka – Capriccio in D major, ZWV 182

Opera

 * Giovanni Bononcini – Astarto
 * George Frideric Handel – Amadigi di Gaula
 * Johann Augustin Kobelius – Der unschuldig verdammte Heinrich, Fürst von Wallis
 * Giuseppe Maria Orlandini – Bacocco e Serpilla
 * Alessandro Scarlatti – Il Tigrane
 * Domenico Scarlatti – La Dirindina
 * Antonio Vivaldi – Nerone Fatto Cesare

Births

 * January 12 – Jacques Duphly, composer (died 1789)
 * January 29 – Georg Christoph Wagenseil, composer (died 1777)
 * April 11 – John Alcock, composer
 * April 19 – James Nares, composer (died 1783)
 * April 23 – Johann Friedrich Doles, composer (died 1797)
 * April 28 – Franz Sparry, composer (died 1767)
 * May 11
 * Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, organist and son of Johann Sebastian Bach (died 1739)
 * Ignazio Fiorillo, composer (died 1787)
 * November 10 – Johann August Landvoigt, librettist and musician (died 1766)
 * November 16 – Girolamo Abos, composer (died 1760)
 * December – Isabella Lampe, soprano and wife of John Frederick Lampe (died 1795)
 * December 12 – Gennaro Manna, composer (died 1779)
 * date unknown
 * Giovanni Battista Casali, musician (died 1792)
 * William Felton – (died 1769)
 * Francesco Zoppis, composer (died after 1781)

Deaths

 * January 15 – Caspar Neumann, hymnist (born 1648)
 * January 22 – Marc'Antonio Ziani, composer (born c.1653)
 * February 3 – Gottfried Vopelius, composer
 * July 30 – Nahum Tate, hymn-writer and lyricist (born 1652)
 * September 2 – Constantin Christian Dedekind, composer
 * September 6 – Basilius Petritz, German composer and Kreuzkantor in Dresden (born 1647)
 * October 6 – Melchior Hoffmann, composer
 * date unknown
 * Antonio de Salazar, composer (born c.1650)
 * Diego Xaraba, Spanish organist and composer (born 1652)
 * probable
 * Daniel Eberlin, composer (born 1647)
 * Vasily Polikarpovich Titov, Russian composer