1716 in music

The year 1716 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * July 1 – Domenico Zipoli joins the Society of Jesus. Soon afterwards he is sent on a mission to Paraguay.
 * Georg Philipp Telemann visits Eisenach, resulting in an appointment as visiting Kapellmeister.
 * Antonio Stradivari – completes Le Messie violin (The Messiah Stradivarius)
 * Jonathan Swift conceives the idea for the Beggar's Opera.
 * Giuseppe Tartini hears Francesco Maria Veracini play the violin, and is inspired.

Classical music

 * William Babell – The Fourth Book of the Ladys Entertainment
 * Johann Sebastian Bach
 * Wachet, betet, seid bereit allezeit!, BWV 70a
 * Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147a
 * Mein Gott, wie lang, ach lange, BWV 155
 * Komm, du süsse Todesstunde, BWV 161
 * Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV 186a
 * In dir ist Freude, BWV 615
 * Diogenio Bigaglia – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1
 * Louis-Nicolas Clérambault – Cantates françoises, Book 3
 * François Couperin
 * Second livre de pièces de clavecin
 * L'art de toucher le clavecin
 * Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 4
 * Domenico Elmi – Oboe Concerto in A minor
 * Francesco Geminiani – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1
 * Georgio Gentili – 12 Violin Concertos, Op. 6
 * Christoph Graupner
 * Verleih dass ich aus Herzensgrund, GWV 1114/16
 * Muss ich denn noch ferner leiden, GWV 1145/16
 * Gott ist für uns gestorben, GWV 1152/16
 * George Frideric Handel
 * Concerto Grosso in F major, HWV 315
 * 6 Fugues, HWV 605–610
 * Johann Kuhnau – Wenn ihr fröhlich seid an euren Festen
 * Jean-Baptiste Loeillet – 12 Recorder Sonatas, Op. 4
 * Michel Montéclair – Musette (Les festes de l'été)
 * Giovanni Mossi – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1
 * Alessandro Scarlatti – Ombre tacite e sole
 * Georg Philipp Telemann
 * Concerto for 3 Trumpets, 2 Oboes, Timpani and Strings in D major
 * Brockes Passion, TWV 5:1
 * Germania mit ihrem Chor, TWV 12:1c
 * Kleine Kammermusik
 * Francesco Maria Veracini
 * Six Overtures (first performed, Venice)
 * 12 Sonate a violino o flauto solo e basso (manuscript)
 * Robert di Visée – Pièces de théorbe et de luth
 * Antonio Vivaldi
 * La stravaganza, Op. 4
 * 6 Violin Sonatas, Op. 5
 * 12 Concerti, Op.7
 * Violin Concerto in C major, RV 195
 * Violin Concerto in D major, RV 205
 * Violin Concerto in D minor, RV 245
 * Violin Concerto in F major, RV 292
 * Violin Concerto in G minor, RV 319
 * Violin Concerto in A major, RV 340
 * Violin Concerto in A major, RV 343
 * Gloria in D major, RV 589
 * Juditha Triumphans, RV 644
 * Recorder Sonata in G major, RV 806
 * Jan Dismas Zelenka
 * Deus dux fortissime, ZWV 60
 * Da pacem Domine, ZWV 167
 * Domenico Zipoli – Sonate d'intavolatura per organo e cimbalo, Op. 1

Opera

 * Antonio Maria Bononcini – Sesostri re d'Egitto
 * Giuseppe Maria Buini – Armida abbandonata
 * Francesco Ciampi – Timocrate
 * Francesco Bartolomeo Conti – Il finto Policare
 * Johann Christoph Pepusch – Apollo and Daphne
 * Carlo Francesco Pollarolo – Ariodante
 * Alessandro Scarlatti – Carlo re d'Allemagna
 * Antonio Vivaldi
 * Arsilda Regina di Ponto
 * La costanza trionfante degl'amori e degl'odii, RV 706
 * L'incoronazione di Dario, RV 719

Publications

 * Johann Heinrich Buttstett – Ut, mi, sol, re, fa, la, tota musica et harmonia aeterna
 * François Campion – Traité d'accompagnement et de composition
 * Estienne Roger – Concerti a Cinque con Violini, Oboè, Violetta, Violoncello e Basso Continuo del Signori G. Valentini, A. Vivaldi, T. Albinoni, F. M. Veracini, G. St. Martin, A. Marcello, G. Rampin, A. Predieri

Births

 * February 9 – Johann Trier, composer
 * March 21 – Josef Seger, composer (died 1782)
 * April 12 – Felice Giardini, violinist and composer (died 1796)
 * c. 1716/17 – John Beard, tenor and actor-manager (died 1791)

Deaths

 * August 3 – Sebastián Durón, composer (b. 1660)
 * September 25 – Johann Christoph Pez, composer (b. 1664)
 * October 1 – Giovanni Battista Bassani, composer, violinist and organist (born c. 1650)
 * November – Johann Aegidus Bach, organist and uncle of Johann Sebastian (born 1645)
 * December 1 – Johann Samuel Drese, composer (b. c. 1644)
 * December 6 – Benedictus Buns, Dutch religious composer (b. 1642)
 * date unknown – Carlo Giuseppe Testore, double bass maker (born c. 1665)