1717 in music

The year 1717 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * March 26 – Johann Sebastian Bach premieres his Weimarer Passion at the chapel of Friedrichstein Castle in Gotha
 * July 13 – Domenico Zipoli arrives in Buenos Aires with 52 other Jesuit missionaries.
 * July 17 – George Frideric Handel's Water Music is performed on the River Thames.
 * August – Handel becomes house composer at Cannons.
 * December 26 – Teatro Regio Ducale in Milan opens as an opera house.
 * Johann Sebastian Bach is appointed Kapellmeister by Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen.
 * Celebrated castrato Gaetano Berenstadt visits London and plays the lead in a revival of Handel's Rinaldo.

Classical music

 * Tomaso Albinoni – Violin Sonata in B-Flat Major, T. So 32
 * William Babell – Suits of the most Celebrated Lessons
 * Johann Sebastian Bach
 * 6 Kleine Präludien, BWV 933-938
 * 5 Kleine Präludien, BWV 939-943
 * Violin Sonata in B minor, BWV 1014
 * Violin Sonata in E major, BWV 1016
 * Violin Sonata in C minor, BWV 1017
 * Violin Sonata in F minor, BWV 1018
 * Violin Sonata in G major, BWV 1019
 * Pietro G.G. Boni – Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 1
 * François Chauvon – Tibiades
 * François Couperin – Pièces de clavecin, book 2
 * Charles Dieupart – 6 Sonatas for a Flute and a Through Bass
 * Johann Friedrich Fasch – Brockes-Passion, FaWV F:1
 * Christoph Graupner – Wie wunderbar ist Gottes Güte, GWV 1103/17
 * Georg Friedrich Handel
 * Dolc' è pur d'amor l'affanno, HWV 109a
 * Mi palpita il cor, HWV 132b
 * O be Joyful in the Lord, HWV 246
 * In the Lord I Put My Trust, HWV 247
 * Have Mercy upon Me, O God, HWV 248
 * O Sing unto the Lord a New Song, HWV 249b
 * I Will Magnify Thee, HWV 250a
 * O Praise the Lord with One Consent, HWV 254
 * The Lord is My Light, HWV 255
 * Oboe Concerto in B-flat major, HWV 302a
 * Concerto Grosso in G major, HWV 314
 * Water Music HWV 348-350
 * Trio Sonata in C minor, HWV 386a
 * Jacques Hotteterre – Suite in G major, Op. 6
 * Jean-Baptiste Loeillet – 12 Sonatas, Op. 5
 * Marin Marais – Pièces de viole, Livre 4
 * Pierre-Danican Philidor – 12 Suites, Opp. 1-3
 * Georg Philipp Telemann
 * Gott der Hoffnung erfülle euch, TWV 1:634 (formerly BWV 218)
 * Herr, sei mir gnädig, denn mir ist Angst, TWV 1:769
 * Ich bin der Erste und der Letzte, TWV 1:816
 * Sehet an die Exempel der Alten, TWV 1:1259
 * Antonio Vandini – Cello Sonata in C major, IAV 5
 * Antonio Vivaldi
 * Violin Sonata in C minor, RV 5
 * Concerto for Strings in C major, RV 114
 * Concerto for Strings in D major, RV 121
 * Concerto for Strings in D minor, RV 127
 * Concerto for 2 Oboes in C major, RV 534
 * Magnificat, RV 610
 * John Weaver (choreographer; composers unknown) – The Loves of Mars and Venus (ballet)

Opera

 * Antonio Maria Bononcini – La conquista del vello d'oro
 * Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello – Tisbe
 * Antonio Caldara – La verità nell'inganno
 * Leo Leonardo – Diana amante
 * Alessandro Scarlatti – Telemaco
 * Antonio Vivaldi
 * L'Incoronazione di Dario
 * Tieteberga, RV 737

Births

 * January 4 – Antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer (died 1785)
 * April 9 – Georg Matthias Monn, composer (died 1750)
 * June 18 – Johann Stamitz, violinist and composer (died 1757)
 * June 27 – Giacomo Durazzo, operatic impresario (died 1794)
 * date unknown
 * Leopold August Abel, violinist and composer (died 1794)
 * Elisabeth Lillström, Swedish operatic soprano (d. 1791)
 * William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymn writer (died 1791)
 * probable – Marimutthu Pillai, composer of Carnatic music (died c.1787)

Deaths

 * February 11 – Johann Jakob Walther, violinist and composer (born 1650)
 * April 3 – Christian Friedrich Witt, composer, music editor and teacher (born c.1660)
 * October 13 – Wolfgang Printz, composer and cantor (born 1641)
 * November 26 – Daniel Purcell, composer (born 1664)
 * date unknown
 * Pierre Bouteiller, composer (born 1655)
 * Goffredo Cappa, luthier (born 1644)
 * Friedrich Erhard Niedt, jurist, music theorist, and composer (born 1674)
 * probable – Francisco Guerau, composer (born 1649)