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The year 1708 in music involved some significant events.
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Events
- Alessandro Scarlatti returns to Naples from Venice.
- Johann Sebastian Bach becomes organist and concert-master at the Weimar court.
- Arcangelo Corelli returns to Rome and joins the household of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni.
Published popular music
- Lyra Davidica (hymns)
- Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Classical Music
- George Frederic Handel - La Resurrezione (The Resurrection) (oratorio)
Opera
- André Campra - Hippodamie
- George Frideric Handel
- Daphne
- Florindo
- Nicola Porpora - Aggripina
Births
- January 26 - William Hayes (composer), composer
- February 8 - Václav Jan Kopřiva, composer (died 1789)
- February 11 - Egidio Romualdo Duni, composer of opera comique (d. 1775)
- February 25 - Felix Benda, composer (died 1768)
- April 6 - Georg Reutter, composer of church music (died 1772)
- June 19 - Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, composer (died 1763)
- November 4 - Robert Praelisauer, composer
- December 4 - Marianus Konigsperger, composer
- date unknown
- Lavinia Fenton, actress, the original Polly Peachum (died 1760)
- Johann Adolph Scheibe, composer (died 1776)
- William Tuckey, composer (died 1781)
Deaths
- January 23 - Thomas Bullis, composer
- May 27 - Jacques Danican Philidor, composer
- August 4 - Vincenzo De Grandis, composer
- October 1 - John Blow, composer (born 1649)
- date unknown
- Moll Davis, singer (born c. 1648)
- Giovanni Battista Draghi, composer and keyboardist (born c.1640)
- Johannes Kelpius, mystic and musician (born 1673)
- Thomas Pereira, musician (born 1645)
- Bernard Smith, organ maker (born c. 1630)
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