1712 in music

The year 1712 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• George Frideric Handel re-locates to London.
• Johann Georg Pisendel joins the court orchestra at Dresden.
• March 25 - Approximate date of the première of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Mark Passion pastiche at the chapel of Wilhelmsburg Castle (two movements by Bach).

Classical music

• Francesco Antonio Bonporti – Opus X for violin
• Henry Carey – Setting of "The Lord My Pasture Shall Prepare" (hymn) by Joseph Addison
• Benedetto Marcello – Sonatas for Recorder and Basso Continuo
• Francesco Maria Veracini – Il trionfo della innocenza patrocinata da S. NiccoI (oratorio)

Opera

• André Campra – Idomenée
• George Frideric Handel – Il Pastor Fido
• John Hughes (1677-1720) and Johann Ernst Galliard (d. 1747) – Calypso and Telemachus (opera)^[1]
• Antonio Lotti – Porsenna

Births

• January
  • David Owen, harpist (died 1741)
  • Cecilia Young, soprano, wife of Thomas Arne (died 1789)
• January 17 – John Stanley, composer and organist (died 1786)
• January 24 – Frederick II of Prussia, enthusiastic amateur musician and composer (died 1786)
• March 13 – Isfrid Kayser, composer
• June 28 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, polymath (died 1778)
• July – John Hebden, musician and composer (died 1765)
• December 1 – Bernhard Christian Weber
• date unknown – John Christopher Smith, composer (died 1795)
• date unknown - Sophia Schröder, vocalist at the Kungliga Hovkapellet (died 1750)

Deaths

• April – Lambert Chaumont, organist and composer (born c.1630)
• April 29 – Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer
• August 4 – Johann Jacob de Neufville, composer
• August 7 – Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau, organist at Halle (born 1663)
• August 24 – Thomas Bullis, composer
• August 26 – Sebastian Anton Scherer, composer
• September 30 – Johann Michael Zacher, composer
• November 6 – Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer (born 1654)
• date unknown – Carlo Alessandro Guidi, poet and songwriter (born 1650)

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