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The year 1716 in music involved some significant events.
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Events
- 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
- François Couperin - L'art de toucher le clavecin
- Michel Montéclair - Musette (Les festes de l'été)
- Alessandro Scarlatti - Ombre tacite e sole
- Georg Philipp Telemann - Concerto for 3 Trumpets, 2 Oboes, Timpani and Strings in D major
- Francesco Maria Veracini - Overture no 5 in B flat major
- Antonio Vivaldi - 6 Violin Sonatas (Op. 5)
- Domenico Zipoli - Sonate d'intavolatura per organo e cimbalo
Opera
- Antonio Maria Bononcini - Sesostri re d'Egitto
- Giuseppe Maria Buini - Armida abbandonata
- Francesco Ciampi - Timocrate
- Johann Christoph Pepusch - Apollo and Daphne
- Antonio Vivaldi - Arsilda Regina di Ponto and La Constanza
Publications
- Johann Heinrich Buttstett - Ut, mi, sol, re, fa, la, tota musica et harmonia aeterna
Births
- February 9 - Johann Trier, composer
- March 21 - Josef Seger, composer (died 1782)
- April 12 - Felice de Giardini, violinist and composer
Deaths
- 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
- date unknown - Carlo Giuseppe Testore, double bass maker (born c.1665)
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