1719 in music
Categories: 1719 | Years in music
See also: 1718 in music, other events of 1719, 1720 in music, list of years in music.
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Events
- George Frideric Handel becomes musical director of the Royal Academy of Music. Giovanni Bononcini is brought to London to compose for the Academy.
- Alessandro Scarlatti arrives in Rome.
- Domenico Scarlatti becomes kapellmeister to João V of Portugal.
- Johann Mattheson becomes kapellmeister to the Duke of Holstein.
- Giuseppe Pitoni becomes choirmaster of St Peter's in Rome.
- Francesco Veracini performs at the palace of Moritzburg for the wedding of the Crown Prince to Maria Josepha.
- Antonio Stradivarius makes the "Duke of Marlborough" cello.
- In Japan, the Kumiodori dance form is created by Chokun Tamagusuku.
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Published popular music
- Mother Goose's Melodies For Children - Thomas Fleet
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Classical music
- Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concerto no 4
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Opera
- Il Teuzzone and Tito Manlio - Antonio Vivaldi
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Births
- January 17 - Jean-Joseph Vade, composer
- April 17 - Christian Gottfried Krause, composer
- September 3 - Ferdinand Zellbell, composer
- October 26 - Joaquin de Oxinaga, composer
- November 10 - Georg Philipp Kress, composer
- November 14 Leopold Mozart, baroque composer
- December 24 - Johann Christoph Altnikol, composer
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Deaths
- February 25 - Giovanni Maria Casini, composer
- April 15 - Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer
- July 26 - Johann Georg Christian Storl, composer