1716 in music

The year 1716 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• July 1 – Domenico Zipoli joins the Society of Jesus. Soon afterwards he is sent on a mission to Paraguay.
• 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 – Six Overtures (first performed, Venice)
• 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 Giardini, violinist and composer (d. 1796)

Deaths

• August 3 – Sebastián Durón, composer (b. 1660)
• September 25 – Johann Christoph Pez, composer (b. 1664)
• October 1 – Giovanni Battista Bassani, composer, violinist and organist (born c. 1650)
• 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 (b. 1642)
• date unknown – Carlo Giuseppe Testore, double bass maker (born c. 1665)