1712 in music
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The year 1712 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- March 18 – Georg Philipp Telemann arrives in Frankfurt to take up his new post as city director of music and Kapellmeister at the Barfüsserkirche.
- 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).
- September – George Frideric Handel re-locates to London, with the permission of his patron, the future King George I of Great Britain.[http://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/focus/handel-conquers-london Richard Wigmore, "Handel conquers London". Gramophone, 10 August 2012. Accessed 22 February 2013]
- Johann Georg Pisendel joins the court orchestra at Dresden.
Classical music
- Tomaso Albinoni – 12 Trattenimenti armonici, Op. 6
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 541
- Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major, BWV 564
- Fantasia in G major, BWV 572
- Toccata in F-sharp minor, BWV 910
- Fugue in B minor, BWV 951
- Fughetta in C minor, BWV 961
- Suite in E minor for lute, BWV 996
- Francesco Antonio Bonporti – 10 Inventions, Op. 10
- Pieter Bustijn – 9 Suittes pour le clavessin
- Henry Carey – Setting of "The Lord My Pasture Shall Prepare" (hymn) by Joseph Addison
- Arcangelo Corelli – Twelve Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 (composed)
- Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco
- Concerti a quattro da chiesa, Op. 2
- 12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 3
- Christoph Graupner
- Jesus ist und bleibt mein Leben, GWV 1107/12
- Mein Gott, warum hast du mich verlassen?, GWV 1118/12a
- Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, GWV 1143/12
- Demütiget euch nun, GWV 1144/12
- Zähle meine Flucht, GWV 1154/12b
- Wer da glaubet dass Jesus sei der Christ, GWV 1171/12
- George Frideric Handel – O Sing unto the Lord a New Song, HWV 249a
- Jacques-Martin Hotteterre
- Sonates en trio pour les flûtes traversières et a bec, violon, hautbois, Op. 3
- Suite in B minor, Op. 4
- Reinhard Keiser – Brockes-Passion (Text by Barthold Heinrich Brockes)
- Ferdinando Antonio Lazzari – Concerto in D major
- John Loeillet – Lessons for the Harpsichord or Spinet
- Benedetto Marcello – 12 Recorder Sonatas, Op. 2
- Jean-Baptiste Morin – Cantates françoises à une et trois voix, Op. 6
- James Paisible – The Gloucester. Mr. Isaac's new dance, made for Her Majesty's Birth Day...
- Anne Danican Philidor – Premier livre de pièces
- Giovanni Antonion Piani – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1
- Charles Piroye – Pièces d'orgue
- Jean-Féry Rebel – Boutade
- Georg Philipp Telemann
- Das ist meine Freude, TWV 8:17
- Ouverture-Suite, TWV 55:A5 (approx.)
- Francesco Maria Veracini – Il trionfo della innocenza patrocinata da S. NiccoI (oratorio)
- Antonio Vivaldi – Violin Concerto in D major, RV 212
- Johann Gottfried Walther – Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht
- Jan Dismas Zelenka – Attendite et videte, ZWV 59
Opera
- André Campra – Idomenée
- André Cardinal Destouches – Callirhoé
- George Frideric Handel
- Il Pastor Fido
- Teseo, HWV 9 (composed)
- John Hughes (1677–1720) and Johann Ernst Galliard (d. 1747) – Calypso and Telemachus (opera){{cite web |title= Document: Songs in the opera of Calypso & Telemachus |publisher= University of Rochester |url= https://urresearch.rochester.edu/handle/1802/3142 |accessdate= 2007-08-16}}
- 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)
- January 26 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer and head of a musical dynasty (died 1781)
- June 28 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, polymath (died 1778)
- July – John Hebden, musician and composer (died 1765)
- date unknown
- Marimutthu Pillai, Carnatic music composer (died 1787)
- John Christopher Smith, composer (died 1795)
- Sophia Schröder, vocalist at the Kungliga Hovkapellet (died 1750)
- probable – Kane O'Hara, playwright and musician (died 1782)
Deaths
- April – Lambert Chaumont, organist and composer (born c.1630)
- April 29 – Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer
- August 7 – Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau, organist at Halle (born 1663)
- August 26 – Sebastian Anton Scherer, composer (born 1631)
- September 30 – Johann Michael Zächer, composer (born 1649)
- November 6 – Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer (born 1654)
- date unknown
- Buhurizade Mustafa Itri, composer and performer of Turkish classical music (born c.1640)
- Juan de Araujo, Spanish composer active in South and Central America (born 1646)
- Carlo Alessandro Guidi, poet and songwriter (born 1650)
- probable – Carlo Ambrogio Lonati, violinist, composer and singer