1714 in music

• March 2 – Johann Sebastian Bach is appointed Konzertmeister at Weimar, having declined a post at Halle.[http://www.jsbach.org/timeline.html J S Bach timeline.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226083800/http://www.jsbach.org/timeline.html |date=2012-02-26 }} Accessed 7 March 2013
• A school of dance opens at the Paris Opera.
• Michel Richard Delalande assumes full control of the French royal chapel upon the retirement of his last co-sous maîtres.{{cite book |last=Palisca |first= Claude V. |title=Baroque Music |origyear=1968 |edition=3rd |series=Prentice Hall History of Music |year=1991 |publisher=Prentice Hall |location=Englewood Cliffs |isbn=0-13-058496-7 |page=283 }}
• Francesco Geminiani arrives in London, where he obtains the patronage of William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex.
• Melchior Hoffmann, composer, marries Margaretha Elisabeth Philipp; he is already suffering from a terminal illness.
• Domenico Scarlatti becomes maestro di cappella at the Cappella Giulia in the Vatican.
• Francesco Maria Veracini visits London and performs at the Queen's Theatre.
• The first permanent church organ in the United States, the Brattle organ, imported by Thomas Brattle,Elson, The History of American Music, pg. 10 is installed in Boston at King's Chapel.Southern, pg. 24
• John Tufts publishes the first instructional book for singing in the USA.
• Gottfried Silbermann completes the new organ for Freiberg Cathedral.[http://www.baroquemusic.org/silfrei.html The Great Silbermann Organ.] Accessed 7 March 2013

• Pirro Capacelli Conte Albergati – Cantate et oratorii spirituali, Op. 10
• William Babell – Prelude in G major from the Frontispiece
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12 (movement 2 would later form the {{lang|la|Crucifixus}} movement of his Mass in B minor)
• Widerstehe doch der Sünde, BWV 54
• Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV Anh. 55
• Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61
• Christen, ätzet diesen Tag, BWV 63
• Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn, BWV 152
• Erschallet, ihr Lieder, BWV 172
• Himmelskönig, sei willkommen, BWV 182
• Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199
• Kleines harmonisches Labyrinth, BWV 591 (Now attributed to Johann David Heinichen)
• Organ Concerto in E-flat major, BWV 597
• The Little Organ Book
• Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland, BWV 599
• Gott, durch deine Güte, BWV 600
• Lob sei dem allmächtigen Gott, BWV 602
• Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 604
• Vom Himmel kam der Engel Schaar, BWV 607
• Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten, BWV 642
• Alle Menschen müssen sterben, BWV 643
• Toccata in C minor, BWV 911
• Toccata in G major, BWV 916
• Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, BWV 944
• Aria variata in A minor, BWV 989
• Violin Sonata in E minor, BWV 1023
• Antonio Caldara – Laboravi in gemitu meo
• André Campra – Enée et Didon
• Giovanni Maria Casini – Pensieri per Organo
• Arcangelo Corelli
• Christmas Concerto
• Twelve concerti grossi, Op. 6, published posthumously
• François Couperin – Leçons de ténèbres
• Henri Desmarets – Grands Motets
• Christoph Graupner – Mir hat die Welt trüglich gericht, GWV 1103/14
• George Frideric Handel – Te Deum in D major, HWV 278
• Johann Ernst Prinz von Sachsen-Weimar – Violin Concerto in G major
• Reinhard Keiser – Musicalische Land-Lust
• Jean-Baptiste Loeillet – 12 Recorder Sonatas, Op. 2
• Johann Mattheson – Harmonisches Denckmahl (12 Harpsichord suites)
• Santiago de Murcia – Resumen de acompañar la parte con la guitarra
• James Paisible – The Godolphin. Mr. Isaac's new dance, made for Her Majesty's Birth Day, 1714...
• André Raison – Deuxième livre d'orgue
• Jean-Féry Rebel – Les caractères de la danse
• Alessandro Scarlatti – S. Filippo Neri (oratorio)
• Jean-Baptiste Stuck – Héraclite et Démocrite
• Franz Mathias Techelmann – Toccate, Canzoni, Ricercari et altre Galanterie
• Georg Philipp Telemann – Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, TWV 1:1175
• Giuseppe Valentini – 12 Allettamenti da Camera, Op. 8

• Leonardo Leo – Pisistrato
• Jean-Baptiste Matho – Arion (tragédie en musique)
• Jean-Joseph Mouret
• Les Amours de Ragonde
• Les Fêtes ou Le Triomphe de Thalie
• Nicola Porpora – Arianna e Teseo
• Alessandro Scarlatti – L’amor generoso
• Antonio Vivaldi – Orlando finto pazzo, RV 727

• January 1 – Giovanni Battista Mancini, soprano castrato, voice teacher (died 1800){{cite book|author=Johann Adam Hiller|title=Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation by Johann Adam Hiller|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=keomPQV-Q8gC&pg=PA170|date=12 April 2001|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-42898-9|pages=170}}
• February – Susannah Maria Cibber, singer and actress, daughter of Thomas Arne (died 1766){{cite book|author=Lewis Saul Benjamin|title=Stage Favourites of the Eighteenth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A2WvAAAAIAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Books for Libraries Press|page=195}}
• February 2 – Gottfried August Homilius, composer, cantor and organist (died 1785){{cite book|author=David Paul Held|title=Chorale Preludes Composed in the Eighteenth Century for Organ and a Solo Instrument|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FcgXAQAAIAAJ|year=1976|publisher=University of Southern California|page=84}}
• February 28 – Gioacchino Conti, soprano castrato opera singer (died 1761)
• March 8 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (died 1788){{cite book|author=Martin Petzoldt|title=Bach's children in Leipzig: documents in Johann Sebastian Bach's own hand|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uWL0AAAAMAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Evangelische Verlagsanstalt|isbn=978-3-374-02505-3|page=26}}
• April 16 – Pedro António Avondano, Portuguese composer
• May 6 – Anton Raaff, tenor (died 1797)
• May 12 – Johan Daniel Berlin composer (died 1787)
• July 2 – Christoph Willibald Gluck (died 1787){{cite book|title=Collected correspondence and papers of Christoph Willibald Gluck|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dTdSAQAAIAAJ|year=1962|page=1}}
• September 10 – Niccolò Jommelli, composer (died 1774){{cite book|title=The Church Music of Davide Perez and Niccolò Jommelli|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OMTFs6GXvlUC&pg=PA11|publisher=Mauricio Dottori|isbn=978-85-98826-19-6|pages=11}}
• December 23 – Ranieri de' Calzabigi, librettist collaborating with Gluck (died 1795)
• date unknown
• Antonio Besozzi, Italian oboist and composer (died 1781)
• Abade António da Costa, Portuguese composer (died 1780){{cite book|last=Livermore|first=H. V.|title=Portugal: a traveller's history|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Cd0bKhByz8C&pg=PA68|accessdate=14 July 2011|date=1 November 2004|publisher=Boydell Press|isbn=978-1-84383-063-4|page=68}}
• Johan Foltmar, composer (died 1794)
• Christian Gottlob Hubert, builder of keyboard instruments (died 1793)
• Edmund Pascha, organist and composer (died 1772)
• probable – Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi, luthier (died 1771)

• January 4 – Atto Melani, opera singer (born 1626){{cite book|author1=Rita Monaldi|author2=Francesco Sorti|title=Veritas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6bG8BQAAQBAJ&pg=PT10|date=6 June 2013|publisher=Birlinn|isbn=978-0-85790-570-3|pages=10}}
• April 17 – Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer (born 1657){{cite book|author=Paul E. Eisler|title=World Chronology of Music History: 1594-1684|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=15IzAQAAIAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Oceana Publications|isbn=978-0-379-16082-6|page=363}}
• August 25 – Johann Georg Kühnhausen, composer (date of birth unknown)
• September 3 – Pietro Antonio Fiocco, composer (born 1654)
• November 13 – Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, organist (born 1632)
• date unknown – Benito Bello de Torices, Spanish composer, maestro at the Convent of Las Descalzas Reales (born c.1660)

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