1704 in music

See also: 1703 in music, other events of 1704, 1705 in music, list of years in music.

Contents

1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Opera 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• Johann Christoph Pepusch arrives in London.
• Following her husband's death, Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre begins hosting concerts in her home.
• The Leipzig Collegium Musicum is founded by Georg Philipp Telemann.
• Antonio Vivaldi becomes general superintendent of music at the Conservatory of

the Pieta, Venice.

• Johann Jacob Bach becomes an oboist in the army of King Charles XII of Sweden, inspiring Johann Sebastian to write a Capriccio on the Absence of His Most Beloved Brother.

Classical music

• Setting by Reinhard Keiser of Der blutige und sterbende Jesus by Christian Friedrich Hunold
• Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich (cantata) by Johann Sebastian Bach

Opera

Births

• June 11 - Carlos Seixas, composer (d. 1742)
• date unknown - Carl Heinrich Graun, composer and singer

Deaths

• February 23 - Georg Muffat, composer
• February 24 - Marc-Antoine Charpentier, composer
• February 25 - Isabella Leonarda , composer of church music
• May 3 - Heinrich Ignaz Biber, violinist and composer
• date unknown - Francesco Provenzale, composer
• date unknown - G.C. Strattner , friend and colleague of Bach at Lüneburg.