1711 in music

Events

• February 24 – The London premiere of Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage, at the Queen's Theatre, Haymarket. This is the first of at least 25 operas by Handel that will appear by 1739. John Walsh becomes Handel's regular printer beginning with the publication of Rinaldo.
• April 3 – Possible premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Mark Passion pastiche at the chapel of Wilhelmsburg Castle.
• Invention of the tuning fork by John Shore.

  Classical music

• Giovanni Maria Bononcini – Idol mio, bel tesoro
• Louis-Antoine Dornel – 8 Violin Sonatas and 4 Flute Suites, Op. 2
• Sebastián Durón – Veneno es de Amor la envidia
• Christoph Graupner
• *Furcht und Zagen, GWV 1102/11b
• *Angenehmes Wasserbad, GWV 1104/11c
• *Reiner Geist lass doch mein Herz, GWV 1138/11
• *Ach Gott wie manches Herzeleid, GWV 1142/11
• *Angst und Jammer, GWV 1145/11
• George Frideric Handel
• * Siete rose rugiadose, HWV 162
• * Splenda l'alba in oriente, HWV 166
• * Oboe Sonata in F major, HWV 363a
• * Sonata for oboe in C minor, HWV 366
• Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre – Cantates françaises sur des sujets tirés de l’écriture, Livre II
• Barbara Kluntz – Choral Music Buch
• Leo Leonardo – Splende più dell'usato
• Francesco Manfredini – Concerto for 2 Trumpets in D Major
• Marin Marais – Pièces de Viole, Book 3
• Michele Mascitti – 14 Sonatas, Op. 4
• Alessandro Scarlatti – Miserere
• Jean-Baptiste Stuck – Les Bains de Tomery
• Joseph Valette de Montigny – Motets I
• Francesco Mario Veracini – Concerto for eight instruments in D major
• Antonio Vivaldi – L'Estro armonico, published in Amsterdam

  Opera

• Sebastián Durón – Las nuevas armas de amor
• Johann Friedrich Fasch – Clomire
• George Frideric Handel – Rinaldo
• Reinhard Keiser – Croesus
• Nicola Porpora – Flavio Anicio Olibrio

  Births

• January 12 – Gaetano Latilla, opera composer
• January 29 – Giuseppe Bonno, composer
• April 22 – Paul II Anton, Prince Esterházy, patron of music
• June 23 – Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, luthier
• July 26 – Lorenz Christoph Mizler, writer on music
• September 11 – William Boyce, composer
• September 18 – Ignaz Holzbauer, composer
• December 25 – Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, violinist and composer
• date unknown
• *Davide Perez, opera composer
• *John Francis Wade, hymnist
• probable – Panna Cinka, violinist

  Deaths

• March 19 – Thomas Ken, hymn-writer
• September 3 – Élisabeth Sophie Chéron, artist and musician
• September 27 – Christian Geist, organist and composer
• November 3 – Ferdinand Tobias Richter, organist and composer
• December 18 – Louis de Deyster, artist and maker of musical instruments
• December 25 – Johann Nikolaus Hanff, organist and composer
• probable – Joannes Florentius a Kempis, Dutch composer