1714 in music

Events

• March 2 – Johann Sebastian Bach is appointed Konzertmeister at Weimar, having declined a post at Halle.
• 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.
• 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, is installed in Boston at King's Chapel.
• John Tufts publishes the first instructional book for singing in the USA.
• Gottfried Silbermann completes the new organ for Freiberg Cathedral.

  Classical music

• 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
• *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
• *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
• 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
• 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

  Opera

• Leonardo Leo – Pisistrato
• Jean-Baptiste Matho – Arion
• 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

  Births

• January 1 – Giovanni Battista Mancini, soprano castrato, voice teacher
• February – Susannah Maria Cibber, singer and actress, daughter of Thomas Arne
• February 2 – Gottfried August Homilius, composer, cantor and organist
• February 28 – Gioacchino Conti, soprano castrato opera singer
• March 8 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
• April 16 – Pedro António Avondano, Portuguese composer
• May 6 – Anton Raaff, tenor
• May 12 – Johan Daniel Berlin composer
• July 2 – Christoph Willibald Gluck
• September 10 – Niccolò Jommelli, composer
• December 23 – Ranieri de' Calzabigi, librettist collaborating with Gluck
• date unknown
• *Antonio Besozzi, Italian oboist and composer
• *Abade António da Costa, Portuguese composer
• *Johan Foltmar, composer
• *Christian Gottlob Hubert, builder of keyboard instruments
• *Edmund Pascha, organist and composer
• probable – Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi, luthier

  Deaths

• January 4 – Atto Melani, opera singer
• April 17 – Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer
• August 25 – Johann Georg Kühnhausen, composer
• September 3 – Pietro Antonio Fiocco, composer
• November 13 – Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, organist
• date unknown – Benito Bello de Torices, Spanish composer, maestro at the Convent of Las Descalzas Reales