1719 in music

Events

• February – George Frideric Handel leaves his employment at Cannons to become musical director of the Royal Academy of Music. Giovanni Bononcini is brought to London to compose for the Academy.
• August 20 – Francesco Veracini performs at the palace of Moritzburg for the wedding of the Crown Prince to Maria Josepha of Austria.
• November 29 – Domenico Scarlatti arrives in Lisbon to take up his post as kapellmeister to João V of Portugal.
• Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf founds the firm of Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig, the world's oldest music publisher.
• Alessandro Scarlatti arrives in Rome.
• Johann Mattheson becomes kapellmeister to the Duke of Holstein.
• Giuseppe Pitoni becomes choirmaster of St Peter's in Rome.
• Antonio Stradivarius makes the "Duke of Marlborough" cello.
• In Japan, the Kumiodori dance form is created by Chokun Tamagusuku.
• Jean-Baptiste Morin becomes "maître de musique" to Louise-Adélaïde, daughter of the Duke of Orléans.

  Published popular music

• Thomas Fleet – Mother Goose's Melodies For Children

  Classical music

• Johann Sebastian Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
• Jacques-Martin Hotteterre – L'Art de préluder sur la flûte traversière, Op. 7

  Opera

• Alessandro Scarlatti – Marco Attilio Regolò
• Antonio Vivaldi – Il Teuzzone; Tito Manlio -

  Births

• November 9 – Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, polymath
• November 14 – Leopold Mozart, baroque composer

  Deaths

• January 19 – Joachim Tielke, German instrument-maker
• May – John Lenton, violinist, singer and composer
• July – Johann Valentin Meder, organist, singer and composer
• July 28 – Arp Schnitger, organ builder
• date unknown
• *Michael Mietke, maker of harpsichords and harps
• *Juan de Navas, harpist and composer
• *André Raison, organist and composer
• probable
• *Johann Speth, composer
• *Francesco Antonio Urio, composer