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The year 1708 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Alessandro Scarlatti returns to Naples from Venice.
• Johann Sebastian Bach becomes organist and concert-master at the Weimar court.

Published popular music

• Lyra Davidica (hymns)

Classical Music

• George Frederic Handel - La Resurrezione (The Resurrection) (oratorio)

Opera

• André Campra - Hippodamie
• George Frideric Handel
  • Daphne
  • Florindo
• Nicola Porpora - Aggripina

Births

• January 26 - William Hayes (composer), composer
• February 8 - Vaclav Jan Kopriva, composer
• February 9 - Egidio Romoaldo Duni, composer of opera comique
• April 6 - George Reuter, composer
• April 8 - Carl Georg Reutter, composer of church music (died 1772)
• June 19 - Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, composer
• November 4 - Robert Praelisauer, composer
• December 4 - Marianus Konigsperger, composer
• date unknown - Lavinia Fenton, actress, the original Polly Peachum (died 1760)

Deaths

• January 23 - Thomas Bullis, composer
• May 27 - Jacques Danican Philidor, composer
• August 4 - Vincenzo De Grandis, composer
• October 1 - John Blow, composer (born 1649)
• date unknown - Giovanni Battista Draghi, composer and keyboardist (born c.1640)