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The year 1709 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Johann Georg Pisendel leaves his post in the court orchestra of Ansbach to travel to Leipzig, meeting Johann Sebastian Bach en route.
• Antonio Stradivari makes the Viotti Stradivarius.

Classical music

• Louis-Antoine Dornel - Livre de simphonies contenant six suites en trio avec une sonate en quatuor
• Michel Montéclair - Cantata: La Mort de Didon
• Giuseppe Torelli - Concerti Grossi, Op. 8: no 6 in G minor "Christmas Concerto", published posthumously
• William Babell - The Third Book of the Ladys Entertainment

Opera

• Emanuele d'Astorga - Dafne
• Michele Falco - Lo Lollo pisciaportelle
• George Frideric Handel - Agrippina
• Giuseppe Maria Orlandini - L'odio e l'amore

Births

• November 25 - Franz Benda, violinist and composer (died 1786)
• date unknown - Charles Collé, songwriter and dramatist (died 1783)

Deaths

• February 8 - Giuseppe Torelli, violinist and composer (born 1658)