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The year 1714 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• 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.^[1]
• Francesco Geminiani arrives in London, where he obtains the patronage of William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex.
• Georg 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.

Classical music

• Arcangelo Corelli - Twelve concerti grossi, op.6 , published posthumously
• George Frideric Handel - Utrecht Te Deum
• Johann Sebastian Bach

• The Little Organ Book
• Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (cantata)

Opera

The following operas were composed:

• Leonardo Leo - Pisistrato
• Jean-Joseph Mouret - Les Fêtes ou Le Triomphe de Thalie

Births

• March 8 - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (died 1788)
• March 24 - Carlo Giovanni Testori, composer
• July 2 - Christoph Willibald Gluck (died 1787 )
• September 10 - Niccolò Jommelli, composer (died 1774)
• September 25 - Jean-Benoit Leclair, composer
• December 23 - Johann Siebenkas, composer

Deaths

• April 17 - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer
• September 3 - Pietro Antonio Fiocco, composer (born 1654)
• date unknown - Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, organist (born 1632)

References

1. ^ Palisca, Claude V. [1968] (1991). Baroque Music, 3rd, Prentice Hall History of Music, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 283. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.