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The year 1716 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Georg Philipp Telemann visits Eisenach, resulting in an appointment as visiting Kapellmeister.
• Jonathan Swift conceives the idea for the Beggar's Opera.
• Giuseppe Tartini hears Francesco Maria Veracini play the violin, and is inspired.

Classical music

• William Babell - The Fourth Book of the Ladys Entertainment
• François Couperin - L'art de toucher le clavecin
• Michel Montéclair - Musette (Les festes de l'été)
• Alessandro Scarlatti - Ombre tacite e sole
• Georg Philipp Telemann - Concerto for 3 Trumpets, 2 Oboes, Timpani and Strings in D major
• Francesco Maria Veracini - Overture no 5 in B flat major
• Antonio Vivaldi - 6 Violin Sonatas (Op. 5)
• Domenico Zipoli - Sonate d'intavolatura per organo e cimbalo

Opera

• Antonio Maria Bononcini - Sesostri re d'Egitto
• Giuseppe Maria Buini - Armida abbandonata
• Francesco Ciampi - Timocrate
• Johann Christoph Pepusch - Apollo and Daphne
• Antonio Vivaldi - Arsilda Regina di Ponto and La Constanza

Publications

• Johann Heinrich Buttstett - Ut, mi, sol, re, fa, la, tota musica et harmonia aeterna

Births

• February 9 - Johann Trier, composer
• March 21 - Josef Seger, composer (died 1782)
• April 12 - Felice de Giardini, violinist and composer

Deaths

• date unknown - Johann Aegidus Bach, organist and uncle of Johann Sebastian (born 1645)
• date unknown - Carlo Giuseppe Testore, double bass maker (born c.1665)
• 6 December, Benedictus Buns Dutch religious composer