1700 in music

The year 1700 in music involved some significant events.

List of years in music (table)

Events

  • John Eccles is appointed Master of the King's Musick.
  • William Croft returns to the Chapel Royal, where he had been educated, as a "gentleman organist".
  • William Corbett becomes director of the New Theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach becomes a chorister at St. Michael's Church, Lüneburg.
  • Tomaso Albinoni is employed as a violinist by Fernando Carlo, Duke of Mantua.
  • An inventory of musical instruments kept by Prince Ferdinando de Medici provides the first evidence for the existence of the pianoforte.

Classical music

Opera

Publications

Births

Deaths

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