1723 in music
The year 1723 in music involved some significant events.
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Events
- April 13 – Johann Sebastian Bach is given permission to leave Köthen to take up his new appointment (from May 5) as cantor and musical director of St. Thomas Church, Leipzig; to obtain the post, he has fended off opposition from several prominent musicians, including Georg Friedrich Kauffmann.
- July/August – Handel moves to 25 Brook Street, London, the modern-day Handel House Museum.
- November 2 – J. S. Bach's cantata Höchsterwünschtes Freudenfest, BWV 194 is first performed for dedication of the church and organ at Störmthal.
- December 26 – J. S. Bach's cantata Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes, BWV 40 is first performed in Leipzig.
- Alessandro Scarlatti begins his last major work, a serenata for the marriage of the prince of Stigliano, which will be left unfinished at his death.
- Publication of Opinioni de' cantori antichi e moderni by Pier Francesco Tosi.
- Francesco Maria Veracini returns to Florence after a period in Germany.
- Antonio Vandini and Giuseppe Tartini go into the service of Count Kinsky in Prague.
Classical music
- Attilio Ariosti – Caio Marzio Coriolano
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe, BWV 22
- Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn, BWV 23
- Es ist nichts Gesundes an meinem Leibe, BWV 25
- Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft, BWV 50
- Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten, BWV 59
- O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60
- Sehet, welch eine Liebe, BWV 64
- Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV 69a
- Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, BWV 76
- Du sollt Gott, deinen Herren, lieben, BWV 77
- Es reißet euch ein schrecklich Ende, BWV 90
- Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knecht, BWV 105
- Preise, Jerusalem, den Herren, BWV 119
- Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz, BWV 136
- Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz, BWV 138
- Bringet dem Herrn Ehre seines Namens, BWV 148
- Ihr Menschen, rühmet Gottes Liebe, BWV 167
- Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV 186
- Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 190
- Höchsterwünschtes Freudenfest, BWV 194
- Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227
- Magnificat in E-flat major, BWV 243a
- Inventions and Sinfonias, BWV 772-801
- Fugue in C major, BWV 953
- Antonio Caldara – La concordia de' pianeti
- Louis-Antoine Dornel – Concerts de simphonies
- Jean-Marie Leclair – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1
- John Loeillet – 6 Suites of Lessons for the Harpsichord
- Marin Marais
- La Gamme et Autres Morceaux de Symphonie (inc. Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris)
- Alessandro Scarlatti
- 29 Partite sopra l’aria della Folia
- Primo e Secondo Libro di Toccate per Cembalo
- Giovanni Battista Somis – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 2
- Georg Philipp Telemann
- Hamburger Admiralitätsmusik (Hamburg Admiralty Music)
- Overture-Suite in C major, TV 55:C3 "Wassermusik"
- Siehe, es hat überwunden, TWV 1:1328 (attributed to J.S. Bach as BWV 219)
- Antonio Vivaldi – The Four Seasons (approximate date)
- Jan Dismas Zelenka
- Concerto a 8 in G major
- Proh, quos criminis, ZWV 172
Opera
- Giovanni Bononcini – Erminia
- François Colin de Blamont – Les Festes grecques et romaines
- Francesco Feo – Morano e Rosina
- George Frideric Handel
- Leonardo Leo – La’mpeca scoperta
- Nicola Porpora
- Adelaide
- Imeneo in Atene
- Pietro Torri – Griselda
- Antonio Vivaldi – Ercole su'l Termodonte, RV 710
Births
- April 25 – Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer (died 1797)
- November 9 – Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia, composer (died 1787)
- December 22 – Carl Friedrich Abel, composer (died 1787)
- date unknown
- Pascal Taskin, harpsichord and piano maker (died 1793)
- Francesco Uttini, conductor and composer (died 1795)
Deaths
- February 7 – Carlo Francesco Pollarolo, composer (born c. 1653)
- August 21 – Dimitrie Cantemir, prince and polymath (born 1673)
- September 23 – William Babell, organist and composer (born 1690)
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