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
  • Flavio
  • Ottone
• 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)