1718 in music

The year 1718 in music involved some significant events.

• Antonio Vivaldi tours Italy.
• Handel succeeds Johann Christoph Pepusch as Kapellmeister to the Duke of Chandos.
• Johann Joachim Quantz settles in Dresden.
• 14-year-old Carlos Seixas succeeds his father as organist at Coimbra Cathedral.

• Attilio Ariosti – Recueil de pièces
• William Babell – The Harpsichord Master Improved
• Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Lobet den Herrn, alle seine Heerscharen, BWV Anh.5
  • Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV Anh.77
  • Der Himmel dacht auf Anhalts Ruhm und Glück, BWV 66a
  • Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht, BWV 134a
  • Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten, BWV 202
  • Amore traditore, BWV 203
  • Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her, BWV 738
  • Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042
  • Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor, BWV 1043
  • Sinfonia in F major, BWV 1046a
  • Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047 (likely composed)
  • Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048
  • Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major, BWV 1066
• Antonio Caldara – Il martirio di San Terenziano
• Pietro Castrucci – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1
• Francesco Bartolomeo Conti – Amore in Tessaglia
• Jean-François Dandrieu – Les caractères de la guerre
• Johann Ernst Prinz von Sachsen-Weimar – 6 Violin Concertos, Op. 1
• Christoph Graupner – 8 Partitas
• George Frideric Handel
  • Esther (oratorio) HWV 50a
  • Dolc' è pur d'amor l'affanno, HWV 109b
  • L'aure grate, il fresco rio, HWV 121a
  • As Pants the Hart, HWV 251b
• Francesco Manfredini – 12 Concertos, Op. 3 (inc. No. 12 in C major "Christmas Pastorale")
• Pierre Danican Philidor
  • 4 Suites, Op. 2
  • 3 Suites, Op. 3
• Georg Philipp Telemann
  • 6 Suonatine per violino e cembalo (TWV 41)
  • 6 Trio Sonatas (TWV 42)
  • Concerto for 2 Recorders, TWV 52:a2
• Antonio Vivaldi – Qual in pioggia dorata, RV 686
• Giovanni Zamboni – Sonate d'intavolatura di leuto, Op. 1
• Jan Dismas Zelenka
  • Capriccio in G major, ZWV 183
  • Capriccio in F major, ZWV 184
  • Collectaneorum Musicorum, Book II (compilation of Poglietti and Frescobaldi scores compiled during Zelenka's time in Vienna)

• Toussaint Bertin de la Doué – Le Jugement de Paris
• Antonio Maria Bononcini – Griselda
• Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello – Tisbe, Premiered Jan. 26 in Stuttgart
• Antonio Caldara – Ifigenia in Aulide
• George Frideric Handel – Acis and Galatea HWV 49
• Nicola Porpora – Berenice regina d'Egitto
• Domenico Natale Sarro – Arsace
• Alessandro Scarlatti
  • Cambise, R.356.64
  • Il trionfo dell'onore
  • Telemaco
• Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel – Diomedes (inc. aria "Bist du bei mir", later arranged by J.S. Bach as BWV 508)
• Antonio Vivaldi
  • Armida al campo d'Egitto, RV 699
  • Scanderbeg, RV 732
  • Tito Manlio, RV 738

• Jean-François Dandrieu – Principes de l'Acompagnement du Clavecin

• January 18 – Christoph Ludwig Fehre, organist and composer (died 1772)
• April 14 – Emanuele Barbella, Italian composer and violinist (died 1777)
• August 9 – Placidus von Camerloher, German composer (died 1782)
• September 25 – Nicola Conforto, composer (died 1793)
• November 8 – Joseph Aloys Schmittbaur, composer (died 1809)
• November 21 – Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, music critic and composer (died 1795)
• date unknown
  • Wenzel Raimund Birck, composer (died 1763)
  • Mademoiselle Duval (nom de plume) (died c.1775)
  • Richard Mudge, composer (died 1763)
  • Giuseppe Scarlatti (or 1723), composer (died 1777)
• December 3 – Richard Duke, violin maker (died 1783)^[1]

• February 27 – Václav Karel Holan Rovenský, composer (born 1644)
• March – Richard Brind, organist and composer
• March 13 – Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns, composer (born 1637)
• April 1 – Johann Burchard Freystein, hymn writer (born 1671)
• November 26 – Bernardo Sabadini, opera composer