1708 in music
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- Alessandro ScarlattiAlessandro ScarlattiAlessandro Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.-Life:Scarlatti was born in...
returns to Naples from Venice. - Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
becomes organist and concert-master at the WeimarWeimarWeimar is a city in Germany famous for its cultural heritage. It is located in the federal state of Thuringia , north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig. Its current population is approximately 65,000. The oldest record of the city dates from the year 899...
court. - Arcangelo CorelliArcangelo CorelliArcangelo Corelli was an Italian violinist and composer of Baroque music.-Biography:Corelli was born at Fusignano, in the current-day province of Ravenna, although at the time it was in the province of Ferrara. Little is known about his early life...
returns to Rome and joins the household of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni.
Published popular music
- Lyra Davidica (hymns)
- Isaac WattsIsaac WattsIsaac Watts was an English hymnwriter, theologian and logician. A prolific and popular hymnwriter, he was recognised as the "Father of English Hymnody", credited with some 750 hymns...
, Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Opera
- André CampraAndré CampraAndré Campra was a French composer and conductor.Campra was one of the leading French opera composers in the period between Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Philippe Rameau. He wrote several tragédies en musique, but his chief claim to fame is as the creator of a new genre, opéra-ballet...
– Hippodamie - George Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...
- Daphne
- FlorindoFlorindoDer beglückte Florindo is an opera composed by Handel at the request of Reinhard Keiser, the manager of the Hamburg Opera. It was first performed at the Theater am Gänsemarkt in January 1708...
- Nicola PorporaNicola PorporaNicola Porpora was an Italian composer of Baroque operas and teacher of singing, whose most famous singing student was the castrato Farinelli. One of his other students was composer Matteo Capranica.-Biography:Porpora was born in Naples...
– Aggripina
Births
- January 26 – William Hayes (composer), composer
- February 8 – Václav Jan KopřivaVáclav Jan KopřivaVáclav Jan Kopřiva was a Bohemian composer and organist.-Life:...
, composer (died 1789) - February 11 – Egidio Romualdo DuniEgidio Romualdo DuniEgidio Romualdo Duni was an Italian composer who studied in Naples and worked in Italy, France and London, writing both Italian and French operas....
, composer of opera comique (d. 1775) - February 25 – Felix BendaFelix BendaFelix Benda was a Bohemian composer and organist. He was a member of Benda musical family....
, composer (died 1768) - April 6 – Georg Reutter, composer of church music (died 1772)
- June 19 – Johann Gottlieb JanitschJohann Gottlieb JanitschJohann Gottlieb Janitsch was a German Baroque composer.Janitsch was born in Schweidnitz, Silesia. He graduated from the University of Frankfurt an der Oder. He held various positions at the court of the Kingdom of Prussia, eventually becoming the personal musician of Frederick the Great. Janitsch...
, composer (died 1763) - November 4 – Robert Praelisauer, composer
- December 4 – Marianus Konigsperger, composer
- date unknown
- Lavinia FentonLavinia FentonLavinia Powlett, Duchess of Bolton , known by her stagename as Lavinia Fenton, was an English actress.She was probably the daughter of a naval lieutenant named Beswick, but she bore the name of her mother's husband. She was thought to have been born in Charring Cross, and had been a child...
, actress, the original Polly Peachum (died 1760) - Johann Adolph ScheibeJohann Adolph ScheibeJohann Adolph Scheibe was a Danish composer, who in 1737 published an influential criticism of Johann Sebastian Bach's music.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....
, composer (died 1776) - William TuckeyWilliam TuckeyWilliam Tuckey was an American composer, who exerted important influence on the musical life of the Colonial United States. He was one of the first American composers to gain notability, and was also a choir master and organist...
, composer (died 1781)
- Lavinia Fenton
Deaths
- January 23 – Thomas Bullis, composer
- May 13 – Giovanni Battista DraghiGiovanni Battista Draghi (composer)Giovanni Battista Draghi was an Italian composer and keyboard player. He may have been the brother of the composer Antonio Draghi....
, composer and keyboardist (born c.1640) - May 27 – Jacques Danican Philidor, composer
- August 4 – Vincenzo De Grandis, composer
- October 1 – John BlowJohn BlowJohn Blow was an English Baroque composer and organist, appointed to Westminster Abbey in 1669. His pupils included William Croft, Jeremiah Clarke and Henry Purcell. In 1685 he was named a private musician to James II. His only stage composition, Venus and Adonis John Blow (baptised 23 February...
, composer (born 1649) - date unknown
- Moll DavisMoll DavisMary "Moll" Davis was a seventeenth-century entertainer and courtesan, singer and actress who became one of the many mistresses of King Charles II of England.- Early life, theatre career:...
, singer (born c. 1648) - Johannes KelpiusJohannes KelpiusJohannes Kelpius , a German Pietist, mystic, musician, and writer, interested in the occult, botany, and astronomy, came to believe with his followers in the "Society of the Woman in the Wilderness" that the end of the world would occur in 1694...
, mystic and musician (born 1673) - Thomas PereiraThomas PereiraThomas Pereira or Tomás Pereira , also known as Tomé Pereira, was a Portuguese Jesuit and musician who worked as a missionary in Qing China....
, musician (born 1645) - Bernard Smith, organ maker (born c. 1630)
- Moll Davis