1722 in music

Overview of the events of 1722 in music

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The year 1722 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

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* Tomaso Albinoni becomes opera director to the Elector of Bavaria.
* André Campra becomes vice-maitre-de-chapelle of the Chapelle Royale at Versailles.
* In a staged quarrel, Francesco Maria Veracini comes into conflict with Johann David Heinichen and the singer Senesino, ending with his leaping from a third storey window. He will walk with a limp for the rest of his life.
* Johann Friedrich Fasch is appointed Kapellmeister at Zerbst, where he will remain for the rest of his life.
* Johann Sebastian Bach produces the first of his Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach.
* Jean-Philippe Rameau publishes the Traité de l'harmonie réduite à ses principes naturels.

Bach's Clavier.

## Classical music

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* Tomaso Albinoni – Concertos à cinque, Op. 9 (published)
* Johann Sebastian Bach
* Das wohltemperierte Klavier, vol 1
* Giovanni Bononcini – Divertimenti da camera
* François Couperin – Pièces de clavecin, Book 3
* Jan Dismas Zelenka – Trio Sonatas (6) for 2 Oboes, Bassoon and Basso Continuo

## Opera

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* Carlo Arrigoni – La vedova
* Baldassare Galuppi – La fede nell'incostanza ossia gli amici rivali
* Nicola Porpora – Gli Orti Esperidi (libretto by Metastasio)
* Leonardo Vinci – Le Zite 'n Calera
* Giovanni Bononcini \- Griselda

## Births

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* January 18 – Antonio Rodríguez de Hita, composer (d. 1787)
* January 28 – Johann Ernst Bach II, composer (d. 1777)
* June 30 – Jiří Antonín Benda, composer (d. 1795)
* October 2 – Leopold Widhalm, luthier
* December 3 – Hryhorii Skovoroda, poet, philosopher and composer (d. 1794)
* probable – Francis Hutcheson, songwriter (died 1773)

## Deaths

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* April 16 – Johann Jacob Bach, musician and composer (b. 1682)
* June 5 – Johann Kuhnau, composer (born 1660)
* July 11 – Johann Joseph Vilsmayr, violinist and composer (b. 1663)
* November 24 – Johann Adam Reincken, organist (born 1623)
* date unknown – Antonio Tarsia, composer (b. 1643)

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