The year 1704 in music involved some significant events.
Events
Classical music
- Henricus Albicastro â [12] Concerti, Op.7
- Attilo Ariosti â La madre dei Maccabei
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150 (or 1707)
- Toccata and Fugue D Minor BWV 565 (poss.)
- Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BWV 742
- Sonata in D major, BWV 963
- Capriccio in B-flat major, BWV 992
- Antonio Caldara â Il trionfo dell'innocenza (Second edition)
- Louis-Nicolas Clérambault â Livre de pièces de clavecin
- François Couperin â 7 Versets du motet composé de l'ordre du roy, 1704
- William Croft â 6 Sonatas of Two Parts
- Michel Richard Delalande â Dominus regnavit, S.65
- George Frideric Handel â Oboe Concerto in G minor, HWV 287
Opera
Births
Deaths
- February 7 â Lady Mary Dering, composer (born 1629)
- February 23 â Georg Muffat, composer (born 1653)
- February 24 â Marc-Antoine Charpentier, composer (born 1643)
- February 25 â Isabella Leonarda, composer of church music (born 1620)
- April â Georg Christoph Strattner, friend and colleague of Bach at Lüneburg (born c. 1644)
- May 3 â Heinrich Ignaz Biber, violinist and composer (born 1644)
- September 6 â Francesco Provenzale, composer (born 1624)
- November 2 â Johann Jakob Walther, violinist and composer (born 1650)
- November 16 â Chikka Devaraja, ruler of Mysore, composer and music theorist (born 1673)
- December 14
- Selim I Giray, Crimean khan, also known as a poet and musician (born 1631)
- Joseph-François Duché de Vancy, librettist (born 1668)
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