1718 in music

The year 1718 in music involved some significant events.

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.

Classical music

• 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)

Opera

• Toussaint Bertin de la Doué – '
• 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