This article lists the most significant events and works of the year 1719 in music.
Events
Published popular music
Classical music
- Johann Sebastian Bach â Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (presumed date of original composition)
- Johann Joseph Fux â Gesù Cristo negato da Pietro
- Christoph Graupner â Ich bleibe Gott getreu, GWV 1106/19
- George Friedrich Handel
- Di godere ha speranza il mio core (Oh my dearest, my lovely creature), HWV 288-7
- Pièces àun & deux clavecins (published); Contains Keyboard Sonata in G major, HWV 579
- Johann David Heinichen â Diana sull'Elba (Serenade; premiered Sept. 18 in Paris)
- Jacques-Martin Hotteterre â L'Art de préluder sur la flûte traversière, Op. 7 (published in Paris)
- George Philipp Telemann
- Violin Concerto, TWV 51:B1 (composed Sept. 14)
- Machet die Tore weit, TWV 1:1074 (premiered Mar. 12 in Frankfurt)
- Antonio Vivaldi â 6 Concerti, Op.6 (RV 324, 259, 318, 216, 280, 239)
Opera
Births
Deaths
- January 19 â Joachim Tielke, German instrument-maker (born 1641)
- May â John Lenton, violinist, singer and composer
- June 11 â , composer (born 1661)
- July â Johann Valentin Meder, organist, singer and composer (born 1649)
- July 26 â , organist and composer (born 1675)
- July 28 (buried) â Arp Schnitger, organ builder (born 1648)
- date unknown
- Michael Mietke, maker of harpsichords and harps (born c.1656/1671)
- Juan de Navas, harpist and composer (born c.1650)
- André Raison, organist and composer (born 1650)
- probable
- Johann Speth, composer
- Francesco Antonio Urio, composer (born 1631)
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