1715 in music

The year 1715 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• September – Presumed staging of first Three Choirs Festival in England.
• Comédie en vaudeville is staged for the first time in Paris.
• Francesco Geminiani performs at the court of King George I of Great Britain, accompanied by Handel.

Classical music

• Tomaso Albinoni – 12 Concerti a cinque, Op. 7
• Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Der Himmel lacht! die Erde jubiliert, BWV 31
  • Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn, BWV 132
  • Nur jedem das Seine, BWV 163
  • Ach! ich sehe, itzt, da ich zur Hochzeit gehe, BWV 162
  • O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad, BWV 165
  • Barmherziges Herze der ewigen Liebe, BWV 185
  • Valet will ich dir geben, BWV 736
  • English Suites (speculated year of composition) BWV 806–811
  • Suite in F minor, BWV 823
  • Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 894
  • Fugue in A major, BWV 949
• Francesco Antonio Bonporti – Concerti a quattro, Op. 11
• Antonio Caldara – Motetti a due e tre voci, Op. 4
• François Couperin Concerts royaux
• George Frideric Handel
  • Brockes-Passion, HWV 48
  • Concerto Grosso in B-flat major, HWV 313
  • Concerto Grosso in D minor, HWV 316
  • Concerto Grosso in D major, HWV 317
• Jacques Hotteterre – Pièces pour la flûte traversiere, Op. 5
• Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre – Cantates Françoises, Livre 3
• Jean-Baptiste Loeillet – 12 Recorder Sonatas, Op. 3
• Alessandro Marcello – Oboe Concerto in D minor, S.Z799
• Gaetano Meneghetti – Violin Concerto in A major
• James Paisible – The Friendship, Mr. Isaac's new dance for the year 1715...
• Jean-Philippe Rameau – Thétis, RCT 28
• Johann Ernst Prinz von Sachsen-Weimar – Violin Concerto in G major
• Alessandro Scarlatti
  • Sinfonie di concerto grosso
  • Stabat Mater.
• Johann Christian Schickhardt – 6 Concertos for 4 Recorders and Continuo, Op. 19
• Georg Philipp Telemann
  • 6 Sonates à violon seul accompagné par le clavessin
  • Sonata à 4, TWV 43:a5
• Carlo Tessarini – 12 Concerti a cinque, Op. 1
• Antonio Vivaldi
  • Violin Concerto in A major, RV 345
  • Violin Concerto in B-flat major, RV 363
• John Walsh (pub.) – The Bird Fancyer's Delight
• Jan Dismas Zelenka – Capriccio in D major, ZWV 182

Opera

• Giovanni Bononcini – Astarto
• George Frideric Handel – Amadigi di Gaula
• Johann Augustin Kobelius – Der unschuldig verdammte Heinrich, Fürst von Wallis
• Giuseppe Maria Orlandini – Bacocco e Serpilla
• Alessandro Scarlatti – Il Tigrane
• Domenico Scarlatti – La Dirindina
• Antonio Vivaldi – Nerone Fatto Cesare

Births

• January 12 – Jacques Duphly, composer (died 1789)
• January 29 – Georg Christoph Wagenseil, composer (died 1777)
• April 11 – John Alcock, composer
• April 19 – James Nares, composer (died 1783)
• April 23 – Johann Friedrich Doles, composer (died 1797)
• April 28 – Franz Sparry, composer (died 1767)
• May 11
  • Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, organist and son of Johann Sebastian Bach (died 1739)
  • Ignazio Fiorillo, composer (died 1787)
• November 10 – Johann August Landvoigt, librettist and musician (died 1766)
• November 16 – Girolamo Abos, composer (died 1760)
• December – Isabella Lampe, soprano and wife of John Frederick Lampe (died 1795)
• December 12 – Gennaro Manna, composer (died 1779)
• date unknown
  • Giovanni Battista Casali, musician (died 1792)
  • William Felton – (died 1769)
  • Francesco Zoppis, composer (died after 1781)

Deaths

• January 15 – Caspar Neumann, hymnist (born 1648)
• January 22 – Marc'Antonio Ziani, composer (born c.1653)
• February 3 – Gottfried Vopelius, composer
• June 20 – Angelo Olivieri, composer (born c. 1636)
• July 30 – Nahum Tate, hymn-writer and lyricist (born 1652)
• September 2 – Constantin Christian Dedekind, composer
• September 6 – Basilius Petritz, German composer and Kreuzkantor in Dresden (born 1647)
• October 6 – Melchior Hoffmann, composer
• date unknown
  • Antonio de Salazar, composer (born c.1650)
  • Diego Xaraba, Spanish organist and composer (born 1652)
• probable
  • Daniel Eberlin, composer (born 1647)
  • Vasily Polikarpovich Titov, Russian composer