Events

• Alessandro Scarlatti returns to Naples from Venice.
• Johann Sebastian Bach becomes organist and concert-master at the Weimar court.
• Arcangelo Corelli returns to Rome and joins the household of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni.

Published popular music

• Lyra Davidica (hymns)
• Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Classical Music

• George Frederic Handel - La Resurrezione (The Resurrection) (oratorio)

Opera

• André Campra - Hippodamie
• George Frideric Handel
  • Daphne
  • Florindo
• Nicola Porpora - Aggripina

Births

• January 26 - William Hayes , composer
• February 8 - Václav Jan Kopřiva, composer (died 1789)
• February 11 - Egidio Romualdo Duni, composer of opera comique (d. 1775)
• February 25 - Felix Benda, composer (died 1768)
• April 6 - Georg Reutter, composer of church music (died 1772)
• June 19 - Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, composer (died 1763)
• November 4 - Robert Praelisauer, composer
• December 4 - Marianus Konigsperger, composer
• date unknown
  • Lavinia Fenton, actress, the original Polly Peachum (died 1760)
  • Johann Adolph Scheibe, composer (died 1776)
  • William Tuckey, composer (died 1781)

Deaths

• January 23 - Thomas Bullis, composer
• May 27 - Jacques Danican Philidor, composer
• August 4 - Vincenzo De Grandis, composer
• October 1 - John Blow, composer (born 1649)
• date unknown
  • Moll Davis, singer (born c. 1648)
  • Giovanni Battista Draghi, composer and keyboardist (born c.1640)
  • Johannes Kelpius, mystic and musician (born 1673)
  • Thomas Pereira, musician (born 1645)
  • Bernard Smith, organ maker (born c. 1630)