1715 in music

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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

• Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Englische Suiten
  • Cantata 31 Der Himmel lacht die Erde jubilert
• François Couperin Concerts royaux.
• Alessandro Scarlatti Stabat Mater.

Opera

• 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 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)
  • Francesco Zoppis, composer (died after 1781)

Deaths

• January 22 - Marc'Antonio Ziani, composer (born c.1653)
• February 3 – Gottfried Vopelius, composer
• 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