Events

Foundation of the Académie Royale de Danse by King Louis XIV of France.
Daniel Purcell becomes organist at St Andrew's Church, Holborn, London.
Francesco Bartolomeo Conti becomes court composer to the Habsburgs in Vienna.
Giuseppe Tartini claims to have had a dream in which he allows the devil to play his violin.
Antonio Stradivari makes the Gibson Stradivarius.

Publications

Giuseppe Matteo Alberti – 10 Violin Concertos, Op. 1
Francesco Antonio Bonporti – Invenzioni a violino solo, Op. 10 (Italian edition). Venice-Trento: Giovanni Parone.
Johann Heinrich Buttstett
- Musicalische Clavier-Kunst und Vorraths-Kammer
- Praeludium & Capricio
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault – Cantates françoises, Book 2 (inc. Léandre et Héro, Alphée et Aréthuse, Pirame et Tisbé and Pigmalion)
François Couperin – Pièces de clavecin, book 1
William Croft – Musicus Apparatus Academicus
Louis-Antoine Dornel – Sonates en Trio, Op. 3
Johann Mattheson – Das neu-eröffnete Orchestre (Hamburg: Mattheson)
Jean-Féry Rebel – 12 Violin Sonatas
Johann Christian Schieferdecker – XII. Musicalische Concerte, bestehend aus etlichen Ouverturen und Suiten

Johann Sebastian Bach
- Gleichwie der Regen und Schnee vom Himmel fällt, BWV 18
- Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21
- Ich lasse dich nicht BWV Anh. 159
- Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd, BWV 208
- Organ Concerto in A minor, BWV 593
- Organ Concerto in C major, BWV 594
- Organ Concerto in C major, BWV 595 (based on Johann Ernst Prinz von Sachsen-Weimar Op.1)
- Organ Concerto in D minor, BWV 596
- Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV 601
- Puer natus in Bethlehem, BWV 603
- Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich, BWV 605
- Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her, BWV 606
- In dulci jubilo, BWV 608
- Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 610
- Helft mir Gottes Güte preisen, BWV 613
- Prelude in C minor, BWV 921
- 16 Konzerte nach verschiedenen Meistern, BWV 972–987
- Trio Sonata in F major, BWV 1040
- Canon in A minor, BWV 1073
- Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' ihn, BWV 1127
Antonio Caldara – Oratorio di S. Stefano, primo re dell'Ungheria
Christoph Graupner
- Wie bald hast du gelitten, GWV 1109/14
- Ich bin zwar Asch und Kot, GWV 1135/13
- Was Gott tut das ist wohlgetan, GWV 1153/13
George Frideric Handel
- Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV 74
- Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate
- As Pants the Hart, HWV 251a
Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre – La Musette, ou les Bergers de Suresne
James Paisible – The Pastorall. Mr. Isaac's new dance, made for Her Majesty's Birth Day, 1713...
Antonio Vivaldi – Beatus vir, RV 598

Francesco Feo – L'amor tirannico, ossia Zenobia
George Frideric Handel
- Teseo, HWV 9, Premiered January 10 in London
- Silla, HWV 10
Nicola Porpora – Basilio re d'oriente
Antonio Vivaldi
- Orlando furioso
- Ottone in villa, RV 729

January 7 – Giovanni Battista Locatelli, opera director (1785)
February 13 – Domènech Terradellas, composer (died 1751)
March – Giammaria Ortes, Venetian composer and polymath (d. 1790)
March 12 – Johann Adolph Hass, clavichord and harpsichord maker (died 1771)
April 7 – Nicola Sala, composer and music theorist (died 1801)
April 13 – Pierre Jélyotte, operatic tenor (died 1797)
October 3 – Antoine Dauvergne, violinist and composer (died 1797)
October 13 – Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer (died 1780)
October 24 – Marie Fel, opera singer (died 1794)
December 10 – Johann Nicolaus Mempel, musician (died 1747)
date unknown
- Johan Henrik Freithoff, violinist and composer (died 1767)
- Johannes Erasmus Iversen, composer (died 1755)
probable – Robert Bremner, music publisher (died 1789)