title: 1704 in music
text: # 1704 in music
  
  The year 1704 in music involved some significant events.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Johann Christoph Pepusch arrives in London.
  * Following her husband's death, Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre begins hosting concerts in her home.
  * Antonio Vivaldi becomes general superintendent of music at the Ospedale della Pietà, Venice.
  * Johann Jacob Bach becomes an oboist in the army of King Charles XII of Sweden, inspiring Johann Sebastian to write a Capriccio on the Absence of His Most Beloved Brother.
  * During a performance of Johann Mattheson's opera, Cleopatra, the composer almost kills his friend, Georg Frideric Handel, in a violent quarrel.
  
  ## Classical music
  
  * Henricus Albicastro – [12] Concerti, Op.7
  * Attilo Ariosti – La madre dei Maccabei
  * Johann Sebastian Bach
     * Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150 (or 1707)
     * Toccata and Fugue D Minor BWV 565 (poss.)
     * Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BWV 742
     * Sonata in D major, BWV 963
     * Capriccio in B-flat major, BWV 992
  * Antonio Caldara – Il trionfo dell'innocenza (Second edition)
  * Louis-Nicolas Clérambault – Livre de pièces de clavecin
  * François Couperin – 7 Versets du motet composé de l'ordre du roy, 1704
  * William Croft – 6 Sonatas of Two Parts
  * Michel Richard Delalande – Dominus regnavit, S.65
  * George Frideric Handel – Oboe Concerto in G minor, HWV 287
  * Reinhard Keiser – Der blutige und sterbende Jesus (by Christian Friedrich Hunold)
  * Michele Mascitti – [12] Sonate, Op.1
  * Jean-Baptiste Morin – Motets à une et deux voix, Livre I
  * James Paisible – Musick perform'd before Her Majesty and the new King of Spain
  * Alessandro Scarlatti
     * Perdono, Amor, perdono, H.554
     * S. Casimiro, re di Pononia
  * Johann Schenck – 2 Sonatas for 2 Viols
  * Giovanni Battista Tibaldi – 12 Trio Sonatas, Op.2
  
  ## Opera
  
  * Attilo Ariosti – I gloriosi presagi di Scipione Africano
  * Giovanni Bononcini
     * Il fiore delle eroine
     * Il ritorno di Giulio Cesare
  * Francesco Bartolomeo Conti – Alba Cornelia
  * Johann Mattheson – Die unglückselige Cleopatra
  * Carlo Francesco Pollarolo – Irene (revised by Domenico Scarlatti for performance at Naples).
  
  ## Births
  
  * May 7 – Carl Heinrich Graun, composer and singer (died 1759)
  * June 11 – Carlos Seixas, composer (died 1742)
  * October 2 – František Tůma, organist and composer (died 1774)
  * December 31 – Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, organist (died 1761)
  * probable – Claude Parisot, organ builder (died 1784)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * February 7 – Lady Mary Dering, composer (born 1629)
  * February 23 – Georg Muffat, composer (born 1653)
  * February 24 – Marc-Antoine Charpentier, composer (born 1643)
  * February 25 – Isabella Leonarda, composer of church music (born 1620)
  * April – Georg Christoph Strattner, friend and colleague of Bach at Lüneburg (born c. 1644)
  * May 3 – Heinrich Ignaz Biber, violinist and composer (born 1644)
  * September 6 – Francesco Provenzale, composer (born 1624)
  * November 2 – Johann Jakob Walther, violinist and composer (born 1650)
  * November 16 – Chikka Devaraja, ruler of Mysore, composer and music theorist (born 1673)
  * December 14
     * Selim I Giray, Crimean khan, also known as a poet and musician (born 1631)
     * Joseph-François Duché de Vancy, librettist (born 1668)
  