title: 1702 in music
text: # 1702 in music
  
  The year 1702 in music involved some significant events.
  
  ## Events
  
  * 13 March – A month after commencing his university education, 17-year-old George Frideric Handel accepts the position of organist at Halle Cathedral, replacing J. C. Leporin, for whom he had acted as assistant.
  * Johann Sebastian Bach concludes his musical education at St. Michael's School in Lüneburg.
  * Georg Philipp Telemann becomes director of Leipzig opera, and founds Leipzig Collegium Musicum.
  * Alessandro Scarlatti leaves Naples and seeks the patronage of Prince Ferdinando de' Medici.
  * Michel de Saint-Lambert publishes Les principes du clavecin.
  * Probable year – German Baroque composer Jakob Greber moves from Italy to London – accompanied by his mistress, operatic soprano Margherita de L'Épine – where he will remain for three years composing incidental music for plays and arias for L'Épine, including those for this year's première of Nicholas Rowe's play The Fair Penitent.
  
  ## Published popular music
  
  * Tavern Bilkers, burlesque by John Weaver
  
  ## Classical music
  
  * Giovanni Henrico Albicastro – Sonate a violino solo col basso continuo
  * Tomaso Albinoni
     * Lontananza crudel, mi squarci il core, T.204.04 (Op. 4)
     * Poiché al vago seren di due pupille, T.205
  * Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns – St John Passion (formerly attributed to Reinhard Keiser)
  * Marc-Antoine Charpentier
     * Extremum Dei judicium, H.401
     * Judicium Salomonis, performed for the opening of the French parliament
  * François Couperin
     * Quatre versets d'un motet composé et chanté par ordre du roy
     * Qui dat nivem sicut lanam
  * Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
     * Ariadne musica
     * Tafelmusik
  * Louis Marchand – Pièces de clavecin, Livre 1
  * James Paisible
     * 6 Sonatas of Two Parts
     * Airs for the play King Edward the Third
     * Airs for the comedy She Would and She Would Not
  * Alessandro Scarlatti – Mottetti sacri ad una, due, trè, e quattro voci con violini
  * Francesco Scarlatti – Dixit dominus (Psalm 110)
  * Johannes Schenck – Le nymphe di Rheno, 12 sonatas and suites for 2 violas da gamba, Op. 8 (Amsterdam)
  * Johann Speth – Ars Magna Consoni et Dissoni
  * Francisco Valls – Missa Scala Aretina
  * Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow – Danksaget dem Vater
  
  ## Opera
  
  * François Bouvard – Médus
  * André Campra – Tancrède
  * Pietro Torri – Torneo
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 6 – José de Nebra, composer (died 1768)
  * February 7 – Carl August Thielo, composer (died 1763)
  * February 27 – Johann Valentin Görner, composer (died 1762)
  * March 5 – Michael Mietke II, German harpsichord maker (died 1754)
  * March 13 – Burkat Shudi, Swiss-born harpsichord maker (died 1773)
  * March 27 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer (died 1762)
  * July 22 – Alessandro Besozzi, oboist and composer (died 1793)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * July 6 – Nicolas Lebègue, French harpsichordist, composer and organist (born 1632)
  * July 16 – Étienne Loulié, musician, pedagogue and musical theorist (born 1654)
  * September 17 – Olaus Rudbeck, composer (born 1630)
  * December – José de Cascante, organist and composer (born 1646)
  