1709 in music

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The year 1709 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Johann Georg Pisendel leaves his post in the court orchestra of Ansbach to travel to Leipzig, meeting Johann Sebastian Bach en route.
• Antonio Stradivari makes the Viotti Stradivarius.

Published popular music

• "Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre"

Classical music

• William Babell – The Third Book of the Ladys Entertainment
• Johann Sebastian Bach – Fugue in A major on a Theme by Tomaso Albinoni, BWV 950 (approximate date)
• Louis-Antoine Dornel – Livre de simphonies contenant six suites en trio avec une sonate en quatuor
• Christoph Graupner – some 20 cantatas (see List of cantatas by Christoph Graupner)
• Michel Montéclair – Cantata: La Mort de Didon
• Giuseppe Torelli – Concerti Grossi, Op. 8: no 6 in G minor "Christmas Concerto", published posthumously

Opera

• Emanuele d'Astorga – Dafne
• Michele Falco – Lo Lollo pisciaportelle
• George Frideric Handel – Agrippina
• Giuseppe Maria Orlandini – L'odio e l'amore

Births

• January 1 – Johann Heinrich Hartmann Bätz, organ builder (died 1770)
• January 24 – Dom Bédos de Celles, Benedictine monk and pipe organ builder (died 1779)
• February 16 (baptised) – Charles Avison, composer and organist (died 1770)
• March 27 – William Flackton, viola player and composer (died 1798)
• April 14 – Charles Collé, songwriter and dramatist (died 1783)
• June 25 – Francesco Araja, composer (died 1762–1770)
• August 8 – Hermann Anton Gelinek, monk and musician (died 1779)
• October 25 – Georg Gebel (the younger), composer (died 1753)
• November 22 – Franz Benda, violinist and composer (died 1786)
• December 1 – František Xaver Richter, composer (died 1789)
• date unknown – Christoph Schaffrath, composer (died 1763)
• probable – Richard Charke, violinist, composer, operatic baritone, and playwright (died c. 1738)

Deaths

• February 8 – Giuseppe Torelli, violinist and composer (born 1658)
• July 17 – Pascal Collasse, composer (baptized 1649)
• date unknown
  • Cristofaro Caresana, operatic tenor, organist and composer (born c.1640)
  • Giovanni Grancino, luthier (born 1637)