The year 1718 in music involved some significant events. Events Antonio Vivaldi tours Italy. Handel succeeds Johann Christoph Pepusch as Kapellmeister to the Duke of Chandos. Johann Joachim Quantz settles in Dresden. 14-year-old Carlos Seixas succeeds his father as organist at Coimbra Cathedral. Classical music Attilio Ariosti – Recueil de pièces William Babell – The Harpsichord Master Improved Johann Sebastian Bach Lobet den Herrn, alle seine Heerscharen, BWV Anh.5 Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV Anh.77 Der Himmel dacht auf Anhalts Ruhm und Glück, BWV 66a Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht, BWV 134a Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten, BWV 202 Amore traditore, BWV 203 Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her, BWV 738 Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042 Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor, BWV 1043 Sinfonia in F major, BWV 1046a Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047 (likely composed) Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048 Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major, BWV 1066 Antonio Caldara – Il martirio di San Terenziano Pietro Castrucci – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1 Francesco Bartolomeo Conti – Amore in Tessaglia Jean-François Dandrieu – Les caractères de la guerre Johann Ernst Prinz von Sachsen-Weimar – 6 Violin Concertos, Op. 1 Christoph Graupner – 8 Partitas George Frideric Handel Esther (oratorio) HWV 50a Dolc' è pur d'amor l'affanno, HWV 109b L'aure grate, il fresco rio, HWV 121a As Pants the Hart, HWV 251b Francesco Manfredini – 12 Concertos, Op. 3 (inc. No. 12 in C major "Christmas Pastorale") Pierre Danican Philidor 4 Suites, Op. 2 3 Suites, Op. 3 Georg Philipp Telemann 6 Suonatine per violino e cembalo (TWV 41) 6 Trio Sonatas (TWV 42) Concerto for 2 Recorders, TWV 52:a2 Antonio Vivaldi – Qual in pioggia dorata, RV 686 Giovanni Zamboni – Sonate d'intavolatura di leuto, Op. 1 Jan Dismas Zelenka Capriccio in G major, ZWV 183 Capriccio in F major, ZWV 184 Collectaneorum Musicorum, Book II (compilation of Poglietti and Frescobaldi scores compiled during Zelenka's time in Vienna) Opera Toussaint Bertin de la Doué – Antonio Maria Bononcini – Griselda Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello – Tisbe, Premiered Jan. 26 in Stuttgart Antonio Caldara – Ifigenia in Aulide George Frideric Handel – Acis and Galatea HWV 49 Nicola Porpora – Berenice regina d'Egitto Domenico Natale Sarro – Arsace Alessandro Scarlatti Cambise, R.356.64 Il trionfo dell'onore Telemaco Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel – Diomedes (inc. aria "Bist