1702 in music

Events

• Johann Sebastian Bach leaves Lüneburg.
• Georg Philipp Telemann becomes director of Leipzig opera, and founds Leipzig Collegium Musicum.
• 17-year-old George Frideric Handel succeeds his teacher Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow as organist at Halle.
• Alessandro Scarlatti leaves Naples and seeks the patronage of Prince Ferdinando de' Medici.

  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
• *Poiché al vago seren di due pupille, T.205
• Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns – St John Passion
• 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 wou'd and She wou'd not
• Alessandro Scarlatti – Mottetti sacri ad una, due, trè, e quattro voci con violini
• Francesco Scarlatti – Dixit dominus
• Johannes Schenck – Le nymphe di Rheno, 12 sonatas and suites for 2 violas da gamba, Op. 8
• 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
• February 7 – Carl August Thielo, composer
• February 27 – Johann Valentin Görner, composer
• March 5 – Michael Mietke II, German harpsichord maker
• March 13 – Burkat Shudi, Swiss-born harpsichord maker
• March 27 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer
• July 22 – Alessandro Besozzi, oboist and composer
• date unknown – Antoine Gilis, composer

  Deaths

• July 6 – Nicolas Lebègue, French harpsichordist, composer and organist
• July 16 – Étienne Loulié, musician, pedagogue and musical theorist
• September 17 – Olaus Rudbeck, composer
• December – José de Cascante, organist and composer