The year 1711 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• February 24 – The London premiere of Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage, at the Queen's Theatre, Haymarket. ^[1] This is the first of at least 25 operas by Handel that will appear by 1739. John Walsh becomes Handel's regular printer beginning with the publication of Rinaldo.
• April 3 – Possible premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Mark Passion pastiche at the chapel of Wilhelmsburg Castle (two movements by Bach).
• Invention of the tuning fork by John Shore.

Classical music

• William Babell – Toccata No.6
• Giovanni Maria Bononcini – Idol mio, bel tesoro
• Louis-Antoine Dornel – 8 Violin Sonatas and 4 Flute Suites, Op. 2
• Sebastián Durón – Veneno es de Amor la envidia
• Christoph Graupner
  • Furcht und Zagen, GWV 1102/11b
  • Angenehmes Wasserbad, GWV 1104/11c
  • Reiner Geist lass doch mein Herz, GWV 1138/11
  • Ach Gott wie manches Herzeleid, GWV 1142/11
  • Angst und Jammer, GWV 1145/11
• George Frideric Handel
  • Siete rose rugiadose, HWV 162
  • Splenda l'alba in oriente, HWV 166
  • Oboe Sonata in F major, HWV 363a
  • Sonata for oboe in C minor, HWV 366
• Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre – Cantates françaises sur des sujets tirés de l’écriture, Livre II
• Barbara Kluntz – Choral Music Buch
• Leo Leonardo – Splende più dell'usato
• Francesco Manfredini – Concerto for 2 Trumpets in D Major
• Marin Marais – Pièces de Viole, Book 3
• Michele Mascitti – 14 Sonatas, Op. 4
• Alessandro Scarlatti – Miserere
• Jean-Baptiste Stuck – Les Bains de Tomery
• Joseph Valette de Montigny – Motets I
• Francesco Mario Veracini – Concerto for eight instruments in D major
• Antonio Vivaldi – L'Estro armonico (Op. 3), published in Amsterdam

Opera

• Sebastián Durón – Las nuevas armas de amor
• Johann Friedrich Fasch – Clomire
• George Frideric Handel – Rinaldo
• Reinhard Keiser – Croesus
• Nicola Porpora – Flavio Anicio Olibrio

Births

• January 12 – Gaetano Latilla, opera composer (died 1788)
• January 29 – Giuseppe Bonno, composer (died 1788)
• April 22 – Paul II Anton, Prince Esterházy, patron of music (died 1762)
• June 23 – Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, luthier (died 1786)
• July 26 – Lorenz Christoph Mizler, writer on music (died 1778)
• September 11 – William Boyce, composer (died 1779)
• September 18 – Ignaz Holzbauer, composer (died 1783)
• December 25 – Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, violinist and composer (died 1772)
• date unknown
  • Davide Perez, opera composer (died 1778)
  • John Francis Wade, hymnist (died 1786)
• probable – Panna Cinka, violinist (died 1772)

Deaths

• January 6 – Quirino Colombani, musician, composer and music teacher, died in hunting accident (born c. 1668)
• March 19 – Thomas Ken, hymn-writer (born 1637)
• September 3 – Élisabeth Sophie Chéron, artist and musician (born 1648)
• September 27 – Christian Geist, organist and composer (born c. 1650)
• November 3 – Ferdinand Tobias Richter, organist and composer (born 1651)
• December 18 – Louis de Deyster, artist and maker of musical instruments (born 1656)
• December 25 – Johann Nikolaus Hanff, organist and composer (born 1663)
• probable – Joannes Florentius a Kempis, Dutch composer (born 1635)

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