1715 in music

See also: 1714 in music, other events of 1715, 1716 in music, list of years in music.

Events

• Vaudeville is staged for the first time in Paris.

Classical music

• English Suite No. 3 – Johann Sebastian Bach
• Concerts royaux – François Couperin
• Stabat Mater – Domenico Scarlatti

Opera

• Bacocco e Serpilla – Giuseppe Maria Orlandini
• Il Tigrane – Alessandro Scarlatti
• La Dirindina – Domenico Scarlatti
• Nerone Fatto Cesare – Antonio Vivaldi

Births

• January 12 – Jacques Duphly, composer
• January 15 – Georg Wagenzeil, pianist and composer
• January 27 – Vaclav Kalous, composer
• March 19 – Charles-Joseph van Helmont, composer
• April 11 – John Alcock, composer
• April 17 – Johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht, composer
• April 19 – James Nares, composer
• April 23 – Johann Friedrich Doles, composer
• April 28 – Franz Sparry, composer
• May 5 – Daniel Dal Barba, composer
• May 11 – Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, organist and son of Johann Sebastian Bach
• June 2 – Herman-François Delange, composer
• November 16 – Girolamo Abos, composer
• December 9 – Georg Gottfried Petri, composer
• December 12 – Gennaro Manna, composer

Deaths

• February 3 – Gottfried Vopelius, composer
• September 2 – Constantin Christian Dedekind, composer