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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.

Classical music

• William Babell - The Harpsichord Master Improved
• George Frideric Handel - Esther (oratorio)
• Francesco Manfredini - Concerti grossi, Op. 3: no 12 in C major "Christmas Concerto"

Opera

• Thomas Bertin de la Doué - Le Jugement de Paris
• Antonio Maria Bononcini - Astianatte and Griselda
• George Frideric Handel - Acis and Galatea
• Nicola Porpora - Berenice regina d'Egitto
• Alessandro Scarlatti
  • Il trionfo dell'onore
  • Telemaco
• Antonio Vivaldi - Scanderbeg

Births

• exact date unknown - Carl Heinrich Biber, composer and son of Heinrich Franz Biber

Deaths

• November 26 - Bernardo Sabadini, opera composer