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The year1702 in music involved some significant events.

• 13 March – A month after commencing his university education, 17-year-oldGeorge Frideric Handel accepts the position of organist atHalle Cathedral, replacing J. C. Leporin, for whom he had acted as assistant.^[1]
• Johann Sebastian Bach concludes his musical education at St. Michael's School inLüneburg.
• Georg Philipp Telemann becomes director ofLeipzig opera, and founds LeipzigCollegium Musicum.
• Alessandro Scarlatti leavesNaples and seeks the patronage of Prince Ferdinando de' Medici.
• Michel de Saint-Lambert publishesLes principes du clavecin.
• Probable year – German Baroque composerJakob Greber moves from Italy to London – accompanied by his mistress, operatic sopranoMargherita de L'Épine – where he will remain for three years composing incidental music for plays and arias for L'Épine, including those for this year's première ofNicholas Rowe's playThe Fair Penitent.^[2]

• Tavern Bilkers, burlesque byJohn Weaver^{[citation needed]}

• Giovanni Henrico Albicastro –Sonate a violino solo col basso continuo
• Tomaso Albinoni
  • Lontananza crudel, mi squarci il core, T.204.04 (Op. 4)
  • Poiché al vago seren di due pupille, T.205
• Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns –St John Passion (formerly attributed toReinhard Keiser)
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier
  • Extremum Dei judicium, H.401
  • Judicium Salomonis, performed for the opening of the French parliament^[3]
• 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 playKing Edward the Third
  • Airs for the comedyShe Would and She Would Not
• Alessandro Scarlatti –Mottetti sacri ad una, due, trè, e quattro voci con violini
• Francesco Scarlatti –Dixit dominus (Psalm 110)
• Johannes Schenck –Le nymphe di Rheno, 12 sonatas and suites for 2 violas da gamba, Op. 8 (Amsterdam)
• Johann Speth –Ars Magna Consoni et Dissoni
• Francisco Valls –Missa Scala Aretina
• Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow –Danksaget dem Vater

• François Bouvard –Médus
• André Campra –Tancrède
• Pietro Torri –Torneo

• January 6 –José de Nebra, composer (died 1768)
• February 7 –Carl August Thielo, composer (died 1763)
• February 27 –Johann Valentin Görner, composer (died 1762)
• March 5 –Michael Mietke II, German harpsichord maker (died 1754)
• March 13 –Burkat Shudi, Swiss-born harpsichord maker (died 1773)
• March 27 –Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer (died 1762)
• July 22 –Alessandro Besozzi, oboist and composer (died 1793)

• July 6 –Nicolas Lebègue, French harpsichordist, composer and organist (born1632)
• July 16 –Étienne Loulié, musician, pedagogue and musical theorist (born1654)
• September 17 –Olaus Rudbeck, composer (born1630)
• December –José de Cascante, organist and composer (born1646)

• 1702 in music
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