1696 in music

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The year 1696 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • Giacomo Antonio Perti becomes maestro di cappella to S Petronio, Bologna, where he remains for the rest of his life.
  • Francesco Antonio Pistocchi becomes maestro di cappella to the Duke of Ansbach.

    Classical music

    • Henrico Albicastro – Il giardino armonico sacro-profano
    • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber – Harmonia artificioso-ariosa
    • John Blow – Ode on the Death of Purcell
    • Dieterich Buxtehude – VII suonate, op. 2
    • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Ego mater agnitionis, H.371
    • Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer – Les pièces de clavessin, Op.2
    • Johann Kuhnau – Frische Klavierfrüchte
    • Isabella Leonarda – Messe e motetti concertate, Op.18
    • Nicola Matteis – A Collection of New Songs[1]
    • Franz Xaver Murschhauser – Octi-tonium novum organicum, octo tonis ecclesiasticis, ad Psalmos, & magnificat
    • Henry Purcell – A Choice Collection of Lessons for the Harpsichord or Spinnet (published posthumously)
    • Johann Paul von Westhoff – Six Partitas for solo violin

    Opera

    • Tomaso Albinoni – Zenone, Imperator d'Oriente
    • Giuseppe Aldrovandini – Dafni
    • Giovanni Bononcini – Il Trionfo di Camilla
    • Sebastián Durón – Salir el amor del mundo
    • John Eccles – The Loves of Mars and Venus
    • Marin Marais – Ariane et Bacchus
    • Bernardo Pasquini – Radamisto
    • Daniel Purcell – Brutus of Alba
    • Alessandro Scarlatti – La Didone delirante, R.344.30

    Births

    • February 10 – Johann Melchior Molter, violinist and composer (died 1765)
    • February 17 – Ernst Gottlieb Baron, lutenist and composer (died 1760)
    • May 23 – Johann Caspar Vogler, organist and composer (died 1763)
    • August 12 – Maurice Greene, composer (died 1725)
    • November 11 – Andrea Zani, violinist and composer (died 1757)
    • December 25 – Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, amateur composer (died 1715)
    • date unknown
      • Pierre Février, organist, harpsichordist and composer (died 1760)
      • Marged ferch Ifan, harpist and wrestler (died 1793)

    Deaths

    • April 21 – Jacques Gallot, composer
    • May 31 – Heinrich Schwemmer, composer and music teacher (born 1621)
    • June 29 – Michel Lambert, French composer of airs (born 1610)[2]
    • July 25 – Clamor Heinrich Abel, German composer (born 1634)

    References

    1. ↑ Fenlon, Iain (1999). Early Music History: Volume 17: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music. Cambridge University Press. p. 199. ISBN 9780521622424.
    2. ↑ Don, Randel (1996). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard University Press. p. 479. ISBN 9780674372993.
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