1699 in music

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The year 1699 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • February – Richard Leveridge, Daniel Purcell and Jeremiah Clarke collaborate on the music for an adaptation of Fletcher's The Island Princess.[1]
  • John Blow is appointed to the newly created post of Composer to the Chapel Royal in England.[2]
  • Antonio Caldara appointed maestro di cappella da chiesa e del teatro to Ferdinando Carlo, the last Gonzaga Duke of Mantua.[3]
  • Quirinus Blankenburg is appointed organist at the Nieuwe Kerk in The Hague (however, he only started working there in 1702 after the new organ was completed).

Classical music

  • Carlo Agostino Badia
    • Imeneo trionfante, serenata for the wedding of Joseph I and Wilhelmine Amalie of Braunschweig-Lüneburg
    • Tributi armonici, 12 chamber cantatas (published circa 1699)
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber – Sonata violino solo representativa
  • Giovanni Battista Brevi – La devotione canora: motetti, libro II, motets for voice and basso continuo
  • Antonio Caldara
    • Suonate da camera, op. 2; twelve trio sonatas
    • Cantate da camera a voce sola, op. 3; twelve cantatas
  • André Campra
    • Carnaval de Venise
    • Missa 'Ad majorem Dei gloriam'
    • Motets, Livre 2
  • Michel Richard Delalande – Confitebor tibi Domine in consilio, S.56
  • Rocco Greco – 31 sinfonie, 10 passacaglie, 11 brani strumentali
  • Nicolas de Grigny – Premier livre d'orgue, an organ Mass and hymn settings, comprising 42 pieces; second edition published in 1711
  • George Frideric Handel – Trio Sonata in G minor, HWV 387
  • Johann Pachelbel – Hexachordum Apollinis, six arias with variations for keyboard
  • Daniel Purcell – Ode for St Cecilia's Day, the second of the three such pieces by the composer
  • Alessandro Scarlatti – Clori mia, Clori bella, H.129

Publications

  • The first issue of Mercurius Musicus: or, the Monthly Collection of New Teaching Songs, one of the earliest planned periodicals of music scores, was published in London

Opera

  • Antonio Caldara – L'oracolo in sogno[3]
  • Carlo Agostino Badia – Il Narciso
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber – Trattenimento musicale del'ossequio di Salisburgo (large cantata; his last)
  • Francesco Gasparini – Mirena e Floro
  • Johann Mattheson – Die Plejades
  • Antonio Quintavalle, Antonio Caldara, and Antonio Pollarolo – L'oracolo in sogno
  • Alessandro Scarlatti – Gl'Inganni felici[4]

Theoretical writings

  • Johan Georg Ahlens musikalisches Herbst-Gespräche by Johann Georg Ahle, on consonance and dissonance. Third part of Ahle's Musikalische Gespräche series of treatises in form of dialogues.
  • Primi elementi di musica per li principianti by Giovanni Battista Brevi

Births

  • January 14 – Jakob Adlung, musician (died 1762)
  • February 14 – Tobias Henrich Schubart librettist for Georg Telemann (died 1747)
  • March 25 – Johann Adolph Hasse, composer (died 1783)
  • May 4 – Giacomo Francesco Milano Franco d'Aragona, composer (died 1780)
  • November 13 – Jan Zach, violinist, organist and composer (died 1773)
  • December 17 – Charles-Louis Mion, composer (died 1775)
  • December 23 – Joseph Gibbs, composer (died 1788)
  • date unknown
    • René de Galard de Béarn, Marquis de Brassac, soldier and amateur composer (died 1771)
    • Johann Friedrich Ruhe, composer (died 1776)

Deaths

  • June 1 – Jean Rousseau, viol player and composer (born 1644)[5]
  • April 11 – Friedrich Christian Bressand, librettist (born 1670)
  • October 20 – Friedrich Funcke, composer (born 1642)
  • December 30 – Pierre Robert, composer (born c.1618)
  • December 31 – Andreas Armsdorff, composer and organist
  • date unknown
    • Mario Agatea, singer, composer and instrument maker (born c.1623–28)
    • Isaac Blackwell, composer and organist
    • José Marín, composer (born 1619)
    • Charles Mouton, composer and lutenist (born 1617)
    • Pierre Robert, composer (born 1618)

References

  1. ↑ Kenny, Shirley Strum (1984). British Theatre and the Other Arts, 1660-1800. Associated University Presses. p. 109. ISBN 9780918016652.
  2. ↑ Macy, L. (ed.). "Blow, John". Grove Music Online. Archived from the original on 2008-05-16. Retrieved 2006-12-13.
  3. 1 2 Randel, Don Michael (1996). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard University Press. p. 129. ISBN 9780674372993.
  4. ↑ Scarlatti, Alessandro (1979). Massimo Puppieno (in Italian). Harvard University Press. p. 11. ISBN 9780674640313.
  5. ↑ Green, Robert A. (2001). "Rousseau, Jean (1644 - 1699), viol player, theorist, composer". Oxford index. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.23966. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
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