1681 in music

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The year 1681 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • Arcangelo Corelli is employed by the electoral prince of Bavaria.
  • Giovanni Legrenzi becomes assistant maestro di cappella at St Mark's, Venice.
  • Jean-Baptiste Lully is appointed court secretary to King Louis XIV of France.
  • Antonio Stradivari makes the Fleming violin.

    Classical music

    • Heinrich Biber – 8 Violin Sonatas, C 138-145
    • Dietrich Buxtehude
      • Afferte Domino gloriam honorem, BuxWV 2
      • Gen Himmel zu dem Vater mein, BuxWV 32
      • Kommst du Licht der Heiden, BuxWV 66
      • Sicut Mose, BuxWV 97
      • Ich habe Lust abzuscheiden, BuxWV 46
    • Giovanni Paolo Colonna
      • Motetti sacri, Op. 2
      • Motetti, Op.3
    • Arcangelo Corelli – Op. 1, 12 trio sonatas
    • Henry Dumont
      • Motets à II, III et IV parties pour voix et instruments avec la basse continue
      • Benedicite Deum cæli
      • Jubilate Deo
    • Johann Melchoir Gletle – Ave Maria (I and II)
    • Carlo Piazzi – Balletti, Op.2
    • Henry Purcell – Suite for Strings, Z.770
    • Alessandro Stradella – Il Barcheggio

    Opera

    • Domenico Freschi – Pompeo Magno in Cilicia
    • Jean-Baptiste Lully – Le Triomphe de l’Amour (ballet)
    • Agostino Steffani – Marco Aurelio
    • Marc Antonio Ziani – La Flora (composition begun by Antonio Sartorio, who died during composition)

    Publications

    • Johann Wolfgang Franck – Geistliche Lieder (Compositions by Franck, Georg Böhm, and Peter Laurentius Wockenfuss)
    • Andreas Werckmeister – Orgel-Probe (the first appearance of the tuning system known as the Werckmeister temperament)

    Births

    • January 20 – Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer (died 1732)
    • March 14 – Georg Philipp Telemann, composer (died 1767)
    • April 11 – Anne Danican Philidor, composer and concert organizer (died 1728)
    • September 4 – Carl Heinrich Biber, composer (died 1749)
    • September 28 – Johann Mattheson, composer (died 1764)
    • December 14 – Giuseppe Valentini, violinist and composer (died 1753)
    • date unknown – Giovanni Battista Reali, composer (died 1751)

    Deaths

    • May 25 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca, librettist (born 1600)
    • June 27 – Ernst Christoph Homburg, librettist (born 1607)
    • July 8 – Georg Neumark, hymnist (born 1621)
    • October 22 – Benedetto Ferrari, composer (born c. 1603)
    • date unknown – Francesco Corbetta, guitarist and composer (born c.1615)[1]
    • date unknown – Benedetto Ferrari, opera composer (born c.1603)[2]

    References

    1. ↑ "Francesco Corbetta (1615-1681)". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
    2. ↑ Balthazar, Scott L. (2013). Historical Dictionary of Opera. Scarecrow Press. p. 387. ISBN 9780810879430.
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