1685 in music

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The year 1685 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • The father of Georg Philipp Telemann dies, leaving his widow to bring up the children.
  • Antonio Stradivari makes the ex Arma Senkrah violin.
  • John Blow is recorded among the private musicians of King James II of England.
  • The 17-year-old François Couperin becomes organist at St Gervais in Paris.
  • Giovanni Legrenzi becomes maestro di cappella at St Mark's Cathedral, Venice.

    Classical music

    • Giovanni Bononcini – 12 Sinfonie, Op. 3
    • Cristofaro Caresana – Dixit Dominus
    • Arcangelo Corelli – Op. 2, 12 trio sonatas
    • Le Sieur de Machy – Pieces de Violle
    • Nicolas Gigault – Livre de musique pour l'orgue
    • Nicolas Lebègue – Livre d'orgue No.3
    • Jean-Baptiste Lully
      • Idylle sur la Paix, LWV 68
      • Ballet du temple de la paix, LWV 69
    • Johann Christoph Pezel – Fünfstimmige blasende Music
    • Henry Purcell – My heart is inditing (anthem), first performed at the coronation of King James II[1]
    • Alessandro Scarlatti – Il martirio di S. Teodosia

    Opera

    • John Blow – Venus and Adonis
    • Marc-Antoine Charpentier
      • La Couronne de fleurs
      • Les arts florissants
    • Giuseppe Fabrini – La Genefieva
    • Jean-Baptiste Lully – Roland

    Births

    • March 5 (N.S.) – George Frideric Handel, composer (died 1759)
    • March 31 (NS) – Johann Sebastian Bach, composer (died 1750)
    • June 23 (NS?) – Antonio Maria Bernacchi, castrato singer (died 1756)
    • June 30 – John Gay, poet, author of The Beggar's Opera (died 1732)
    • September 20 – Giuseppe Matteo Alberti, composer and violinist (died 1751)
    • October 26 – Domenico Scarlatti, composer (died 1757)
    • December 12 – Lodovico Giustini, early composer for piano (died 1743)

    Deaths

    • March 31 – Juan Hidalgo de Polanco, harpist and composer (born 1614)
    • July 4 or (5) – George Jeffreys, composer (born c.1610)
    • September 22 – Ignazio Albertini, Italian musician and composer (born 1644)
    • date unknown
      • Jean-Baptiste Boësset, French composer (born 1614)
      • Yatsuhashi Kengyo, Japanese musician and composer (born 1614)

    References

    1. ↑ Palisca, Claude V. (1991) [1968]. Baroque Music. Prentice Hall History of Music (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. p. 308. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.
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