1690 in music

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The year 1690 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • Invention of the clarinet (approximate)[1]
  • Georg Muffat becomes Kapellmeister to the Bishop of Passau.
  • "Captain Johnson's Last Farewell"[2]

Classical music

  • Giovanni Battista Bassani – Armonici entusiasmi di Davide, Op. 9 (Venice)
  • Giovanni Bononcini
    • Chi d'Amor tra le catene
    • La Maddalena a'piedi di Cristo
  • Jacques Boyvin – Livre d'orgue I, Ton 1–8
  • Nicolaus Bruhns – Mein Hertz ist Bereit
  • Dietrich Buxtehude
    • Du Lebensfürst Herr Jesu Christ, BuxWV 22
    • Jubilate Domino, BuxWV 64
    • Quemadmodum desiderat cervus, BuxWV 92
    • Missa brevis, BuxWV 114
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier
    • Messe pour Mr Mauroy, H.6
    • Tenebrae Responsories H.127–133
    • Leçon de ténèbres du Mercredi saint, H.135, 138
    • Leçon de ténèbres du Jeudi saint, H.136, 139
    • Leçon de ténèbres du Vendredi saint, H.137, 140
    • In honorem Sancti Xaverij canticum, H.355
    • In nativitatem Domini canticum, H.416
    • Symphonie à 3 flûtes, H.529
    • Commencement d’ouverture, H.546
  • François Couperin – La Steinquerque
  • Gilles Jullien – Premier Livre d'Orgue
  • Johann Kehnau – Bone Jesu, care Jesu
  • Georg Muffat – Apparatus Musico-Organisticus
  • Giovanni Domenico Partenio – Motets for two and three voices, Op. 1 (Venice: Giuseppe Sala)
  • Francesco Passarini – Misse brevi for eight voices and organ continuo, Op. 4 (Bologna: Pier Maria Monti)
  • Henry Purcell
    • music for The Tempest
    • music for Amphitryon, Z.572
  • Giuseppe Torelli
    • Trumpet Sonata in D major, G.1
    • Sinfonia in D major, G.2
  • Jean Veillot – Motets

Opera

  • Giuseppe Boniventi – Il gran Macedone
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Le Jugement de Paris
  • Louis Lully – Orphée
  • Henry Purcell – Dioclesian, Z.627
  • Alessandro Scarlatti
    • La Rosaura
    • La Statira

Theoretical writings

  • Kurze doch deutliche Anleitung zu der lieblich- und löblichen Singekunst by Johann Georg Ahle, an enlarged and revised version of Johann Rudolf Ahle's famous singing manual, Brevis et perspicua introductio. A second edition was published in 1704.
  • Traité d’accompagnement pour le théorbe et le clavecin by Denis Delair

Births

  • February 1 – Francesco Maria Veracini, violinist and composer (died 1768)[3]
  • June 11 – Giovanni Antonio Giay, composer (died 1764)
  • September 15 – Ignazio Prota, composer and music teacher (died 1748)
  • November 22 – François Colin de Blamont, composer (died 1760)
  • November 24 (baptized) – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, organist, harpsichordist and composer (died 1750)[4]
  • date unknown
    • Francesco Barsanti, composer, recorder & oboe virtuoso; born Lucca, Toscany (IT). (Died 1775)
    • Johann Tobias Krebs, organist and composer (died 1762)
  • probable
    • Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, composer and violinist (died 1758)
    • Senesino, castrato singer (died 1756)

Deaths

  • May 27 – Giovanni Legrenzi, composer (born 1626)
  • July 10 – Domenico Gabrielli, cellist and composer (born c.1651)
  • date unknown – Gustaf Düben, organist (born 1628)

References

  1. ↑ Ramon J. Kireilis (1964). "A History of the Clarinet and its Music (thesis)" (PDF). Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  2. ↑ "Capt. Johnsons last Farewel". English Broadside Ballad. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  3. ↑ Philip H. Highfill; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (1993). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660–1800: Tibbett to M. West. SIU Press. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-8093-1802-5.
  4. ↑ Karl Krueger (1973). The Musical Heritage of the United States: The Unknown Portion. Society for the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage.
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