1691 in music

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The year 1691 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • July – Johann Heinrich Buttstett succeeds Nicolaus Vetter as organist of the Predigerkirche in Erfurt.
  • "The Bachelor's Answer to the Helpless Maiden"[1]
  • "The Charming Regent's Wish"[2]

Classical music

  • Giovanni Battista Alveri – Mia Vita
  • John Blow – Ode for St Cecilia's Day[3]
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Marche de triomphe et air, H.547
  • Gottfried Finger – A Collection of Musick in Two Parts
  • Domenico Galli – Trattenimento musicale sopra il violoncello
  • Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre – Jeux à l’honneur de la Victoire
  • Bianca Maria Meda – Cari Musici (motet)
  • Françoise-Charlotte de Senneterre Ménétou – Airs sérieux
  • Henry Purcell
    • The Gordion Knot Untied, Z.597
    • The Old Bachelor, Z.607 (pub. 1697)

Publications

  • Andreas Werckmeister – Musicalische Temperatur

Opera

The following operas were composed:

  • Henry Purcell – King Arthur (with libretto by John Dryden)
  • Bernardo Sabadini – Diomede punito da Alcide
  • Agostino Steffani – Orlando generoso

Births

  • June 14 – Jan Francisci, organist and composer (died 1758)
  • December – Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch, organist and composer (died 1765)
  • date unknown – Francesco Feo, opera composer (died 1761)

Deaths

  • April 23 – Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, composer (born 1629)[4]
  • unknown date – Adriano Morsell, librettist (birth year unknown)

References

  1. ↑ "A New SONG, Call'd The Batchellor's Anſwer TO THE Helpleſs Maiden". English Broadside Ballad Archive. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  2. ↑ Pepys Library (Cambridge) (1978). Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Boydell & Brewer. p. 360. ISBN 978-0-85991-315-7.
  3. ↑ William Henry Husk (1857). An Account of the Musical Celebrations on St. Cecilia's Day: In the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. To which is Appended a Collection of Odes on St. Cecilia's Day. Bell and Daldy. p. 159.
  4. ↑ David Mason Greene (1985). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 148. ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6.
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