1697 in music

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The year 1697 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • Antonio Stradivari makes the Castelbarco cello.
  • Giuseppe Torelli arrives at the court of Ansbach.
  • Daniel Purcell and Jeremiah Clarke collaborate on the music for Elkanah Settle's play, World in the Moon.
  • The Opéra du Quai au Foin in Brussels closes for the last time.

Publications

  • Guilio Cesare Arresti – 18 Sonate da organo di varii autori (includes work by Pietro Ziani, Giovanni Bassani, Giovanni Colonna, Bernardo Pasquini, and others, as well as Arresti himself)
  • Philipp Heinrich Erlebach – Harmonische Freude musicalischer Freunde
  • Aurelio Paolini – Suonate da camera a 3, Op. 1 (Venice: Giuseppe Sala)
  • Henry Purcell – Ten Sonata’s in Four Parts (trio sonatas), published posthumously in London (Nos. 1–4 composed c1678–79, Nos. 7–9 possibly in 1681–82, No. 10 possibly 1683–84)[1]
  • Giovanni Maria Ruggieri – 10 Suonate da Chiesa, Op.4
  • Daniel Speer – Grund-richtiger Unterricht der Musicalischen Kunst

Classical music

  • Jeremiah Clarke – The Duke of Glocester's March
  • François Couperin – Laudate pueri
  • Henri Dumont – Motets de Mr. Dumont a 4 parties
  • Johann Krieger
    • Sechs musicalische Partien
    • Uns ist ein Kind geboren
  • Carl Rosier – Sonata in C major, Kuckuckssonate
  • Johann Christoph Rothe – St Matthew Passion

Opera

  • Hendrik Anders – Min- en wijn-strijd
  • Antonio Caldara – La promessa sebata al primo
  • André Campra – L'Europe galante (opera-ballet)
  • Sebastiano Cherici – Ildegonda
  • Henri Desmarets – Venus et Adonis
  • André Cardinal Destouches – Issé
  • Louis de Lacoste – Aricie
  • Alessandro Scarlatti
    • La Caduta del Decemviri
    • L'Emireno, R.345.32

Theoretical writings

  • Johan Georg Ahlens musikalisches Sommer-Gespräche by Johann Georg Ahle, on cadences, rhetorical figures, and modes. Second part of Ahle's Musikalische Gespräche series of treatises in form of dialogues.

Births

  • January 1 – Johann Pfeiffer, violinist and composer (died 1761)
  • January 30 – Johann Joachim Quantz, flautist and composer (died 1773)
  • April 16 – Johann Gottlieb Görner, organist and composer (died 1778)
  • April 26 – Adam Falckenhagen, lutenist and composer (died 1754)
  • May 10 – Jean-Marie Leclair, violinist and composer (died 1764)
  • June 11 – Francesco Antonio Vallotti, organist, music theorist and composer (died 1780)
  • November 9 – Claudio Casciolini, composer (died 1760)
  • December 5 – Giuseppe de Majo, organist and composer (died 1771)
  • December 6 – Carlo Arrigoni, composer (died 1744)

Deaths

  • January 4 – Amalia Catharina, Countess of Erbach, poet and composer (born 1640)
  • January 6 – Carlo Mannelli, violinist, castrato and composer (born 1640)
  • March 23 – William Child, organist and composer (born 1606)
  • March 29 – Nicolaus Bruhns, organist and composer (born 1665)
  • May 29 – Giovanni Francesco Grossi, singer (born 1653)

References

  1. ↑ Peter Holman and Robert Thompson, "Purcell, §1:Henry Purcell (i)", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and Robert Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
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