1698 in music

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The year 1698 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • Henry Purcell's widow publishes the first volume of Orpheus Britannicus.
  • Antonio Stradivari makes the "Cabriac" violin.

    Classical music

    • Johann Sebastian Bach – Ach, was soll ich Sünder machen, BWV 770
    • Sébastien de Brossard – Retribue servo tuo, SdB.004
    • Antonio Caldara – Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo
    • Marc-Antoine Charpentier
      • Missa Assumpta est Maria, H.11
      • In nativitatem Domini canticum, H.421
    • Daniel Danielis – Cœleste Convivium del Signor (Coll. Brossard)
    • Michel Richard Delalande – Regina Coeli, S.53
    • Sebastian Knüpfer – Ecce quam bonum et quam iucundum (Psalm 133), for 5 solo voices, 5-part choir, 2 violins, 3 violas, bassoon, and basso continuo
    • Johann Krieger – Anmuthige Clavier-Übung (Nuremberg), a collection of 25 pieces for organ, including ricercars, fugues, preludes, etc.
    • August Kühnel – 14 Sonate ò Partite ad una o due viole da gamba, con il basso continuo (Kassel)
    • Isabella Leonarda – Salmi concertati a 4 voci con strumenti, Op. 19 (Bologna)
    • Christian Liebe – O Heiland aller Welt ich muß dir sehnlich klagen
    • Georg Muffat – Florilegium Secundum (Passau)[1]
    • Daniel Purcell – 6 Sonatas or Solos
    • Johann Abraham Schmierer – Zodiaci musici
    • Giuseppe Torelli – Concerti musicali a quattro op.6

    Opera

    • Richard Leveridge – The Island Princess
    • Luigi Manza – Tito Manlio; Partenope
    • Alessandro Scarlatti
      • La donna ancora è fedele
      • Il prigioniero fortunato, R.346.36

    Births

    • January 3 – Metastasio, born Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, poet and opera librettist (died 1782)
    • July 24 – František Jiránek, composer (died 1778)
    • September 8 – François Francoeur, violinist and composer (died 1787)
    • date unknown
      • Pietro Auletta, composer (died 1771)
      • Antonio Bioni, composer (died 1739)
      • Riccardo Broschi, composer (died 1756)
      • Célestin Harst, priest, organist and composer (died 1778)
    • probable – Giovanni Battista Sammartini, composer (died 1775)

    Deaths

    • date unknown – Thomas Connellan, composer and harpist (born c.1640)
    • probable – Nicola Matteis, violinist and composer (born c.1670)

    References

    1. ↑ Cross, Jennifer (1979). Readings in the History of Music in Performance. Indiana University Press. p. 297. ISBN 9780253144959.
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