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The year 1696 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • Giacomo Antonio Perti becomes maestro di cappella to S Petronio, Bologna, where he remains for the rest of his life.
  • Francesco Antonio Pistocchi becomes maestro di cappella to the Duke of Ansbach.

Classical music

  • Henrico Albicastro — Il giardino armonico sacro-profano
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber — Harmonia artificioso-ariosa
  • John Blow — Ode on the Death of Purcell
  • Dieterich Buxtehude — VII suonate, op. 2
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier — Ego mater agnitionis, H.371
  • Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer — Les pièces de clavessin, Op.2
  • Johann Kuhnau — Frische Klavierfrüchte
  • Isabella Leonarda — Messe e motetti concertate, Op.18
  • Nicola Matteis — A Collection of New Songs
  • Franz Xaver Murschhauser — Octi-tonium novum organicum, octo tonis ecclesiasticis, ad Psalmos, & magnificat
  • Henry Purcell — A Choice Collection of Lessons for the Harpsichord or Spinnet (published posthumously)
  • Johann Paul von Westhoff — Six Partitas for solo violin

Opera

  • Tomaso Albinoni — Zenone, Imperator d'Oriente
  • Giuseppe Aldrovandini — Dafni
  • Giovanni Bononcini — Il Trionfo di Camilla
  • Sebastián Durón — Salir el amor del mundo
  • John Eccles — The Loves of Mars and Venus
  • Marin Marais — Ariane et Bacchus
  • Bernardo Pasquini — Radamisto
  • Daniel Purcell — Brutus of Alba
  • Alessandro Scarlatti — La Didone delirante, R.344.30

Births

  • February 10 — Johann Melchior Molter, violinist and composer (died 1765)
  • February 17 — Ernst Gottlieb Baron, lutenist and composer (died 1760)
  • March 21 — Pierre Février, organist, harpsichordist and composer (died 1760)
  • May 23 — Johann Caspar Vogler, organist and composer (died 1763)
  • August 12 — Maurice Greene, composer (died 1725)
  • November 11 — Andrea Zani, violinist and composer (died 1757)
  • December 25 — Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, amateur composer (died 1715)
  • date unknown
  • Marged ferch Ifan, harpist and wrestler (died 1793)

Deaths

  • April 21 — Jacques Gallot, composer
  • May 31 — Heinrich Schwemmer, composer and music teacher (born 1621)
  • June 29 — Michel Lambert, French composer of airs (born 1610)
  • July 25 — Clamor Heinrich Abel, German composer (born 1634)

References