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1681 in music

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The year 1681 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • Arcangelo Corelli is employed by the electoral prince of Bavaria.
  • Giovanni Legrenzi becomes assistant maestro di cappella at St Mark's, Venice.
  • Jean-Baptiste Lully is appointed court secretary to King Louis XIV of France.
  • Antonio Stradivari makes the Fleming violin.

Classical music

  • Heinrich Biber – 8 Violin Sonatas, C 138-145
  • Dietrich Buxtehude
    • Afferte Domino gloriam honorem, BuxWV 2
    • Gen Himmel zu dem Vater mein, BuxWV 32
    • Kommst du Licht der Heiden, BuxWV 66
    • Sicut Mose, BuxWV 97
    • Ich habe Lust abzuscheiden, BuxWV 46
  • Giovanni Paolo Colonna
    • Motetti sacri, Op. 2
    • Motetti, Op.3
  • Arcangelo Corelli – Op. 1, 12 trio sonatas
  • Henry Dumont
    • Motets à II, III et IV parties pour voix et instruments avec la basse continue
    • Benedicite Deum cæli
    • Jubilate Deo
  • Johann Melchoir Gletle – Ave Maria (I and II)
  • Carlo Piazzi – Balletti, Op.2
  • Henry Purcell – Suite for Strings, Z.770
  • Alessandro Stradella – Il Barcheggio

[[Opera]]

  • Domenico Freschi – Pompeo Magno in Cilicia
  • Jean-Baptiste Lully – Le Triomphe de l’Amour (ballet)
  • Agostino Steffani – Marco Aurelio
  • Marc Antonio Ziani – La Flora (composition begun by Antonio Sartorio, who died during composition)

[[Publications]]

  • Johann Wolfgang Franck – Geistliche Lieder (Compositions by Franck, Georg Böhm, and Peter Laurentius Wockenfuss)
  • Andreas Werckmeister – Orgel-Probe (the first appearance of the tuning system known as the Werckmeister temperament)

Births

  • January 20 – Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer (died 1732)
  • March 14 – Georg Philipp Telemann, composer (died 1767)
  • April 11 – Anne Danican Philidor, composer and concert organizer (died 1728)
  • September 4 – Carl Heinrich Biber, composer (died 1749)
  • September 28 – Johann Mattheson, composer (died 1764)
  • December 14 – Giuseppe Valentini, violinist and composer (died 1753)
  • date unknown – Giovanni Battista Reali, composer (died 1751)

Deaths

  • May 25 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca, librettist (born 1600)
  • June 27 – Ernst Christoph Homburg, librettist (born 1607)
  • July 8 – Georg Neumark, hymnist (born 1621)
  • October 22 – Benedetto Ferrari, composer (born c. 1603)
  • date unknown – Francesco Corbetta, guitarist and composer (born c.1615)
  • date unknown – Benedetto Ferrari, opera composer (born c.1603)

References

References

  1. "Francesco Corbetta (1615-1681)".
  2. (2013). "Historical Dictionary of Opera". Scarecrow Press.
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