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.
- Antonio Stradivari makes the Fleming violin.
Published popular music
Classical music
- Heinrich Biber â 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 â 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 â Ave Maria (I and II)
- Carlo Piazzi â Balletti, Op.2
- Henry Purcell â Suite for Strings, Z.770
- Alessandro Stradella â Il Barcheggio
Opera
- Domenico Freschi â Pompeo Magno in Cilicia
- Jean-Baptiste Lully â Le Triomphe de lâAmour (ballet)
- Agostino Steffani â Marco Aurelio
- Marc Antonio Ziani â La Flora (composition begun by Antonio Sartorio, who died during composition)
Publications
- Johann Wolfgang Franck â Geistliche Lieder (Compositions by Franck, Georg Böhm, and Peter Laurentius Wockenfuss)
- Andreas Werckmeister â Orgel-Probe (the first appearance of the tuning system known as the Werckmeister temperament)
Births
- January 20 â Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer (died 1732)
- March 14 â Georg Philipp Telemann, composer (died 1767)
- April 11 â Anne Danican Philidor, composer and concert organizer (died 1728)
- September 4 â Carl Heinrich Biber, composer (died 1749)
- September 28 â Johann Mattheson, composer (died 1764)
- December 14 â Giuseppe Valentini, violinist and composer (died 1753)
- date unknown â Giovanni Battista Reali, composer (died 1751)
Deaths
- May 25 â Pedro Calderón de la Barca, librettist (born 1600)
- June 27 â Ernst Christoph Homburg, librettist (born 1607)
- July 8 â Georg Neumark, hymnist (born 1621)
- October 22 â Benedetto Ferrari, composer (born c. 1603)
- date unknown â Francesco Corbetta, guitarist and composer (born c.1615)[1]
- date unknown â Benedetto Ferrari, opera composer (born c.1603)[2]