1685 in music
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The year 1685 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- The father of Georg Philipp Telemann dies, leaving his widow to bring up the children.
- Antonio Stradivari makes the ex Arma Senkrah violin.
- John Blow is recorded among the private musicians of King James II of England.
- The 17-year-old François Couperin becomes organist at St Gervais in Paris.
- Giovanni Legrenzi becomes maestro di cappella at St Mark's Cathedral, Venice.
Published popular music
Classical music
- Giovanni Bononcini â 12 Sinfonie, Op. 3
- Cristofaro Caresana â Dixit Dominus
- Arcangelo Corelli â Op. 2, 12 trio sonatas
- Le Sieur de Machy â Pieces de Violle
- Nicolas Gigault â Livre de musique pour l'orgue
- Nicolas Lebègue â Livre d'orgue No.3
- Jean-Baptiste Lully
- Idylle sur la Paix, LWV 68
- Ballet du temple de la paix, LWV 69
- Johann Christoph Pezel â Fünfstimmige blasende Music
- Henry Purcell â My heart is inditing (anthem), first performed at the coronation of King James II[1]
- Alessandro Scarlatti â Il martirio di S. Teodosia
Opera
- John Blow â Venus and Adonis
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- La Couronne de fleurs
- Les arts florissants
- Giuseppe Fabrini â La Genefieva
- Jean-Baptiste Lully â Roland
Births
- March 5 (N.S.) â George Frideric Handel, composer (died 1759)
- March 31 (NS) â Johann Sebastian Bach, composer (died 1750)
- June 23 (NS?) â Antonio Maria Bernacchi, castrato singer (died 1756)
- June 30 â John Gay, poet, author of The Beggar's Opera (died 1732)
- September 20 â Giuseppe Matteo Alberti, composer and violinist (died 1751)
- October 26 â Domenico Scarlatti, composer (died 1757)
- December 12 â Lodovico Giustini, early composer for piano (died 1743)
Deaths
- March 31 â Juan Hidalgo de Polanco, harpist and composer (born 1614)
- July 4 or (5) â George Jeffreys, composer (born c.1610)
- September 22 â Ignazio Albertini, Italian musician and composer (born 1644)
- date unknown
- Jean-Baptiste Boësset, French composer (born 1614)
- Yatsuhashi Kengyo, Japanese musician and composer (born 1614)