1696 in music
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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.
Published popular music
Classical music
- Henrico Albicastro â Il giardino armonico sacro-profano
- Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber â Harmonia artificioso-ariosa
- John Blow â Ode on the Death of Purcell
- Dieterich Buxtehude â VII suonate, op. 2
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier â Ego mater agnitionis, H.371
- Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer â Les pièces de clavessin, Op.2
- Johann Kuhnau â Frische Klavierfrüchte
- Isabella Leonarda â Messe e motetti concertate, Op.18
- Nicola Matteis â A Collection of New Songs[1]
- Franz Xaver Murschhauser â Octi-tonium novum organicum, octo tonis ecclesiasticis, ad Psalmos, & magnificat
- Henry Purcell â A Choice Collection of Lessons for the Harpsichord or Spinnet (published posthumously)
- Johann Paul von Westhoff â Six Partitas for solo violin
Opera
- Tomaso Albinoni â Zenone, Imperator d'Oriente
- Giuseppe Aldrovandini â Dafni
- Giovanni Bononcini â Il Trionfo di Camilla
- Sebastián Durón â Salir el amor del mundo
- John Eccles â The Loves of Mars and Venus
- Marin Marais â Ariane et Bacchus
- Bernardo Pasquini â Radamisto
- Daniel Purcell â Brutus of Alba
- Alessandro Scarlatti â La Didone delirante, R.344.30
Births
- February 10 â Johann Melchior Molter, violinist and composer (died 1765)
- February 17 â Ernst Gottlieb Baron, lutenist and composer (died 1760)
- March 21 â Pierre Février, organist, harpsichordist and composer (died 1760)
- May 23 â Johann Caspar Vogler, organist and composer (died 1763)
- August 12 â Maurice Greene, composer (died 1725)
- November 11 â Andrea Zani, violinist and composer (died 1757)
- December 25 â Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, amateur composer (died 1715)
- date unknown
- Marged ferch Ifan, harpist and wrestler (died 1793)
Deaths
- April 21 â Jacques Gallot, composer
- May 31 â Heinrich Schwemmer, composer and music teacher (born 1621)
- June 29 â Michel Lambert, French composer of airs (born 1610)[2]
- July 25 â Clamor Heinrich Abel, German composer (born 1634)