1699 in music

The year 1699 in music involved some significant events.

Events

February â Richard Leveridge, Daniel Purcell and Jeremiah Clarke collaborate on the music for an adaptation of Fletcher's The Island Princess.^[1]
John Blow is appointed to the newly created post of Composer to the Chapel Royal in England.^[2]
Antonio Caldara appointed maestro di cappella da chiesa e del teatro to Ferdinando Carlo, the last Gonzaga Duke of Mantua.^[3]
Quirinus Blankenburg is appointed organist at the Nieuwe Kerk in The Hague (however, he only started working there in 1702 after the new organ was completed).

Carlo Agostino Badia
- Imeneo trionfante, serenata for the wedding of Joseph I and Wilhelmine Amalie of Braunschweig-LÃ¼neburg
- Tributi armonici, 12 chamber cantatas (published circa 1699)
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber â Sonata violino solo representativa
Giovanni Battista Brevi â La devotione canora: motetti, libro II, motets for voice and basso continuo
Antonio Caldara
- Suonate da camera, op. 2; twelve trio sonatas
- Cantate da camera a voce sola, op. 3; twelve cantatas
AndrÃ© Campra
- Carnaval de Venise
- Missa 'Ad majorem Dei gloriam'
- Motets, Livre 2
Michel Richard Delalande â Confitebor tibi Domine in consilio, S.56
Rocco Greco â 31 sinfonie, 10 passacaglie, 11 brani strumentali
Nicolas de Grigny â Premier livre d'orgue, an organ Mass and hymn settings, comprising 42 pieces; second edition published in 1711
George Frideric Handel â Trio Sonata in G minor, HWV 387
Johann Pachelbel â Hexachordum Apollinis, six arias with variations for keyboard
Daniel Purcell â Ode for St Cecilia's Day, the second of the three such pieces by the composer
Alessandro Scarlatti â Clori mia, Clori bella, H.129

The first issue of Mercurius Musicus: or, the Monthly Collection of New Teaching Songs, one of the earliest planned periodicals of music scores, was published in London

Antonio Caldara â L'oracolo in sogno^[3]
Carlo Agostino Badia â Il Narciso
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber â Trattenimento musicale del'ossequio di Salisburgo (large cantata; his last)
Francesco Gasparini â Mirena e Floro
Johann Mattheson â Die Plejades
Antonio Quintavalle, Antonio Caldara, and Antonio Pollarolo â L'oracolo in sogno
Alessandro Scarlatti â Gl'Inganni felici^[4]

Johan Georg Ahlens musikalisches Herbst-GesprÃ¤che by Johann Georg Ahle, on consonance and dissonance. Third part of Ahle's Musikalische GesprÃ¤che series of treatises in form of dialogues.
Primi elementi di musica per li principianti by Giovanni Battista Brevi

January 14 â Jakob Adlung, musician (died 1762)
February 14 â Tobias Henrich Schubart librettist for Georg Telemann (died 1747)
March 25 â Johann Adolph Hasse, composer (died 1783)
May 4 â Giacomo Francesco Milano Franco d'Aragona, composer (died 1780)
November 13 â Jan Zach, violinist, organist and composer (died 1773)
December 17 â Charles-Louis Mion, composer (died 1775)
December 23 â Joseph Gibbs, composer (died 1788)
date unknown
- RenÃ© de Galard de BÃ©arn, Marquis de Brassac, soldier and amateur composer (died 1771)
- Johann Friedrich Ruhe, composer (died 1776)