1679 in music
Encyclopedia
Events
- Victims of the plague in ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
include Anna Catharina, wife of Johann Kaspar KerllJohann Kaspar KerllJohann Kaspar Kerll was a German baroque composer and organist.Son of an organist, he showed outstanding musical abilities at an early age, and was taught by Giovanni Valentini, court Kapellmeister at Vienna. Kerll became one of the most acclaimed composers of his time, known both as a gifted...
. Kerll later commemorates the event in his Modulatio organica.
Classical music
- Johann PachelbelJohann PachelbelJohann Pachelbel was a German Baroque composer, organist and teacher, who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most...
's earliest datable works were composed for the 1679 Erbhuldigung at ErfurtErfurtErfurt is the capital city of Thuringia and the main city nearest to the geographical centre of Germany, located 100 km SW of Leipzig, 150 km N of Nuremberg and 180 km SE of Hannover. Erfurt Airport can be reached by plane via Munich. It lies in the southern part of the Thuringian...
. The works in question are two arias, So ist denn dies der Tag and So ist denn nur die Treu. - Choral music is composed by the ValladolidValladolidValladolid is a historic city and municipality in north-central Spain, situated at the confluence of the Pisuerga and Esgueva rivers, and located within three wine-making regions: Ribera del Duero, Rueda and Cigales...
chapel-master Miguel Gomez Camargo (16541654 in music- Events :*January 12 – Première of Francesco Cavalli's opera Xerse at the Teatro SS Giovanni e Paolo in Venice*April 21 – Francisco Lopez Capillas becomes chapelmaster of Mexico City Cathedral....
-16901690 in music-Events:*Invention of the clarinet.*Georg Muffat becomes kapellmeister to the Bishop of Passau.-Opera:*Giuseppe Boniventi – *Marc-Antoine Charpentier – *Alessandro Scarlatti – -Theoretical writings:...
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OperaOperaOpera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
- Johann Paul Agricola – Streit der Schönheit und der Tugend
- Petronio FranceschiniPetronio FranceschiniPetronio Franceschini was a Baroque music composer from Bologna.-Biography:Franceschini studied under Perti and became also the main cellist in Basilica di San Petronio. He composed mainly church music and he is credited of an innovative use of trumpet and voices. Also notable are his 6 operas...
– Apollo in Tessaglia - Alessandro ScarlattiAlessandro ScarlattiAlessandro Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.-Life:Scarlatti was born in...
– Gli Equivoci nell’amore - Marc'Antonio ZianiMarc'Antonio ZianiMarc'Antonio Ziani was an Italian composer in Vienna.Marc'Antonio was born in Venice. He probably studied with his uncle, the organist Pietro Andrea Ziani. From 1686 to 1691 Ziani was maestro di cappella to Duke Ferdinando Carlo di Gonzaga in Mantua, but simultaneously developed his career as an...
– Alessandro Magno in Sidone
Births
- January 5 – Pietro Filippo ScarlattiPietro Filippo ScarlattiPietro Filippo Scarlatti was an Italian composer, organist and choirmaster.He was born in Rome, the eldest of Alessandro Scarlatti's children and a brother of composer Domenico Scarlatti - began his musical career in 1705 as choirmaster of the cathedral of Urbino...
, organist, choirmaster and composer (died 1750) - February 14 – Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, composer (died 1735)
- October 11 – Christian VaterChristian VaterChristian Vater was a German organ and harpsichord builder.He was born in Hanover; his father Martin Vater was an organ builder and gave him his first instruction in the craft. He went on to work for Arp Schnitger as a journeyman between 1697 and 1700. He worked independently from c.1702...
, organ and harpsichord builder (died 1756) - October 16 – Jan Dismas ZelenkaJan Dismas ZelenkaJan Dismas Zelenka , baptised Jan Lukáš Zelenka and previously also known as Johann Dismas Zelenka, was the most important Czech Baroque composer, whose music was notably daring with outstanding harmonic invention and mastery of counterpoint.- Life :Zelenka was born in Louňovice pod Blaníkem, a small...
, composer (died 1745) - December 24 – Domenico SarroDomenico SarroDomenico Natale Sarro, also Sarri was an Italian composer.He studied at the Neapolitan conservatory of S. Onofrio. He composed extensively in the early 18th century. His opera Didone abbandonata, premiered on 1 February 1724 at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples, was the first setting of a major...
, composer (died 1744) - date unknown
- Johann Georg MozartJohann Georg MozartJohann Georg Mozart was a bookbinder who lived in Augsburg, Germany, in the 17th and 18th centuries. He was the father of Leopold Mozart and the grandfather of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart....
, grandfather of Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
(died 1736) - Balthasar SibererBalthasar SibererBalthasar Siberer was an Austrian-born German gymnasium teacher, known for having been an early organ instructor of both Johann Ernst Eberlin and Leopold Mozart....
, organ teacher (died 1757)
- Johann Georg Mozart
Deaths
- May 1 – Esaias ReusnerEsaias ReusnerEsaias Reusner was a German lutenist and composer....
, composer and lutenist (born 1636) - June 27 – Pablo BrunaPablo BrunaPablo Bruna was a Spanish composer and organist notable for his blindness , which resulted in his being known as "El ciego de Daroca" . It is not known how Bruna received his musical training, but in 1631 he was appointed organist of the collegiate church of St...
, blind organist and composer (born 1611) - probable
- Antonio Maria AbbatiniAntonio Maria AbbatiniAntonio Maria Abbatini was an Italian composer, active mainly in Rome.Abbatini was born in Città di Castello. He served as maestro di cappella at the Basilica of St. John Lateran from 1626 to 1628; at the cathedral in Orvieto in 1633; and at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome between 1640 to 1646, 1649...
, composer (born 1595) - Dietrich BeckerDietrich BeckerDietrich Becker was a German Baroque violinist and composer.Little is known about Becker's musical education. His first position was as organist at Ahrensberg. In his second position, in the service of the Chapelle Ducale of the Duke Christian-Ludwig at Celle, he mainly devoted himself to the...
, violinist and composer
- Antonio Maria Abbatini