1696 in music
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- Giacomo Antonio PertiGiacomo Antonio PertiGiacomo Antonio Perti was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. He was mainly active at Bologna, where he was Maestro di Cappella for sixty years...
becomes maestro di cappella to S Petronio, Bologna, where he remains for the rest of his life. - Francesco Antonio PistocchiFrancesco Antonio PistocchiFrancesco Antonio Mamiliano Pistocchi nicknamed Pistocchino was an Italian singer, composer and librettist.Pistocchino was born in Palermo. He was a boy soprano prodigy, and later made his career as a castrato. From 1696 to 1700 he was maestro di cappella for the Duke of Ansbach. After 1700 he...
becomes maestro di cappella to the Duke of Ansbach.
Classical music
- Henrico Albicastro – Il giardino armonico sacro-profano
- John BlowJohn BlowJohn Blow was an English Baroque composer and organist, appointed to Westminster Abbey in 1669. His pupils included William Croft, Jeremiah Clarke and Henry Purcell. In 1685 he was named a private musician to James II. His only stage composition, Venus and Adonis John Blow (baptised 23 February...
– Ode on the Death of PurcellHenry PurcellHenry Purcell – 21 November 1695), was an English organist and Baroque composer of secular and sacred music. Although Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, his legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music... - Dieterich BuxtehudeDieterich BuxtehudeDieterich Buxtehude was a German-Danish organist and composer of the Baroque period. His organ works represent a central part of the standard organ repertoire and are frequently performed at recitals and in church services...
– VII suonate, op. 2 - Johann KuhnauJohann KuhnauJohann Kuhnau was a German composer, organist and harpsichordist.-Biography :Kuhnau was born in Geising, Saxony. He grew up in a religious Lutheran family. At age nine, he auditioned successfully for the Kreuzschule in Dresden...
– Frische Klavierfrüchte - Franz Xaver MurschhauserFranz Xaver MurschhauserFranz Xaver Murschhauser was a German composer and theorist.He was born in Saverne, Alsace, but he is first mentioned as a singer and instrumentalist at St Peter’s School in Munich, in 1676. He studied music with the Kantor, Siegmund Auer and, from 1683 to his death in 1693, Johann Caspar Kerll...
– Octi-tonium novum organicum, octo tonis ecclesiasticis, ad Psalmos, & magnificat - Johann Paul von WesthoffJohann Paul von WesthoffJohann Paul von Westhoff was a German Baroque composer and violinist. One of the most important exponents of the Dresden violin school, he was among the highest ranked violinists of his day, and composed some of the earliest known music for solo violin...
– Six partitas for solo violinPartitas for solo violin (Westhoff)The six partitas for solo violin by Johann Paul von Westhoff are the earliest known published music for solo violin. Although Westhoff's compositions were rediscovered by scholars already in the mid-19th century, this work was only found in the late 20th century.-History:The collection of six...
Opera
- Tomaso AlbinoniTomaso AlbinoniTomaso Giovanni Albinoni was an Italian Baroque composer. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music, such as the concertos, some of which are regularly recorded.-Biography:Born in Venice, Republic of Venice, to Antonio Albinoni, a...
– Zenone, Imperator d'Oriente - Giuseppe AldrovandiniGiuseppe AldrovandiniGiuseppe Antonio Vincenzo Aldrovandini was an Italian Baroque composer. He is credited with writing over twenty operas and oratorios, including the 1696 opera Dafni, as well as many other instrumental compositions and arias.-External links:...
– Dafni - Giovanni Bononcini – Il Trionfo di Camilla
- John EcclesJohn EcclesJohn Eccles was an English composer.Born in London, eldest son of professional musician Solomon Eccles, John Eccles was appointed to the King's Private Musick in 1694, and in 1700 became Master of the King's Musick...
– The Loves of Mars and Venus - Bernardo PasquiniBernardo Pasquiniright|thumb|Bernardo PasquiniBernardo Pasquini was an Italian composer of opera and church music.He was born at Massa in Val di Nievole . He was a pupil of Antonio Cesti and Loreto Vittori...
– Radamisto
Births
- February 10 – Johann Melchior MolterJohann Melchior MolterJohann Melchior Molter was a German baroque composer and violinist.He was born at Tiefenort, near Eisenach, and was educated at the Gymnasium in Eisenach. By autumn 1717 he had left Eisenach and was working as a violinist in Karlsruhe. Here he married Maria Salome Rollwagen, with whom he had eight...
, violinist and composer (died 1765) - May 23 – Johann Caspar VoglerJohann Caspar VoglerJohann Caspar Vogler was a German organist and composer taught by Johann Sebastian Bach.-Biography:He was born in Hausen, near Arnstadt; from 1706 he studied with Johann Sebastian Bach, who was at that time organist there, and was also taught, in Rudolstadt, by P. H. Erlebach and Nicolaus Vetter...
, organist and composer (died 1763) - August 12 – Maurice GreeneMaurice Greene (composer)Maurice Greene was an English composer and organist.- Biography :Born in London, the son of a clergyman, Greene became a choirboy at St Paul's Cathedral under Jeremiah Clarke and Charles King...
, composer (died 1725) - November 11 - Andrea ZaniAndrea ZaniAndrea Teodoro Zani was an Italian violinist and composer.-Life:Zani was born at Casalmaggiore in the Province of Cremona. He received his first instruction in playing the violin from his father, an amateur violinist...
, violinist and composer (died 1757) - December 25 - Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, amateur composer (died 1715)
- date unknown
- Ernst Gottlieb BaronErnst Gottlieb BaronErnst Gottlieb Baron or Ernst Theofil Baron, was a German lutenist, composer and writer on music.Baron was born in Breslau into the family Michael Baron, of a maker of gold lace who expected his son to follow in his footsteps. Baron showed an inclination to music from an early age, and later made...
, lutenist and composer (died 1760) - Pierre FévrierPierre FévrierPierre Février was a French baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist.Février lived in Paris and served as titular organist of two churches in the Saint-Honoré street: the Jacobins' church and the Saint Roch. Claude-Bénigne Balbastre, who moved to Paris in 1750, was among his pupils and...
, organist, harpsichordist and composer (died 1760)
- Ernst Gottlieb Baron
Deaths
- April 21 – Jacques GallotJacques GallotJacques Gallot was a French lutenist and composer....
, composer - May 31 – Heinrich SchwemmerHeinrich SchwemmerHeinrich Schwemmer was a German music teacher and composer.He was born in Gumpertshausen bei Hallburg, Lower Franconia, and moved with his mother to Weimar after his father’s death in 1627, to get away from the Thirty Years War. After his mother's death in 1638, he moved to Coburg, then in 1641 to...
, composer and music teacher (born 1621) - June 29 – Michel LambertMichel LambertMichel Lambert was a French singing master, theorbist and composer.Lambert was born at Champigny-sur-Veude, France. He received his musical education as an altar boy at the Chapel of Gaston d'Orléans. He studied also with Pierre de Nyert in Paris. Since 1636, he was known as a singing teacher...
, French composer of airs (born 1610) - July 25 – Clamor Heinrich AbelClamor Heinrich AbelClamor Heinrich Abel was a German composer, violinist and organist.Abel was born in Hünnefeld, Westphalia, Germany. He worked as a court musician in Köthen, an organist in Celle and from 1666, as a ducal chamber musician in Hanover...
, German composer (born 1634)