1690 in music

The year 1690 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Invention of the clarinet (approximate)
• Georg Muffat becomes Kapellmeister to the Bishop of Passau.

Published popular music

• "Captain Johnson's Last Farewell"

Classical music

• Giovanni Battista Bassani – Armonici entusiasmi di Davide, Op. 9 (Venice)
• Giovanni Bononcini
• Chi d'Amor tra le catene
• La Maddalena a'piedi di Cristo
• Jacques Boyvin – Livre d'orgue I, Ton 1–8
• Nicolaus Bruhns – Mein Hertz ist Bereit
• Dietrich Buxtehude
• Du Lebensfürst Herr Jesu Christ, BuxWV 22
• Jubilate Domino, BuxWV 64
• Quemadmodum desiderat cervus, BuxWV 92
• Missa brevis, BuxWV 114
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier
• Messe pour Mr Mauroy, H.6
• Tenebrae Responsories H.127–133
• Leçon de ténèbres du Mercredi saint, H.135, 138
• Leçon de ténèbres du Jeudi saint, H.136, 139
• Leçon de ténèbres du Vendredi saint, H.137, 140
• In honorem Sancti Xaverij canticum, H.355
• In nativitatem Domini canticum, H.416
• Symphonie à 3 flûtes, H.529
• Commencement d’ouverture, H.546
• François Couperin – La Steinquerque
• Gilles Jullien – Premier Livre d'Orgue
• Johann Kehnau – Bone Jesu, care Jesu
• Georg Muffat – Apparatus Musico-Organisticus
• Giovanni Domenico Partenio – Motets for two and three voices, Op. 1 (Venice: Giuseppe Sala)
• Francesco Passarini – Misse brevi for eight voices and organ continuo, Op. 4 (Bologna: Pier Maria Monti)
• Henry Purcell
• music for The Tempest
• music for Amphitryon, Z.572
• Giuseppe Torelli
• Trumpet Sonata in D major, G.1
• Sinfonia in D major, G.2
• Jean Veillot – Motets

Opera

• Giuseppe Boniventi – '
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier – '
• Louis Lully – Orphée
• Henry Purcell – Dioclesian, Z.627
• Alessandro Scarlatti
• La Rosaura
• La Statira

Theoretical writings

• Kurze doch deutliche Anleitung zu der lieblich- und löblichen Singekunst by Johann Georg Ahle, an enlarged and revised version of Johann Rudolf Ahle's famous singing manual, Brevis et perspicua introductio. A second edition was published in 1704.
• Traité d’accompagnement pour le théorbe et le clavecin by Denis Delair

Births

• February 1 – Francesco Maria Veracini, violinist and composer (died 1768)
• June 11 – Giovanni Antonio Giay, composer (died 1764)
• September 15 – Ignazio Prota, composer and music teacher (died 1748)
• November 22 – François Colin de Blamont, composer (died 1760)
• November 24 (baptized) – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, organist, harpsichordist and composer (died 1750)
• date unknown
• Francesco Barsanti, composer, recorder & oboe virtuoso; born Lucca, Toscany (IT). (Died 1775)
• Johann Tobias Krebs, organist and composer (died 1762)
• probable
• Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, composer and violinist (died 1758)
• Senesino, castrato singer (died 1756)

Deaths

• May 27 – Giovanni Legrenzi, composer (born 1626)
• July 10 – Domenico Gabrielli, cellist and composer (born c.1651)
• date unknown – Gustaf Düben, organist (born 1628)

References