1699 in music

The year 1699 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• February – Richard Leveridge, Daniel Purcell and Jeremiah Clarke collaborate on the music for an adaptation of Fletcher's The Island Princess.
• John Blow is appointed to the newly created post of Composer to the Chapel Royal in England.
• Antonio Caldara appointed maestro di cappella da chiesa e del teatro to Ferdinando Carlo, the last Gonzaga Duke of Mantua.
• 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).

Classical music

• Carlo Agostino Badia
• Imeneo trionfante, serenata for the wedding of Joseph I and Wilhelmine Amalie of Braunschweig-Lüneburg
• Tributi armonici, 12 chamber cantatas (published circa 1699)
• Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber – Sonata violino solo representativa
• Giovanni Battista Brevi – 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
• André Campra
• Carnaval de Venise
• Missa 'Ad majorem Dei gloriam
• Motets, Livre 2
• Michel Richard Delalande – Confitebor tibi Domine in consilio, S.56
• Rocco Greco – 31 sinfonie, 10 passacaglie, 11 brani strumentali
• Nicolas de Grigny – Premier livre d'orgue, an organ Mass and hymn settings, comprising 42 pieces; second edition published in 1711
• George Frideric Handel – Trio Sonata in G minor, HWV 387
• Johann Pachelbel – Hexachordum Apollinis, six arias with variations for keyboard
• Daniel Purcell – Ode for St Cecilia's Day, the second of the three such pieces by the composer
• Alessandro Scarlatti – Clori mia, Clori bella, H.129