1684 in music

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See also: 1683 in music, other events of 1684, 1685 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Contents 1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Antonio Stradivari makes the Bucher, Cipriani Potter and Cobbett ex Holloway violins

[edit] Published popular music

[edit] Classical music

• Giovanni Battista Granata - Armoniosi toni di varie suonate musicali per la chitarra spagnuola . . . Opera settima
• Alessandro Scarlatti - Agar et Ismaele esiliati (oratorio)

[edit] Opera

• John Blow - Venus and Adonis
• Juan Hidalgo - Apolo y Leucotea
• Jean-Baptiste Lully - Amadis de Gaule

[edit] Births

• March 15 - Francesco Durante, composer (died 1755)
• June 22 - Francesco Manfredini, violinist and composer (died 1762)
• September 18 - Johann Gottfried Walther, composer and music theorist (died 1748)

[edit] Deaths

• May 8 - Henri Dumont, composer
• date unknown - Niccolo Amati, violin-maker of Cremona (born 1596)