1679 in music
The year 1679 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- Victims of the plague in Vienna include Anna Catharina, wife of Johann Kaspar Kerll. Kerll later commemorates the event in his Modulatio organica.
Published popular music
Classical music
- Johann Pachelbel's earliest datable works were composed for the 1679 Erbhuldigung at Erfurt. 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 Valladolid chapel-master Miguel Gomez Camargo (1654-1690).
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