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1685 in music
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The year
1685 in music
involved some significant events.
Contents
1
Events
2
Published popular music
3
Classical music
4
Opera
5
Births
6
Deaths
7
References
Events
The father of
Georg Philipp Telemann
dies, leaving his widow to bring up the children.
Antonio Stradivari
makes the ex Arma Senkrah
violin
.
John Blow
is recorded among the private musicians of King
James II of England
.
The 17-year-old
François Couperin
becomes organist at St Gervais in Paris.
Giovanni Legrenzi
becomes
maestro di cappella
at St Mark's Cathedral, Venice.
Published popular music
Classical music
Arcangelo Corelli
– Op. 2, 12 trio sonatas
Henry Purcell
–
My heart is inditing
(anthem), first performed at the coronation of
King James II
[
1
]
Opera
John Blow
–
Venus and Adonis
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
La Couronne de fleurs
Les arts florissants
Giuseppe Fabrini –
La Genefieva
Jean-Baptiste Lully
–
Roland
Births
February 23
–
George Frideric Handel
, composer (died 1759)
March 21
–
Johann Sebastian Bach
, composer (died 1750)
June 26
–
Antonio Maria Bernacchi
,
castrato
singer (died 1756)
June 30
–
John Gay
, poet, author of
The Beggar's Opera
(died 1732)
September 20
–
Giuseppe Matteo Alberti
, composer and violinist (died 1751)
October 26
–
Domenico Scarlatti
, composer (died 1757)
December 12
–
Lodovico Giustini
, early composer for piano (died 1743)
Deaths
March 31
-
Juan Hidalgo de Polanco
, harpist and composer (born 1614)
July 4
or 5 -
George Jeffreys
, composer (born c.1610)
September 22
-
Ignazio Albertini
, Italian musician and composer (born 1644)
date unknown
Jean-Baptiste Boësset
, French composer (born 1614)
Yatsuhashi Kengyo
, Japanese musician and composer (born 1614)
References
^
Palisca, Claude V. (1991) [1968].
Baroque Music
. Prentice Hall History of Music (3rd ed.).
Englewood Cliffs
:
Prentice Hall
. p. 308.
ISBN
0-13-058496-7.