1695 in music

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The year 1695 in music involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Events
2 Published popular music
3 Classical music
4 Opera
5 Theoretical writings
6 Births
7 Deaths

Events

March 5 - The funeral of Queen Mary II of England takes place, accompanied by music written for the occasion by Henry Purcell.
Music publisher Henry Playford relocates his London shop to Temple Change.
The orphaned Johann Sebastian Bach is taken in by his cousin Johann Christoph Bach.
Johann Pachelbel settles in Nuremberg, where he will remain for the rest of his life.

Published popular music

Classical music

Johann Pachelbel – Musikalische Ergötzung, vol. 2

Opera

Tomaso Albinoni – Il prodigio dell'innocenza
Henry Purcell – The Indian Queen

Theoretical writings

Johan Georg Ahlens musikalisches Frühlings-Gespräche by Johann Georg Ahle, on consonance and dissonance. First part of Ahle's Musikalische Gespräche series of treatises in form of dialogues.

Births

January 6 – Giuseppe Sammartini, oboist and composer (died 1750)
August 26 – Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault, singer and composer (died 1791)
September 3 – Pietro Locatelli, composer (died 1764)

Deaths

February 24 – Johann Ambrosius Bach, violinist (born 1645)
April 20 – Georg Caspar Wecker, organist and composer (born 1632)
November 21 – Henry Purcell, composer (born 1659)
November 28 – Giovanni Paolo Colonna, composer (born c.1637)
probable – Cataldo Amodei, Sicilian musician (born c. 1650)