1684 in music

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The year 1684 in music involved some significant events.

Events

Antonio Stradivari makes the Bucher, Cipriani Potter and Cobbett ex Holloway violins.
An adaptation of Fletcher's Valentinian features music composed by Louis Grabu.

Classical music

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

Opera

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

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)

Deaths

May 8 – Henri Dumont, composer
September 10 – Johann Rosenmüller, German composer (born 1619)
date unknown – Nicola Amati, violin-maker of Cremona (born 1596)