1680 in music

The year 1680 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Arcangelo Corelli begins his friendship with Cristiano Farinelli.
• Antonio Stradivari sets up his own business in Cremona.
• John Blow is forced out of his job as organist at Westminster Abbey, to make room for Henry Purcell.
• Georg Muffat goes to Italy to study organ with Bernardo Pasquini.
• Johann Philipp Krieger becomes Kapellmeister of the court at Weissenfels.

Published popular music

Classical music

• Dieterich Buxtehude – Membra Jesu Nostri
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Filius prodigus
• Johann Pachelbel – Canon in D major

Opera

• Pietro Simone Agostini – Il ratto delle Sabine
• Jean-Baptiste Lully - Proserpine
• Antonio Sartorio – La Flora
• Alessandro Scarlatti – L'honestà negli amori

Births

• May 6 - Jean-Baptiste Stuck, cellist and composer (died 1755)
• November 18 (baptised) – Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer (died 1730)
• December 11 – Emanuele d'Astorga, composer (died 1736)
• date unknown – François Campion, guitarist and composer

Deaths

• March - Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, violinist (born 1623)
• May 31 – Joachim Neander, hymn-writer (b. 1650)
• September 10 – Baldassare Ferri, castrato singer (born 1610)
• October 13
  • Lelio Colista, composer and lutenist (b. 1629)
  • François Roberday, organist and composer (b. 1624)
• December 10 – Marco Uccellini, violinist and composer
• December 30 - Antonio Sartorio, composer (born 1630)
• date unknown
  • Kancherla Gopanna, composer of Carnatic music (born c.1620)
  • Maria Francesca Nascinbeni, composer (born c.1640)