Overview of the events of 1690 in music
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The year 1690 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- Invention of the clarinet (approximate)
- Georg Muffat becomes Kapellmeister to the Bishop of Passau.
Published popular music
- "Captain Johnson's Last Farewell"
Classical music
- Giovanni Battista Bassani – Armonici entusiasmi di Davide, Op. 9 (Venice)
- Giovanni Bononcini
- Chi d'Amor tra le catene
- La Maddalena a'piedi di Cristo
- Jacques Boyvin – Livre d'orgue I, Ton 1–8
- Nicolaus Bruhns – Mein Hertz ist Bereit
- Dietrich Buxtehude
- Du Lebensfürst Herr Jesu Christ, BuxWV 22
- Jubilate Domino, BuxWV 64
- Quemadmodum desiderat cervus, BuxWV 92
- Missa brevis, BuxWV 114
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- Messe pour Mr Mauroy, H.6
- Tenebrae Responsories H.127–133
- Leçon de ténèbres du Mercredi saint, H.135, 138
- Leçon de ténèbres du Jeudi saint, H.136, 139
- Leçon de ténèbres du Vendredi saint, H.137, 140
- In honorem Sancti Xaverij canticum, H.355
- In nativitatem Domini canticum, H.416
- Symphonie à 3 flûtes, H.529
- Commencement d’ouverture, H.546
- François Couperin – La Steinquerque
- Gilles Jullien – Premier Livre d'Orgue
- Johann Kehnau – Bone Jesu, care Jesu
- Georg Muffat – Apparatus Musico-Organisticus
- Giovanni Domenico Partenio – Motets for two and three voices, Op. 1 (Venice: Giuseppe Sala)
- Francesco Passarini – Misse brevi for eight voices and organ continuo, Op. 4 (Bologna: Pier Maria Monti)
- Henry Purcell
- music for The Tempest
- music for Amphitryon, Z.572
- Giuseppe Torelli
- Trumpet Sonata in D major, G.1
- Sinfonia in D major, G.2
- Jean Veillot – Motets
Opera
- Giuseppe Boniventi – Il gran Macedone
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Le Jugement de Paris
- Louis Lully – Orphée
- Henry Purcell – Dioclesian, Z.627
- Alessandro Scarlatti
- La Rosaura
- La Statira
Theoretical writings
- Kurze doch deutliche Anleitung zu der lieblich- und löblichen Singekunst by Johann Georg Ahle, an enlarged and revised version of Johann Rudolf Ahle's famous singing manual, Brevis et perspicua introductio. A second edition was published in 1704.
- Traité d’accompagnement pour le théorbe et le clavecin by Denis Delair
Births
- February 1 – Francesco Maria Veracini, violinist and composer (died 1768)
- June 11 – Giovanni Antonio Giay, composer (died 1764)
- September 15 – Ignazio Prota, composer and music teacher (died 1748)
- November 22 – François Colin de Blamont, composer (died 1760)
- November 24 (baptized) – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, organist, harpsichordist and composer (died 1750)
- date unknown
- Francesco Barsanti, composer, recorder & oboe virtuoso; born Lucca, Toscany (IT). (Died 1775)
- Johann Tobias Krebs, organist and composer (died 1762)
- probable
- Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, composer and violinist (died 1758)
- Senesino, castrato singer (died 1756)
Deaths
- May 27 – Giovanni Legrenzi, composer (born 1626)
- July 10 – Domenico Gabrielli, cellist and composer (born c.1651)
- date unknown – Gustaf Düben, organist (born 1628)
References
- Ramon J. Kireilis (1964). "A History of the Clarinet and its Music (thesis)" (PDF). Retrieved 28 January 2019.
- "Capt. Johnsons last Farewel". English Broadside Ballad. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
- Philip H. Highfill; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (1993). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660–1800: Tibbett to M. West. SIU Press. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-8093-1802-5.
- Karl Krueger (1973). The Musical Heritage of the United States: The Unknown Portion. Society for the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage.