1691 in music
The year 1691 in music involved some significant events.
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Events
- July – Johann Heinrich Buttstett succeeds Nicolaus Vetter as organist of the Predigerkirche in Erfurt.
Published popular music
Classical music
- Giovanni Battista Alveri – Mia Vita
- John Blow – Ode for St Cecilia's Day[3]
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Marche de triomphe et air, H.547
- Domenico Galli – Trattenimento musicale sopra il violoncello
- Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre – Jeux à l’honneur de la Victoire
- Bianca Maria Meda – Cari Musici (motet)
- Françoise-Charlotte de Senneterre Ménétou – Airs sérieux
- Henry Purcell
- The Gordion Knot Untied, Z.597
- The Old Bachelor, Z.607 (pub. 1697)
Publications
- Andreas Werckmeister – Musicalische Temperatur
Opera
The following operas were composed:
- Henry Purcell – King Arthur (with libretto by John Dryden)
- Bernardo Sabadini – Diomede punito da Alcide
- Agostino Steffani – Orlando generoso
Births
- June 14 – Jan Francisci, organist and composer (died 1758)
- December – Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch, organist and composer (died 1765)
- date unknown – Francesco Feo, opera composer (died 1761)
Deaths
- April 23 – Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, composer (born 1629)[4]
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References
- "A New SONG, Call'd The Batchellor's Anſwer TO THE Helpleſs Maiden". English Broadside Ballad Archive. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
- Pepys Library (Cambridge). Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Boydell & Brewer. p. 360. ISBN 978-0-85991-315-7.
- William Henry Husk (1857). An Account of the Musical Celebrations on St. Cecilia's Day: In the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. To which is Appended a Collection of Odes on St. Cecilia's Day. Bell and Daldy. p. 159.
- David Mason Greene (1985). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 148. ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6.
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