1699 in music

The year 1699 in music involved some significant events.

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Events

• February – Richard Leveridge, Daniel Purcell and Jeremiah Clarke collaborate on the music for an adaptation of Fletcher's The Island Princess.[1]
• Antonio Caldara appointed maestro di cappella da chiesa e del teatro to Ferdinando Carlo, the last Gonzaga Duke of Mantua.[2]
• Quirinus Blankenburg is appointed organist at the Nieuwe Kerk in The Hague (however, he only started working there in 1702 after the new organ was completed).

Classical music

• Carlo Agostino Badia
  • Imeneo trionfante, serenata for the wedding of Joseph I and Wilhelmine Amalie of Braunschweig-Lüneburg
  • Tributi armonici, 12 chamber cantatas (published circa 1699)
• Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber – Sonata violino solo representativa
• Giovanni Battista Brevi – La devotione canora: motetti, libro II, motets for voice and basso continuo
• Antonio Caldara
  • Suonate da camera, op. 2; twelve trio sonatas
  • Cantate da camera a voce sola, op. 3; twelve cantatas
• André Campra
  • Carnaval de Venise
  • Missa 'Ad majorem Dei gloriam'
  • Motets, Livre 2
• Michel Richard Delalande – Confitebor tibi Domine in consilio, S.56
• Rocco Greco – 31 sinfonie, 10 passacaglie, 11 brani strumentali
• Nicolas de Grigny – Premier livre d'orgue, an organ Mass and hymn settings, comprising 42 pieces; second edition published in 1711
• George Frideric Handel – Trio Sonata in G minor, HWV 387
• Johann Pachelbel – Hexachordum Apollinis, six arias with variations for keyboard
• Daniel Purcell – Ode for St Cecilia's Day, the second of the three such pieces by the composer
• Alessandro Scarlatti – Clori mia, Clori bella, H.129

Publications

• The first issue of Mercurius Musicus: or, the Monthly Collection of New Teaching Songs, one of the earliest planned periodicals of music scores, was published in London

Opera

• Antonio Caldara – L'oracolo in sogno[2]
• Carlo Agostino Badia – Il Narciso
• Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber – Trattenimento musicale del'ossequio di Salisburgo (large cantata; his last)
• Francesco Gasparini – Mirena e Floro
• Johann Mattheson – Die Plejades
• Antonio Quintavalle, Antonio Caldara, and Antonio Pollarolo – L'oracolo in sogno
• Alessandro Scarlatti – Gl'Inganni felici[3]

Theoretical writings

• Johan Georg Ahlens musikalisches Herbst-Gespräche by Johann Georg Ahle, on consonance and dissonance. Third part of Ahle's Musikalische Gespräche series of treatises in form of dialogues.
• Primi elementi di musica per li principianti by Giovanni Battista Brevi

Births

• January 14 – Jakob Adlung, musician (died 1762)
• February 14 – Tobias Henrich Schubart librettist for Georg Telemann (died 1747)
• March 25 – Johann Adolph Hasse, composer (died 1783)
• May 4 – Giacomo Francesco Milano Franco d'Aragona, composer (died 1780)
• November 13 – Jan Zach, violinist, organist and composer (died 1773)
• December 17 – Charles-Louis Mion, composer (died 1775)
• December 23 – Joseph Gibbs, composer (died 1788)
• date unknown
  • René de Galard de Béarn, Marquis de Brassac, soldier and amateur composer (died 1771)
  • Johann Friedrich Ruhe, composer (died 1776)

Deaths

• June 1 – Jean Rousseau, viol player and composer (born 1644)[4]
• April 11 – Friedrich Christian Bressand, librettist (born 1670)
• October 20 – Friedrich Funcke, composer (born 1642)
• December 30 – Pierre Robert, composer (born c.1618)
• December 31 – Andreas Armsdorff, composer and organist
• date unknown
  • Mario Agatea, singer, composer and instrument maker (born c.1623–28)
  • Isaac Blackwell, composer and organist
  • José Marín, composer (born 1619)
  • Charles Mouton, composer and lutenist (born 1617)
  • Pierre Robert, composer (born 1618)

References

1. Kenny, Shirley Strum (1984). British Theatre and the Other Arts, 1660-1800. Associated University Presses. p. 109. ISBN 9780918016652.
2. Randel, Don Michael (1996). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard University Press. p. 129. ISBN 9780674372993.
3. Scarlatti, Alessandro (1979). Massimo Puppieno (in Italian). Harvard University Press. p. 11. ISBN 9780674640313.
4. Green, Robert A. (2001). "Rousseau, Jean (1644 - 1699), viol player, theorist, composer". Oxford index. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.23966. Retrieved 16 April 2018.