1679 in music explained
The year 1679 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- Victims of the plague in Vienna include Anna Catharina, wife of Johann Caspar Kerll. Kerll later commemorates the event in his Modulatio organica.
Publications
- Stefano Pasino – Sonatas for 2, 3, & 4 instruments, Op. 8 (Venice: Francesco Magni for Gardano)
Classical music
- Johann Valentin Meder – Ach Herr strafe mich nicht
- Henry Purcell
- O God the King of Glory, Z.34
- O Lord Our Governor, Z.39
- Caprise, H.542
- Johann Pachelbel's earliest datable works were composed for the 1679 Erbhuldigung at Erfurt. The works in question are two arias, So ist denn dies der Tag and So ist denn nur die Treu.
- Choral music is composed by the Valladolid chapel-master Miguel Gomez Camargo (1654–1690).
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