1690 in music explained

The year 1690 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Invention of the clarinet (approximate)^[1]
• Georg Muffat becomes Kapellmeister to the Bishop of Passau.

Published popular music

• "Captain Johnson's Last Farewell"^[2]

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 –
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier –
• 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)^[3]
• 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)^[4]
• 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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: A History of the Clarinet and its Music (thesis). Ramon J. Kireilis. 1964. 28 January 2019.
2. Web site: Capt. Johnsons last Farewel. English Broadside Ballad. 28 January 2019.
3. Book: Philip H. Highfill. Kalman A. Burnim. Edward A. Langhans. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660–1800: Tibbett to M. West. 1993. SIU Press. 978-0-8093-1802-5. 131.
4. Book: Karl Krueger. The Musical Heritage of the United States: The Unknown Portion. 1973. Society for the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage.