1691 in music explained

The year 1691 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• July – Johann Heinrich Buttstett succeeds Nicolaus Vetter as organist of the Predigerkirche in Erfurt.

Published popular music

• "The Bachelor's Answer to the Helpless Maiden"^[1]
• "The Charming Regent's Wish"^[2]

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
• Gottfried Finger – A Collection of Musick in Two Parts
• 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]
• unknown date – Adriano Morsell, librettist (birth year unknown)

Notes and References

1. Web site: A New SONG, Call'd The Batchellor's Anſwer TO THE Helpleſs Maiden. English Broadside Ballad Archive. 28 January 2019.
2. Book: Pepys Library (Cambridge). Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. 1978 . Boydell & Brewer. 978-0-85991-315-7. 360.
3. Book: William Henry Husk. 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. 1857. Bell and Daldy. 159.
4. Book: David Mason Greene. Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. 1985. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd.. 978-0-385-14278-6. 148.