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1688 In Music
The year 1688 in music involved some significant events. Events * Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, hired Bartolomeo Cristofori as his keeper of musical instruments. Published popular music *''Lilliburlero'' in popular circulation Classical music *John Blow – ''Ode for New Year's Day'' *Marc-Antoine Charpentier **''Magnificat à 4 voix sans instruments,'' H.76 **''Dixit Dominus'' H.202 *Gottfried Finger – ''12 Sonatas for Diverse Instruments, Op.1'' *Johann Philipp Krieger – ''O Jesu, du mein Leben'' *Henry Purcell – ''A Fool's Preferment'', Z.571 *André Raison – ' * Johann Schenck – ''Tyd en Konst-Oeffeningen,'' Op.2 *Daniel Speer **''Philomela angelica cantionum sacrarum'' **''Musikalisch-türkischer Eulenspiegel'' *Giuseppe Torelli – ''12 for Violin and Cello'', Op. 4, published in Bologna *Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani – ''Salmi, Mottetti e Litanie della B. V. a 1. 2. 3. voci'' * Johann Jakob Walther – ''{{lang, la, Hortulus chelicus'' O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinando De' Medici, Grand Prince Of Tuscany
Ferdinando de' Medici (9 August 1663 – 31 October 1713) was the eldest son of Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Marguerite Louise d'Orléans. Ferdinando was heir to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, with the title Grand Prince, from his father's accession in 1670 until his death in 1713. He is remembered today primarily as a patron of music. An excellent musician himself (sometimes called "the Orpheus of princes"), he attracted top musicians to Florence and thus made it an important musical center. Through his patronage of Bartolomeo Cristofori, Ferdinando made possible the invention of the piano. Life Ferdinando was born in the Palazzo Pitti to Cosimo III de' Medici and his wife Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, a granddaughter of Maria de' Medici. When Ferdinando's parents separated in 1675, his mother (who disdained her husband only slightly more than Florence did) returned to Paris, where she was supposed to be confined to a monastery in Montmartre. Ferdinando bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dido And Aeneas
''Dido and Aeneas'' (Z. 626) is an opera in a prologue and three acts, written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate. The dates of the composition and first performance of the opera are uncertain. It was composed no later than July 1688, and had been performed at Josias Priest's girls' school in London by the end of 1689.White, Bryan, 'Letter from Aleppo: dating the Chelsea School performance of Dido and Aeneas', 417 Some scholars argue for a date of composition as early as 1683.Pinnock, Andrew, 'Which Genial Day? More on the court origin of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, with a shortlist of dates for its possible performance before King Charles II’, Early Music 43 (2015), 199–212Bruce Wood and Andrew Pinnock, Unscared by turning times'? The dating of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas," The story is based on Book IV of Virgil's ''Aeneid''. It recounts the love of Dido, Queen of Carthage, for the Trojan hero Aeneas, and her despair when he abandons he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
November 26
Events Pre-1600 * 783 – The Asturian queen Adosinda is held at a monastery to prevent her king from retaking the throne from Mauregatus. *1161 – Battle of Caishi: A Song dynasty fleet fights a naval engagement with Jin dynasty ships on the Yangtze river during the Jin–Song Wars. * 1476 – Vlad the Impaler defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Báthory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time. 1601–1900 *1778 – In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui. *1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as proclaimed by President George Washington at the request of Congress. *1805 – Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. *1812 – The Battle of Berezina begins during Napoleon's retreat from Russia. *1852 – An earthquake as high as magnitude 8.8 rocks the Banda Sea, triggering a tsunami and killing a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Grossi
Carlo Grossi (c. 163414 May 1688) was an Italian composer. Life He is believed to have been the first composer to use the term "divertimento", in his 1681 composition ''Il divertimento de' grandi musiche da camera, ò per servizio di tavola.'' He was the organist at the church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo. He is also known for setting Hebrew religious texts to recitative in the style of Claudio Monteverdi, such as in his ''Cantata Ebraica in Dialogo'', a work commissioned from Grossi (himself a Gentile) by the relatively free and well-off Jewish community of Modena. This work was likely intended for performance by an amateur choir (the choral parts are relatively simple, suggesting deliberate tailoring to the capabilities of less advanced musicians) with professional-standard operatic soloists.Joel Cohen, notes to Harmonia Mundi CD HMA1951021, 'Musique Judeo-Baroque' (2001). Grossi died in 1688 at Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeaster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May 14
Events Pre-1600 * 1027 – Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of the Franks. *1097 – The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade. * 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the effective ruler of England. * 1509 – Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Republic of Venice. 1601–1900 * 1607 – English colonists establish "James Fort," which would become Jamestown, Virginia, the earliest permanent English settlement in the Americas. * 1608 – The Protestant Union, a coalition of Protestant German states, is founded to defend the rights, land and safety of each member against the Catholic Church and Catholic German states. * 1610 – Henry IV of France is assassinated by Catholic zealot François Ravaillac, and Louis XIII ascends the throne. * 1643 – Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Pallavicino
Carlo Pallavicino (Pallavicini; c. 1630 – 29 January 1688) was an Italian composer. Pallavicino was born at Salò. From 1666 to 1673, he worked at the Dresden court; from 1674 to 1685, at the ''Ospedale degli Incurabili'' (a conservatory where orphaned children were musically trained) in Venice and further in Dresden. In August and September 1687, he was with the concert master Georg Gottfried Backstroh back in Venice. He asked for renewal of his leave because his wife expected to give birth, but he was rejected. He died in Dresden, and his grave is located in the Convent of the St. Mariestern. He wrote more than 20 operas premiered in Venice and Dresden, oratorios and sacred works. His son, Dresden court writer Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, was a known librettist. Works Operas *''Demetrio'' (dramma per musica, libretto by Giacomo dall'Angelo, 1666, Venice) *''Aureliano'' (dramma per musica con prologo, libretto by Giacomo dall'Angelo, 1666, Venice) *''Il tiranno humiliato d' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 29
Events Pre-1600 * 904 – Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher. * 946 – Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, ruler of the Buyid Empire. He is succeeded by Al-Muti as caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate. * 1258 – First Mongol invasion of Đại Việt: Đại Việt defeats the Mongols at the battle of Đông Bộ Đầu, forcing the Mongols to withdraw from the country. 1601–1900 * 1814 – War of the Sixth Coalition: France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne. * 1819 – Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore. * 1845 – "The Raven" is published in ''The Evening Mirror'' in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe. * 1850 – Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress. * 1856 – Queen Victoria issues a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Foggia
Francesco Foggia ( baptized 17 November 1603 – 8 January 1688) was an Italian Baroque composer. Biography Foggia was a boy soprano at the Collegium Germanicum of the Jesuits in Rome, and was a student of Antonio Cifra, and Paolo Agostini. Perhaps his family was in contact with Giovanni Bernardino Nanino, ''maestro di capella'' at San Luigi dei Francesi. Later, he was probably employed at the court of the Bavarian Elector Maximilian I in Munich and then again in Vienna. He served in various churches in Rome as ''maestro di capella'' and infrequently as an organist. From October 1634 he served for two years at the chapel of St. Mary in Trastevere; from December 1646 to 1661 he was '' Kapellmeister'' of the Patriarchal Basilica of St. John Lateran. In 1667, while music director of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Damaso, he published a collection, ''Psalmodia Vespertina'', containing psalms, Magnificats, and Marian antiphons. From 1677 until his death, he was chapel master a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 8
Events Pre-1600 * 307 – Emperor Huai of Jin, Jin Huaidi becomes emperor of China in succession to his father, Emperor Hui of Jin, Jin Huidi, despite a challenge from his uncle, Sima Ying. * 871 – Æthelred I, King of Wessex, Æthelred I and Alfred the Great lead a Wessex, West Saxon army to Battle of Ashdown, repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings. *1297 – François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing House of Grimaldi, his family as the rulers of Monaco. *1454 – The papal bull ''Romanus Pontifex'' awards the Kingdom of Portugal exclusive trade and colonization rights to all of Africa south of Cape Bojador. *1499 – Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany in accordance with a law set by his predecessor, Charles VIII of France, Charles VIII. *1547 – The first Lithuanian-language book, the ''Catechism of Martynas Mažvydas'', is published in Königsberg. 1601–1900 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zacharias Hildebrandt
Zacharias Hildebrandt (1688, Münsterberg, Silesia – 11 October 1757, Dresden, Saxony) was a German organ builder. In 1714 his father Heinrich Hildebrandt, a cartwright master, apprenticed him to the famous organbuilder Gottfried Silbermann, brother of Andreas Silbermann in Freiberg. In 1721 Hildebrandt finished his masterpiece, the organ of the Nikolaikirche of Langhennersdorf, a small village near Freiberg. Afterwards he built an organ in Störmthal near Leipzig (where befriended Johann Sebastian Bach) and from 1724 to 1726 an organ in Lengefeld. On this project, a dispute developed with Gottfried Silbermann, who treated him as a rival and sued him. The dispute was settled by an agreement in which Hildebrandt obliged himself to take over only orders rejected by Silbermann. Therefore, he moved his work to the region near Leipzig and to Thuringia. J.S. Bach thought Hildebrandt was the best organ builder of his time. Hildebrandt's largest organ has 3 manuals and a pedalboa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domenico Zipoli
Domenico Zipoli (1688-1726) was a composer from the Baroque period. He worked and died in Córdoba, Argentina, Córdoba, in the Viceroyalty of Peru, Spanish Empire, (presently in Argentina). He became a Jesuit in order to work in the Reductions of Paraguay where he taught music among the Guaraní people. He is remembered as the most accomplished musician among Jesuit missionaries. Early training and career Zipoli was born in Prato, Italy, where he received elementary musical training. However, there are no records of him having entered the cathedral choir. In 1707, and with the patronage of Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, he was a pupil of the organist Giovani Maria Casini in Florence. In 1708 he briefly studied under Alessandro Scarlatti in Naples, then Bologna and finally in Rome under Bernardo Pasquini. Two of his oratorios date to this early period: ''San Antonio di Padova'' (1712) and ''Santa Caterina, Virgine e martire'' (1714). Around 1715 he was made the organist of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October 17
Events Pre-1600 * 690 – Empress Wu Zetian establishes the Zhou Dynasty of China. *1091 – London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London. *1346 – The English capture King David II of Scotland at Neville's Cross and imprison him for eleven years. *1448 – An Ottoman army defeats a Hungarian army at the Second Battle of Kosovo. * 1456 – The University of Greifswald is established as the second oldest university in northern Europe. *1534 – Anti-Catholic posters appear in Paris and other cities supporting Huldrych Zwingli's position on the Mass. * 1558 – Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded. 1601–1900 *1604 – Kepler's Supernova is observed in the constellation of Ophiuchus. *1610 – French king Louis XIII is crowned in Reims Cathedral. *1660 – The nine regicides who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England are hanged, drawn and quartered. * 1662 & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
