The year 1698 in music involved some significant events.

Events

Henry Purcell Henry Purcell (, rare: September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer. Purcell's style of Baroque music was uniquely English, although it incorporated Italian and French elements. Generally considered among the greatest E ...

's widow publishes the first volume of ''Orpheus Britannicus''. * Antonio Stradivari makes the "Cabriac" violin.

Published popular music

Classical music

Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard w ...

– ''Ach, was soll ich Sünder machen'', BWV 770 *

Sébastien de Brossard Sébastien de Brossard, pronounced e.bɑs.tjẽ də brɔ.saːr (12 September 1655 – 10 August 1730) was a French music theorist, composer and collector. Life Brossard was born in Dompierre, Orne. After studying philosophy and theology a ...

– ''Retribue servo tuo'', SdB.004 * Antonio Caldara – ''Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo'' * Marc-Antoine Charpentier **''Missa Assumpta est Maria'', H.11 **''In nativitatem Domini canticum'', H.421 *

Daniel Danielis Daniel Danielis (Visé near Liège 1635- Vannes 1696) was a Belgian composer. He studied at Maastricht and was organist at Saint Lambert's Church. Between 1661 and 1681 he served as ''Kapellmeister'' at the court of Mecklenburg-Güstrow. In 1684 he ...

– ''Cœleste Convivium del Signor (Coll. Brossard)'' * Michel Richard Delalande – ''Regina Coeli'', S.53 * Sebastian Knüpfer – ''Ecce quam bonum et quam iucundum'' (Psalm 133), for 5 solo voices, 5-part choir, 2 violins, 3 violas, bassoon, and basso continuo *

Johann Krieger Johann Krieger (28 December 1651 – 18 July 1735) was a German composer and organist, younger brother of Johann Philipp Krieger. Born in Nuremberg, he worked at Bayreuth, Zeitz, and Greiz before settling in Zittau. He was one of the most importa ...

– ''Anmuthige Clavier-Übung'' (Nuremberg), a collection of 25 pieces for organ, including ricercars, fugues, preludes, etc. *

August Kühnel August Kühnel (3 August 1645 – ca. 1700) was a German composer and accomplished viola da gamba performer. Biography Kühnel was the son of the Mecklenburg chamber musician Samuel Kühnel. Already in 1661 (at age 16), after receiving educatio ...

– ''14 Sonate ò Partite ad una o due viole da gamba, con il basso continuo'' (Kassel) *

Isabella Leonarda Isabella Leonarda (6 September 1620 – 25 February 1704) was an Italian composer from Novara. At the age of 16, she entered the Collegio di Sant'Orsola, an Ursuline convent, where she stayed for the remainder of her life. Leonarda is most renow ...

– ''Salmi concertati a 4 voci con strumenti'', Op. 19 (Bologna) * Christian Liebe – ''O Heiland aller Welt ich muß dir sehnlich klagen'' *

Georg Muffat Georg Muffat (1 June 1653 – 23 February 1704) was a Baroque composer and organist. He is best known for the remarkably articulate and informative performance directions printed along with his collections of string pieces ''Florilegium Primum'' a ...

– ''Florilegium Secundum'' (Passau) *

Daniel Purcell Daniel Purcell (c. 1664 – buried 26 November 1717) was an English Baroque composer, the younger brother or cousin of Henry Purcell. Biography Like Henry Purcell before him, Daniel Purcell joined the choir of the Chapel Royal at about the age of ...

– ''6 Sonatas or Solos'' * Johann Abraham Schmierer – ''Zodiaci musici'' * Giuseppe Torelli – ''Concerti musicali a quattro'' op.6

Opera

Richard Leveridge Richard Leveridge (or Leueridge) (19 July 1670 – 22 March 1758) was an English bass singer of the London stage and a composer of baroque music, including many popular songs. Life Richard Leveridge was born in the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fiel ...

– ''The Island Princess'' *Luigi Manza – ''Tito Manlio''; ''Partenope'' *

Alessandro Scarlatti Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti (2 May 1660 – 22 October 1725) was an Italian Baroque composer, known especially for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the most important representative of the Neapolitan school of opera. ...

**''La donna ancora è fedele'' **''Il prigioniero fortunato'', R.346.36

Births

January 3 Events Pre-1600 *AD 69, 69 – The Roman legions on the Rhine refuse to declare their allegiance to Galba, instead proclaiming their legate, Aulus Vitellius, as emperor. * 250 – Emperor Decius orders everyone in the Roman Empire (ex ...

– Metastasio, born Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, poet and opera librettist (died 1782) * July 24 –

František Jiránek František Jiránek (24 July 1698 – 1778) was a Czech ( Bohemian) Baroque composer, musician and very likely a student of Antonio Vivaldi. Life Jiránek was born on 24 July 1698 in Lomnice nad Popelkou (Northern Bohemia, present-day Czech Rep ...

, composer (died 1778) * September 8 –

François Francoeur François Francœur (8 September 1698 – 5 August 1787) was a French composer and violinist. Biography François Francœur was born in Paris, the son of Joseph Francœur, a basse de violon player and member of the '' 24 violons du roy''. Franc� ...

, violinist and composer (died 1787) *''date unknown'' **

Pietro Auletta Pietro Antonio Auletta (1698–1771) was an Italian composer known mainly for his operas. His opera buffa ''Orazio'' gained popularity after being mis-attributed to Pergolesi Pergolesi is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Giov ...

, composer (died 1771) **

Antonio Bioni Antonio Bioni (1698–1739) was an Italian composer, best known for his operas, and who, from 1726 onwards, spent a large part of his career working in Wrocław in present-day Poland. He was born in Venice. Operas *''Climene'' (1722, Chioggia) * ...

, composer (died 1739) **

Riccardo Broschi Riccardo Broschi (c. 1698 – 1756) was a composer of baroque music and the brother of the opera singer Carlo Broschi, known as Farinelli. Life Broschi was born in Naples, the son of Salvatore Broschi, a composer and chapelmaster of the Cathe ...

, composer (died 1756) **

Célestin Harst Célestin Harst (1698–1778) was a French Catholic priest, organist and harpsichordist. He was born in Sélestat (), Alsace, and became Prior (ecclesiastical), prior of the Ebersmunster abbey. At some point in life, he was introduced to the Frenc ...

, priest, organist and composer (died 1778) *''probable'' –

Giovanni Battista Sammartini Giovanni Battista Sammartini (c. 1700 – 15 January 1775) was an Italian composer, violinist, organist, choirmaster and teacher. He counted Gluck among his students, and was highly regarded by younger composers including Johann Christian ...

, composer (died 1775)

Deaths

*''date unknown'' –

Thomas Connellan Thomas Connellan ( – 1698) was an Irish composer. Connellan was born about 1640/1645 at Cloonamahon, County Sligo. Both he and his brother, William Connellan became harpers. Thomas is famous for the words and music of ''Molly MacAlpin'', ...

, composer and harpist (born c.1640) *''probable'' –

Nicola Matteis Nicola Matteis (Matheis) (fl. c. 1650 – after 1713) was the earliest notable Italian Baroque violinist in London, whom Roger North judged in retrospect "to have been a second to Corelli," and a composer of significant popularity in his time, t ...

, violinist and composer (born c.1670)

References

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