1699 In Music

The year 1699 in music involved some significant events.

Events

*February – Richard Leveridge, Daniel Purcell and Jeremiah Clarke collaborate on the music for an adaptation of Fletcher's '' The Island Princess''.
* John Blow is appointed to the newly created post of Composer to the Chapel Royal in England.
* Antonio Caldara appointed maestro di cappella da chiesa e del teatro to Ferdinando Carlo, the last Gonzaga Duke of Mantua.
* Quirinus Blankenburg is appointed organist at the Nieuwe Kerk in The Hague (however, he only started working there in 1702 after the new organ was completed).

Classical music

*Carlo Agostino Badia
**''Imeneo trionfante'', serenata for the wedding of Joseph I and Wilhelmine Amalie of Braunschweig-Lüneburg
**''Tributi armonici'', 12 chamber cantatas (published circa 1699)
* Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber – ''Sonata violino solo representativa''
*Giovanni Battista Brevi – ''La devotione canora: motetti, libro II'', motets for voice and basso continuo
* Antonio Caldara
**''Suonate da camera'', op. 2; twelve trio sonatas
**''Cantate da camera a voce sola'', op. 3; twelve cantatas
* André Campra
** ''Carnaval de Venise''
** ''Missa 'Ad majorem Dei gloriam
** ''Motets, Livre 2''
* Michel Richard Delalande – ''Confitebor tibi Domine in consilio'', S.56
* Rocco Greco – ''31 sinfonie, 10 passacaglie, 11 brani strumentali''
* Nicolas de Grigny – ''Premier livre d'orgue'', an organ Mass and hymn settings, comprising 42 pieces; second edition published in 1711
*George Frideric Handel – ''Trio Sonata in G minor'', HWV 387
*Johann Pachelbel – '' Hexachordum Apollinis'', six arias with variations for keyboard
* Daniel Purcell – ''Ode for St Cecilia's Day'', the second of the three such pieces by the composer
*Alessandro Scarlatti – ''Clori mia, Clori bella'', H.129

Publications

*The first issue of ''Mercurius Musicus: or, the Monthly Collection of New Teaching Songs'', one of the earliest planned periodicals of music scores, was published in London

Opera

* Antonio Caldara – ''L'oracolo in sogno''
*Carlo Agostino Badia – ''Il Narciso''
* Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber – ''Trattenimento musicale del'ossequio di Salisburgo'' (large cantata; his last)
* Francesco Gasparini – ''Mirena e Floro''
* Johann Mattheson – ''Die Plejades''
*Antonio Quintavalle, Antonio Caldara, and Antonio Pollarolo – ''L'oracolo in sogno''
*Alessandro Scarlatti – ''Gl'Inganni felici''

Theoretical writings

*''Johan Georg Ahlens musikalisches Herbst-Gespräche'' by Johann Georg Ahle, on consonance and dissonance. Third part of Ahle's ''Musikalische Gespräche'' series of treatises in form of dialogues.
*''Primi elementi di musica per li principianti'' by Giovanni Battista Brevi

Births

*January 14 – Jakob Adlung, musician (died 1762)
*February 14 – Tobias Henrich Schubart librettist for Georg Telemann (died 1747)
*March 25 – Johann Adolph Hasse, composer (died 1783)
* May 4 – Giacomo Francesco Milano Franco d'Aragona, composer (died 1780)
* November 13 – Jan Zach, violinist, organist and composer (died 1773)
* December 17 – Charles-Louis Mion, composer (died 1775)
* December 23 – Joseph Gibbs, composer (died 1788)
*''date unknown''
** René de Galard de Béarn, Marquis de Brassac, soldier and amateur composer (died 1771)
**Johann Friedrich Ruhe, composer (died 1776)

Deaths

* June 1 – Jean Rousseau, viol player and composer (born 1644)
* April 11 – Friedrich Christian Bressand, librettist (born 1670)
* October 20 – Friedrich Funcke, composer (born 1642)
*December 30 – Pierre Robert, composer (born c.1618)
* December 31 – Andreas Armsdorff, composer and organist
*''date unknown''
**Mario Agatea, singer, composer and instrument maker (born c.1623–28)
**Isaac Blackwell, composer and organist
**José Marín, composer (born 1619)
** Charles Mouton, composer and lutenist (born 1617)
** Pierre Robert, composer (born 1618)

References

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