1690 in music

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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 – Il gran Macedone
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Le Jugement de Paris
• 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)

References

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