The year 1690 in music involved some significant events.
Events Invention of the clarinet (approximate) Georg Muffat becomes Kapellmeister to the Bishop of Passau.
Published popular music "Captain Johnson's Last Farewell"
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 – Marc-Antoine Charpentier – 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) 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) 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)
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