The year 1680 in music involved some significant events.
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Events edit
- Arcangelo Corelli begins his friendship with Cristiano Farinelli.
- Antonio Stradivari sets up his own business in Cremona.
- John Blow is forced out of his job as organist at Westminster Abbey, to make room for Henry Purcell.[citation needed]
- Georg Muffat goes to Italy to study organ with Bernardo Pasquini.
- Johann Philipp Krieger becomes Kapellmeister of the court at Weissenfels.
- First record of the marimba in Guatemala.[citation needed]
Publications edit
- Denis Gaultier – Livres de tablature des pièces de luth
- Ennemond Gaultier
- Livre de musique pour le luth contenant une métode
- Pièces de luth en musique avec des règles pour les toucher parfaitement sur le luth, et sur le clavessin
Classical music edit
- Heinrich Biber – Mensa sonora
- Dieterich Buxtehude – Membra Jesu Nostri
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- Filius prodigus
- Leçon de ténèbres du Vendredi saint, H.105
- Laudate pueri Dominum, H.203
- Concert pour 4 parties de violes, H.545
- Ennemond Gaultier – Suite in D minor[clarification needed]
- Johann Caspar Horn – Geistliche Harmonien
- Charles Mouton – Pièces de luth sur différents modes
- Henry Purcell
- Beati omnes qui timent Dominum, Z.131
- Fantasias and In Nomines, Z.732-747
- Pavane and Chaconne in G minor, Z.752 (Pavane) and Z.730 (Chaconne)
- 12 Sonatas of Three Parts, Z.790-801
- Sebastian Anton Scherer – 14 Sonatas, Op.3
- Johann Heinrich Schmelzer – Lamento sopra la morte di Ferdinand III (Published in the Rost Codex)
- Giovanni Battista Vitali – Partite sopra diverse sonate
Opera edit
- Pietro Simone Agostini – Il ratto delle Sabine
- Jean-Baptiste Lully – Proserpine
- Antonio Sartorio – La Flora
- Alessandro Scarlatti – L'honestà negli amori
Births edit
- April 19 – Johann Friedrich Helbig, hymnist (died 1722)
- May 6 – Jean-Baptiste Stuck, cellist and composer (died 1755)
- September 29 – Christian Friedrich Hunold, librettist (died 1721)
- November 18 (baptised) – Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer (died 1730)
- December 11 – Emanuele d'Astorga, composer (died 1736)
- date unknown
- Louis de Caix d'Hervelois, composer (died 1759)
- François Campion, guitarist and composer
- Giovanni Antonio Guido, violinist and composer (died 1729)
Deaths edit
- March 20 – Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, violinist (born 1623)
- April 1 – David Denicke, hymnist (b. 1603)
- May 31 – Joachim Neander, hymn-writer (b. 1650)
- September 10 – Baldassare Ferri, castrato singer (born 1610)
- October 13
- Lelio Colista, composer and lutenist (b. 1629)
- François Roberday, organist and composer (b. 1624)
- November 27 – Athanasius Kircher, composer and polymath (born 1602)
- December 10 – Marco Uccellini, violinist and composer
- December 30 – Antonio Sartorio, composer (born 1630)
- date unknown
- Kancherla Gopanna, composer of Carnatic music (born c.1620)
- Maria Francesca Nascinbeni, composer (born c.1640)
- Francisco de Trillo y Figueroa, poet and lyricist (born 1618)