The year 1697 in music involved some significant events.
Publications
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- Guilio Cesare Arresti – 18 Sonate da organo di varii autori (includes work by Pietro Ziani, Giovanni Bassani, Giovanni Colonna, Bernardo Pasquini, and others, as well as Arresti himself)
- Philipp Heinrich Erlebach – Harmonische Freude musicalischer Freunde
- Aurelio Paolini – Suonate da camera a 3, Op. 1 (Venice: Giuseppe Sala)
- Henry Purcell – Ten Sonata’s in Four Parts (trio sonatas), published posthumously in London (Nos. 1–4 composed c1678–79, Nos. 7–9 possibly in 1681–82, No. 10 possibly 1683–84)[1]
- Giovanni Maria Ruggieri – 10 Suonate da Chiesa, Op.4
- Daniel Speer – Grund-richtiger Unterricht der Musicalischen Kunst
Classical music
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Theoretical writings
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- Johan Georg Ahlens musikalisches Sommer-Gespräche by Johann Georg Ahle, on cadences, rhetorical figures, and modes. Second part of Ahle's Musikalische Gespräche series of treatises in form of dialogues.
- January 1 – Johann Pfeiffer, violinist and composer (died 1761)
- January 30 – Johann Joachim Quantz, flautist and composer (died 1773)
- April 16 – Johann Gottlieb Görner, organist and composer (died 1778)
- April 26 – Adam Falckenhagen, lutenist and composer (died 1754)
- May 10 – Jean-Marie Leclair, violinist and composer (died 1764)
- June 11 – Francesco Antonio Vallotti, organist, music theorist and composer (died 1780)
- November 9 – Claudio Casciolini, composer (died 1760)
- December 5 – Giuseppe de Majo, organist and composer (died 1771)
- December 6 – Carlo Arrigoni, composer (died 1744)
References
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- ^ Peter Holman and Robert Thompson, "Purcell, §1:Henry Purcell (i)", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and Robert Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
