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)

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