1686 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1686.

Events

Classical music Michel Richard Delalande – Ecce nunc benedicte, S.8 Henry Du Mont – Benedic anima mea Johann Caspar Kerll Modulatio organica Toccata cromatica con durezze e ligature Marin Mariais – Pièces de viole, Livre 1 Johann Christoph Pezel – Opus musicum sonatarum praestantissimarum (The "Alphabet Sonatas") Henry Purcell Ye Tuneful Muses (attrib.) – "Lillibullero" Vasily Titov – Psaltïr' rifmovannaya (Псалтырь рифмованная or Псалтырь римфотворная), vocal polyphonic setting of the Russian psalter Giuseppe Torelli – 10 Sonate a 3, with basso continuo, Op. 1Francesco Passadore, Catalogo tematico delle composizioni di Giuseppe Torelli (1658–1709), Padova, Edizioni de I Solisti Veneti, 2007, . Robert de Visée – Livre de pièces pour la guitare

Opera Jean-Baptiste Lully Acis et Galatée, LWV 73 Armide, LWV 71 Giacomo Antonio Perti– L'incoronazione di Dario Alessandro Scarlatti – Olimpia vendicata

Births July 31 (or August 1) – Benedetto Marcello, composer (died 1739) August 17 – Nicola Porpora, composer (died 1768) September – Charles Young, organist and composer (died 1758) October 31 – Senesino, castrato singer (died 1758) December 15 – Jean-Joseph Fiocco, composer (died 1746) December 25 – Giovanni Battista Somis, violinist and composer (died 1763)

Deaths c. November – John Playford, music publisher (born 1623) probable – Augustin Pfleger, composer (born 1635)

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