The year 1684 in music involved some significant events.
Events Antonio Stradivari makes the Bucher, Cipriani Potter and Cobbett ex Holloway violins. An adaptation of Fletcher's Valentinian features music composed by Louis Grabu.
Classical music Giovanni Battista Bassani – Affetti canori, cantate et ariette, Op.6 Dietrich Buxtehude Dein edles Herz, der Liebe Thron, BuxWV 14 Herr auf dich traue ich, BuxWV 35 Herr nun läßt du deinen Diener, BuxWV 37 Lobe den Herrn meine Seele, BuxWV 71 Marc-Antoine Charpentier Litanies de la Vierge, H.83 Pro omnibus festis B V M, H.333 In nativitatem Domini canticum, H.414 Sur la naissance de notre Seigneur Jésus Christ, H.482 Pastorale sur la Naissance de Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ, H.483 Michel Richard de Lalande – Te Deum S.32 Domenico Gabrielli – Balletti, Op.1 Giovanni Battista Granata – Armoniosi toni di varie suonate musicali per la chitarra spagnuola . . . Opera settima Johann Krieger – Ich will in Friede fahren Isabella Leonarda – Mottetti a voce sola, Op.11 Jean-Baptiste Lully Plaude laetare galia, LWV 37 Te Deum, LWV 55 De Profundis, LWV 62 John Playford – The Division Violin Henry Purcell – From those serene and rapturous joys, Z.326 Pierre Robert – Motets pour la Chapelle du Roy Alessandro Scarlatti – Agar et Ismaele esiliati (oratorio) Giovanni Battista Vitali Sinfonia a 6 Sonate da Chiesa à due Violini, Op.9 Varie Sonate alla Francese, & all'Itagliana à sei Stromenti, Op.11
Opera John Blow – Venus and Adonis Juan Hidalgo de Polanco – Apolo y Leucotea Jean-Baptiste Lully – Amadis de Gaule
Births March 15 – Francesco Durante, composer (died 1755) June 22 – Francesco Manfredini, violinist and composer (died 1762) September 18 – Johann Gottfried Walther, composer and music theorist (died 1748) September 23 – Johann Theodor Römhild, composer (died 1756) October 30 – Maria Barbara Bach, first wife of J.S. Bach (died 1720) date unknown François d' Agincour, composer (died 1758) Georg Christian Lehms, librettist (died 1717)
Deaths April 12 – Nicola Amati, violin-maker of Cremona (born 1596) May 8 – Henri Dumont, Netherlandish composer (born 1610) July 5 – Johann Hildebrand, composer (born 1614) September 10 – Johann Rosenmüller, German composer (born 1619) October 1 – Pierre Corneille, French librettist (born 1606)
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