Music year 1686

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Music year 1686
The opera Armide , which premiered on February 15, is the last completed opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully .	The libretto for the opera is by Philippe Quinault . The work is considered the masterful climax of their collaboration.

Events

• Antonio Giannettini is appointed court conductor in Modena .
• The Italian composer Agostino Steffani is appointed Munich court conductor.
• The English organist Vaughan Richardson became organist at Worcester Cathedral in March 1686 .
• Until her death in 1686, Eleonora Magdalena of Mantua-Nevers-Gonzaga , the third wife of Emperor Ferdinand III. , in addition to the emperor's court orchestra, a 26-person band.
• The singer Francesco Antonio Pistocchi entered the service of Ranuccio II Farnese , the Duke of Parma and Piacenza .
• Giuseppe Torelli is accepted into the Capella musicale at San Petronio in Bologna as tenor violist .
• After studying composition and counterpoint with Georg Caspar Wecker in Nuremberg, Christian Friedrich Witt was hired on June 1, 1686 as chamber organist at the court in Gotha .
• Marc'Antonio Ziani becomes maestro di cappella di chiesa on September 28, 1686 with Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga , the last Duke of Mantua .

Operas and other stage works

• January: The opera Servio Tullio, a “dramma per musica” in three acts by Agostino Steffani based on the libretto by Ventura Terzago , is premiered in the Hoftheater in Munich. The French composer Melchior d'Ardespin wrote ballet music for this opera.
• January 28: The Ballet de la jeunesse by Michel-Richard Delalande to a libretto by Antoine Morel (around 1648–1711) is performed in the petit théâtre [small theater] in Versailles. It consists of a prologue and three intermediates. There were further performances on February 4th, 11th, 18th and 21st. It was printed in the same year by Christophe Ballard in Paris.

Armide , title page of the first edition of the score, Paris 1686

Lully: Enfin il est en ma puissance from Armide (1686), sung by Guillemette Laurens , 1992

• February 15 : The Tragédie en musique Armide by the Italian composer Jean-Baptiste Lully based on the libretto by Philippe Quinault is premiered at the Thèâtre du Palais-Royale in Paris. The premiere does not take place at the court of King Louis XIV , because Lully has fallen out of favor and the king no longer receives him. Lully hoped, however, to regain the king's protection.
• September 6th : The Pastorale heroïque Acis et Galatée by Jean-Baptiste Lully based on the libretto by Jean-Galbert de Campistron is given for the first time at Anet Castle on the occasion of a Dauphin's hunting party . The opera is a subtle homage to the heir to the throne and thus to King Louis XIV.
• December 26th : Domenico Gabrielli's opera Il Maurizio is premiered in the Teatro San Salvatore in Venice. The opera was a great success and in the following 20 years saw a whole series of performances on various stages in Italy (some in a revised form)
• Johann Wolfgang Franck
  • The happy Grand Vezier Cara Mustapha, first part, next to the gruesome siege and storming of the imperial resident city of Vienna (2 parts, Hamburg , Theater am Gänsemarkt )
  • The German opera Die Drey Töchter des Cecrops by Johann Wolfgang Franck , which premiered in Hamburg in 1680, was probably performed in Ansbach in an extended version .
• Domenico Gabrieli
  • Le generose gare tra Cesare e Pompeo (Dramma per Musica, libretto: Rinaldo Cialli, Venice)
  • Il Mauritio (Dramma per Musica, libretto: Adriano Morselli, 1686, Venice)
• Carlo Pallavicino
  • January 18 : Carlo Pallavicino's opera Amore inamorato with the libretto by Matteo Noris , premiered during the carnival season in San Giovanni Grisostomo
  • Didone delirante, libretto: Antonio Franceschi, Dramma per musica in 3 acts, premiered in Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice
  • L'amazone corsara ovvero L'Alvida regina de 'Goti, libretto: Giulio Cesare Corradi , Dramma per musica in 3 acts, premiered in Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice
  • Elmiro re di Corinto, libretto: Vincenzo Grimani and Girolamo Frisari, Dramma per musica in 3 acts, premiered in San Giovanni Grisostomo in Venice
• Giacomo Antonio Perti
  • L'Incoronazione di Dario (Libretto: Adriano Morselli, Bologna)
  • La Flavia (Libretto: Giorgio Maria Rapparini , Bologna)
• Bernardo Sabadini - Furio Camillo
• Alessandro Scarlatti
  • Clearco in Negroponte
  • Rosmene (Rome, Palazzo Doria-Pamphilj )
• Johannes Schenck
  • Opera op de Zinspreuk “Zonder Spys en Wyn, Kan geen Liefde zyn”. This opera was one of the first in the Dutch language. It was reconstructed under the title Bacchus, Ceres and Venus , because the original sheet music is no longer available, but many parts have survived in other editions. The libretto is by Govard Bidloo .
• Marc'Antonio Ziani
  • L'Alcibiade is performed in Modena in 1680 after its premiere.
  • Tullo Ostilio, Alba soggiogata da Romani was performed in Reggio after it was premiered in Venice during the Carnival season of 1685.
• The defeated oven, composer and librettist unknown, music lost. First performance in Leipzig, printed in Leipzig by Johann Georg. The plant celebrated the victory of the imperial, Bavarian, Saxon and Brandenburg troops against the Ottoman Empire . It consists of a prologue and three acts, divided into individual scenes, 32 arias and recitatives. OCLC 504445170

Instrumental music

Chamber music

• Giovanni Battista Bononcini - Symphony a tre istromenti col basso per l'organo op.4 (Bologna)
• Robert Carr - The Delightful Companion, solo pieces for recorder
• Gottfried Finger - Sonata for three recorders OCLC 724549009
• Carolus Hacquart
  • Harmonia parnassia sonatarum op. 2, a collection of trio sonatas and quartet sonatas
  • Chelys op.3, 12 suites for viola da gamba and basso continuo (The Hague)
• Marin Marais - Premier livre de pièces à une et à deux violes (1st book with viol pieces ; without continuo part, which was not published until 1689)
• Johann Christoph Pezel - Opus Musicum Sonatarum Praestantissimarum Senis Instrumentis (published by Balthasar Christoph Wust in Frankfurt) Instructum
• Giuseppe Torelli
  • 10 Sonata a tre stromenti con il basso continuo , op.1
  • 12 Concerti da camera a due violini e basso, op.2
• Robert de Visée - Livre de pièces pour la guitar

organ

• Johann Caspar von Kerll - Modulatio organica super Magnificat octo ecclesiasticis Tonis respondens (arrangements of the Magnificat in the 8 church tones, Munich 1686)

Vocal music

Spiritually

• Sebastiano Cherici
  • Compieta concertata op.3 OCLC 1114050825
  • Il trionfo della fede ne 'sponsali di Sofronia, ed' Olindo , oratorio (first performance: November 22, 1686 in Ferrara ) OCLC 762007856
• Giovanni Paolo Colonna
  • La profezia d'Eliseo nell'assedio di Samaria , Oratorio (Modena 1686) OCLC 910918236 The first performance took place on March 16, 1686 in Modena. It is Colonna's eleventh oratorio.
  • Absalonne , Oratory (Modena, 1686) OCLC 658508387
  • Il Mosè legato di Dio e liberator del popolo ebreo , Oratorio, Modena
  • Il secondo libro de salmi brevi a otto voci con uno o due organi se piace con il Te Deum op.7 (Bologna, 1686) OCLC 658601556
• Henry Dumont - Motets pour la Chapelle du Roi, printed posthumously by Christophe -rd in Paris, 1686
• Johann Philipp Krieger - The Righteous Are Gathered Away , funeral music for soprano, alto, tenor and bass with string orchestra and organ
• Isabella Leonarda - 14 Motetti a voce sola op.12 (Novara 1686)
• Jean-Baptiste Lully- Notus in Judea (Grand motet, 1685 or 1686)
• Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers - Les Offices divins à l'usage des dames et demoiselles, collection of motets for use at the Saint Cyr boarding school for girls
• Wassili Polikarpowitsch Titow - Psaltïr 'rifmovannaya ( Псалтырь рифмованная or Псалтырь римфотворная )
• Marc'Antonio Zianii
  • La Giuditta , oratorio (performed in Modena in 1686)

Worldly

• Henry Purcell
  • An ape, a lion, a fox and an ass, Catch Z 241
  • Drink on till night be spent, Catch Z 248
  • Full bags, a brisk bottle , Catch Z 249
  • He that drinks is immortal , Catch Z 254
  • Once in our lives let us drink to our wives, Catch Z 264
  • The Macedon youth , Catch Z 276
  • The miller's daughter , Catch Z 277
  • 'Tis too late for a coach , Catch Z 280
  • Under a green elm lies Luke Shepherd's helmet , Catch Z 285
  • Under this stone lies Gabriel John , Catch Z 286
  • When V and I together meet , Catch Z 287
  • Wine in a morning makes us frolic and gay , Catch Z 289
  • Ye Tuneful Muses , Ode Z 344
  • Whilst Cynthia sung, all angry winds lay still , Song Z 438
  • Come, dear companions of the Arcadian fields , Song Z 483
  • How great are the blessings' A Health to King James , Song Z 483
  • Saccharissa's grown old , Song Z 507
  • Sylvia, 'tis true you're fair , Song Z 512
  • When Teucer from his father fled , Song Z 522

Music theoretical works and textbooks

• William Rogers - A New and Easie Method to Learn to Sing by Book
• Andreas Werckmeister - Musicae mathematicae hodegus curiosus, or more correctly musical guide. Calvisi, Franckfurt

Instrument making

• The Collezione Tagliavini in the church of San Colombano in Bologna owns a harpsichord built in 1686 by the harpsichord maker Padre Fabio da Bologna.

10-string Hamburger Cithrinchen by Hinrich Kopp

• Hinrich Kopp builds the Hamburg Cithrinchen , a smaller version of the cister with a bell-shaped body.
• Joachim Tielke builds a baryton in Hamburg , which is now part of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

• Antonio Stradivari completed the violin known today as the Golden Bell .

Born

Date of birth saved

• April 23 : Bernard Gates , English composer, choir singer and conductor († 1773 )
• July 5 : Christoph Raupach , German organist and composer († 1758 )
• July 24 : Benedetto Marcello , Italian Baroque composer († 1739 )
• August 17th : Nicola Antonio Porpora , Italian composer and singing teacher († 1768 )
• August 19 : Antonio Tonelli de Pietri , Italian cellist and composer († 1765 )
• August 29 (baptism date): Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel , German composer and organist († 1764 )

• October 22 : Georg Balthasar Schott , German composer, cantor and organist († 1736 )
• October 31 : Francesco Bernardi, called Senesino , Italian castrato and opera singer in London († 1758)

• December 15 : Jean-Joseph Fiocco , Flemish composer and conductor († 1746 )
• December 25 : Giovanni Battista Somis , Italian violinist and composer († 1763)

Exact date of birth unknown

• Nicholás Bertrand , French instrument maker († 1735)

• Giuseppe Besozzi , Italian oboist († 1760 )
• François Campion , French theorbist, composer and music theorist († 1747 )
• Andrea Stefano Fiorè , Italian composer († 1732 )

Died

Date of death secured

• April 19 : Matthias Tretzscher , German organ builder (* 1626 )
• June 18 : Johann Quirsfeld , German Protestant theologian and cantor (* 1642 )
• August 6 : Paul Hainlein , German composer and trumpet maker (* 1626 )

Exact date of death unknown

• Johann Balthasar Erben , German Kapellmeister and composer (* 1626 )
• Hieronymus F. Kynseker , instrument maker (* 1636 )
• Augustin Pfleger , composer and conductor of Bohemian origin (* 1635 )

John Playford

• John Playford , English music publisher (* 1623 )
• Antonio Rivani , called Ciccolino, Italian castrato with a soprano voice (* 1629 )
• Jost Sieburg , German organ builder (* around 1605 )

See also

Portal: Music  - Overview of Wikipedia content on music

Web links

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Digital copies

1. ↑ de Visee: Livre de pièces pour la guitare as a digitized version at the International Music Score Library Project
2. ^ Il Mosè legato di Dio e liberator del popolo ebreo as a digital copy at the IMSLP
3. ^ William Rogers: A New and Easie Method to Learn to Sing by Book as digitized version in the International Music Score Library Project
4. ↑ Musicae mathematicae hodegus curiosus, or more correctly musical guide as a digital copy in the digital library of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Individual evidence

1. ^ David Newsholme: World of Worcester: rediscovered sacred music of William Davis . In: The Musical Times . tape 156 , no. 1931 , 2015, p. 73-49 , JSTOR : 24615690 (English).
2. ^ Marko Deisinger: patron and artist. Studies on the artistic endeavors of Empress Eleonora II at the Viennese court (1651–1686) . In: Acta Musicologica . tape 85 , no. 1 , 2013, p. 44-73 , JSTOR : 24595485 .
3. ^ Huub van der Linden: A Bio-bibliographical Approach to the Circulation of Italian Oratorio around 1700: The Case of Francesco Pistocchi and "Il martirio di san Adriano . In: Archiv für Musikwissenschaft . Band 68 , no. 1 . Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011, p. 29-60 , JSTOR : 41329716 (English).
4. ↑ Anne Schnoebelen, Marc Vanscheeuwijck: Torelli, Giuseppe. In: Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press, 2001, accessed August 19, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Bernd Baselt, Karl-Ernst Bergunder: Witt [Witte], Christian Friedrich. In: Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press, 2001, accessed August 20, 2020 . 
6. ^ ^{A b} Theophil Antonicek, Jennifer Williams Brown: Ziani, Marc'Antonio. In: Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press, 2001, accessed August 20, 2020 . 
7. ^ Il Maurizio (Domenico Gabrielli) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
8. ↑ Mark Rathey: Rehearsal for the opera-remarks on a lost composition by Johann Kuhnau from 1683 . In: Early Music . tape 42 , p. 409-420 , JSTOR : 43307084 (English).
9. ↑ Marc Vanscheeuwijck: Music Reviews TO ORATORIO BY GIOVANNI PAOLO COLONNA . In: Notes . tape 71 , no. 3 , March 2015, p. 563-566 , JSTOR : 26397502 (English).
10. ↑ Alessandra Mazzanti: Tagliavini. In: http://www.fabiodabologna.it . Retrieved August 18, 2020 (Italian). 
11. ^ Baryton | Tielke, Joachim | V&A Search the Collections. In: http://collections.vam.ac.uk . Victoria and Albert Museum, August 17, 2020, accessed August 17, 2020 .