Music year 1687

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Music year 1687
Lully's grave
On March 22nd, the composer Jean-Baptiste Lully , the founder of the national opera in France , dies

Events

  • For the celebration of the convalescence of King Louis XIV , who had had serious health problems, Jean-Baptiste Lully edited his Te Deum, composed in 1678, and performed it with 150 musicians at his own expense.
  • January 8th : While conducting his revised Te Deum , Jean-Baptiste Lully rams the baton in his foot. It develops gangrene , and because he refuses a toe amputated to let the composer died on 22 March at his injury. He is buried in Notre-Dame-des-Victoires in Paris with great sympathy.
  • Arcangelo Corelli is fully in the service of the wealthy cardinal and patron of the arts Benedetto Pamphili and moves together with his partner and student Matteo Fornari in Pamphili's Palazzo, where he conducts concerts with 80 or more participants as Kapellmeister . In addition to this official position, Corelli also fulfills numerous other obligations, for example in Rome leading large concerts in honor of James II of England , the French King Louis XIV and the Spanish Queen Marie Louise d'Orléans , in which he has orchestras directs up to 150 musicians.
  • The English composer John Blow takes over the direction of the choir at St Paul's Cathedral .
  • The Italian composer Giovanni Battista degli Antonii became organist at the Basilica of San Giacomo Maggiore in Bologna, a task that he held until 1698.
  • The famous Italian old castrato Siface (aka Giovanni Francesco Grossi) is on tour in London, where Henry Purcell composes a harpsichord piece “ Sefauchi's Farewell ” as a farewell , which was published in 1689 in “ The second part of Musick's Hand-maid ” by Playford . In December the singer is back in Italy to perform in Naples.
  • Marc'Antonio Ziani becomes a member of the Venetian Congregation Santa Cecilia.

Operas and other stage works

  • The chamber opera La descente d'Orphée aux enfers by Marc-Antoine Charpentier will be completed at the beginning of the year. It was commissioned by the House of Guise , for which the composer was working at the time. It is based on Book 10 of Ovid's Metamorphoses . This is Charpentier's second occupation with this subject, as he had already composed his cantata Orphée descendant aux enfers (H 471) for three male voices (Orpheus, Tantalus and Ixion) a few years earlier , which is now regarded as the first French cantata. The librettist of his opera is not known.
  • January 18 : The opera Alarico il Baltha, cioè L'audace re de Goti by Agostino Steffani based on the libretto by Luigi Orlandi is premiered in the Hoftheater in Munich.
Achille et Polixène, Tragédie en musique by J.-B. Lully and P. Colasse, title page of the libretto, published 1687
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier - Idylle sur le retour de la santé du roi ( The joy of the king's recovery )
  • Antonio Draghi - La vendetta dell'onestà
  • Alessandro Scarlatti - Dal male il bene (new version of the opera Tutto il mal non vien per nuocere from 1681 )

Oratorio

  • Giovanni Lenzei - Erodiade (on libretto by Neri and Piccioli)
  • Marc'Antonio Ziani
    • Davide liberato , missing

Instrumental music

  • Giovanni Battista degli Antoni
    • Ricercate sopra il violoncello o clavicembalo… opera prima and Ricercate per il violino , Op. 1
    • Balletti e correnti, gighe e sarabande for violin and harpsichord or violoncello, op.3
  • Nicola Matteis - Ayres for the violin , book 4
  • Johann Adam Reincken - Hortus Musicus / recentibus aliquot Flosculis / Sonatas, / Allemanden, / Couranten, / Sarabanden / et / Giquen, / Cum 2 violin, Viola et Basso / continuo (6 partitas, Hamburg 1687)
  • Giovani Battista degli Antoni - Versetti per tutti li tuoni, tanto naturali for organ, op.2
  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre - Les pièces de clavessin (Paris, 1687; first book with harpsichord pieces, second to follow in 1707)
  • Nicolas Lebègue - Le Second Livre de Clavessin (Paris, 1687; the first book was published in 1677)

Vocal music

Textbooks

  • Le Sieur Danoville - L'Art de toucher le Dessus et Basse de Violle avec des Principes, des Regles & Observations si intelligibles, qu'on peut acquerir la perfection de cette belle Science en peu de temps, & mesme sans le secours d'aucun Maistre . Paris
  • Jean Rousseau - Traité de la viole
  • Daniel Speer - Reasonably correct / short / easy and necessary teaching of musical art. How to sing chorale and figurative / to tract the general bass / and to learn to compose in a short time . (Ulm)

Born

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Died

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Johannes Caioni
Ercole Bernabei

Exact date of death unknown

See also

Portal: Music  - Overview of Wikipedia content on music

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Commons : Music 1687  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Theophil Antonicek, Jennifer Williams Brown: Ziani, Marc'Antonio. In: Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press, 2001, accessed August 20, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Booklet text by Lionel Sawkins on the CD: Delalande - Dies Irae p. 31 & Miserere p. 27 , La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe, 1991, pp. 12–15, here: 14
  3. ↑ See booklet for the CD: Michel Richard Delalande - Te Deum (+ Super flumina Babilonis & Confitebor tibi Domine ), Les Arts florissants, William Christie, harmonia mundi, 1991/2001