Music year 1687
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Overview of the music years
Further events
Music year 1687 | |
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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.
- November 7th : World premiere of the opera Achille et Polixène by Jean-Baptiste Lully (overture and 1st act) and Pascal Collasse (acts 2–5) on the libretto by Jean-Galbert de Campistron . Lully had worked on the opera before he died. It was completed by his student and secretary Pascal Collasse.
- December 26th : Marc'Antonio Ziani - L'inganno regnante o vero L'Atanagilda regina di Gottia. Libretto: Giulio Cesare Corradi . Dramma per musica in 3 acts. First performance in Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice.
- 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
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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
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Giovanni Battista Bononcini
- Symphony a quattro strumenti op. 5
- Symphony a tre strumenti op. 6
- 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)
- Giuseppe Torelli - 12 Symphony a due, tre e quattro strumenti , op.3
- 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)
- Gregorio Strozzi - Capricci da sonare harpsichords, et organi (Naples) OCLC 960194609
Vocal music
- John Blow - Ode for New Year's Day
- Giovanni Paolo Colonna - Compieta op.8
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Michel-Richard Delalande -Grand Motets
- Miserere mei Deus p. 27 (early version, revised 1720)
- Super flumina Babilonis p. 13
- Johann Wolfgang Franck - Musical devotions for voice and basso continuo (Hamburg)
- Nicolas Lebègue - Motets pour les principales festes de l'année (Paris)
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Isabella Leonarda
- Opus 13: 12 Motetti (Bologna 1687)
- Opus 14: 10 Motetti (Bologna 1687)
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
Date of birth saved
- February 1 : Johann Adam Birkenstock , German violinist and composer († 1733 )
- March 30th (baptized): Johann Balthasar Christian Freislich , German composer and organist († 1764 )
- June 7th : Gaetano Berenstadt , old castrato of German descent († 1734 )
- August 26 : Willem de Fesch , Dutch violinist and composer († 1757 )
- October 12 : Sylvius Leopold Weiss , German composer and lutenist († 1750 )
- November 23 : Jean Baptiste Senaillé , French composer and violinist († 1730 )
- December 5 : Francesco Geminiani , Italian composer and violinist († 1762 )
- December 26th : Johann Georg Pisendel , German violin virtuoso († 1755 )
- December 29th : Georg Renkewitz , German organist and organ builder († 1758 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Henry Carey , English poet and composer († 1743 )
- Johann Ernst Galliard , German oboist, organist and composer († 1749 )
- Johann Jakob Schnell , German composer, court music director and music publisher († 1754 )
Died
Date of death secured
- March 1st : Christoph Junge , German organ builder (* around 1644 )
- March 22nd : Jean-Baptiste Lully , French composer of Italian descent (* 1632 )
- March 28 : Constantijn Huygens , Dutch diplomat, poet and composer (* 1596 )
- April 25 : János Kájoni , Romanian Franciscan, composer, organ builder and printer (* 1629 )
- September 7th : Vincenzo Albrici , Italian organist and composer (* 1631 )
- November 11th : David Schedlich , German composer (* 1607 )
- December 5 : Ercole Bernabei , Italian organist and composer (* around 1622 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Thomas Strutius , organist and composer from Danzig (* 1621 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1687 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Theophil Antonicek, Jennifer Williams Brown: Ziani, Marc'Antonio. In: Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press, 2001, accessed August 20, 2020 .
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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