Music year 1688

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Music year 1688
Agostino Steffani's opera Niobe, regina di Tebe will be premiered in Munich.	Marc-Antoine Charpentier's biblical opera David et Jonathas premieres in Paris.

Events

• May : In Munich, the composer Agostino Steffani is honorably discharged as court conductor by Elector Maximilian II . He is succeeded by Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei .

Antonio Stradivari's violoncello Marylebone ; the decoration on the sides was done later by the French violin maker René Morel .

• Antonio Stradivari builds the violoncello known as Marylebone . Today's owner is the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC Another of his produced this year instruments is now known as Hill -known guitar . It belongs to the Hill Collection in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford .
• After the death of Mademoiselle de Guise, for whom he had worked since 1670, Marc-Antoine Charpentier was employed by the Jesuits as maître de chapelle (conductor) at the Church of Saint Louis and the Collège Louis-le-Grand in Paris.
• André Raison publishes the first of his two collections of organ works. The second collection will follow in 1714. This includes five organ masses in the different church modes, "Noëls variés" (arrangements and variations on popular Christmas carols), a Magnificat and various other pieces.
• Johann Jakob Walther self-publishes his work Hortulus chelicus , which contains 28 compositions. In the foreword he mentions his pride in the successful work and that he published without fear what some contemporaries egotistically keep to themselves. A second edition of the work with the title Well-planted Violinischer Lustgarten will appear in 1694.
• Giovanni Battista Bassani becomes organist and conductor at the Cathedral of Ferrara .
  • Christian Friedrich Witt goes to Nuremberg again to study with Georg Caspar Wecker in Nuremberg.

Operas and other stage works

Title page of the libretto of the opera Niobe, regina di Tebe , Munich 1688

• January 5th : The opera Niobe, regina di Tebe (Niobe, Queen in Thebes) by Agostino Steffani is premiered in the Salvatortheater in Munich. Luigi Orlandi wrote the libretto for the opera based on Book 6 of Ovid's Metamorphoses . The music of the ballets at the end of the files comes from Melchior Dardespin. They were choreographed by François Rodier. The castrato Clementin Hader sings the role of Anfione . Ten additional musicians are employed for the complex production.
• February 28 : World premiere of the biblical opera David et Jonathas by Marc-Antoine Charpentier based on the libretto by François de Paule Bretonneau at the Collège Louis-le-Grand in Paris. Despite its size, the work was originally not intended for a stand-alone performance, but as an intermède for the tragedy Saül in Latin by Father Étienne Chamillard, the five acts of which were to be recited as a spoken piece alternating with the five acts of the opera. The textual basis of both works can be found in the first book of Samuel .
• Three operas by the German composer Johann Philipp Förtsch will be premiered in Hamburg :
  • The great Alexander in Sidon (based on the libretto by Christian Heinrich Postel , based on Aurelio Aureli )
  • Saint Eugenia, or The Conversion of the City of Alexandria to Christianity (based on the libretto by Christian Heinrich Postel, probably after Girolamo Bartolommei)
  • The martyr Polyeuctes, who bit the dead in Christianity (based on the libretto by Heinrich Elmenhorst , based on Pierre Corneille )
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier - La replique de Amos
• Domenico Gabrieli
  • Il Gordiano (Dramma per Musica, Libretto: Adriano Morselli, Venice)
  • Carlo il grande (Dramma per Musica, libretto: Adriano Morselli, Venice)
  • Flavio Cuniberto (Dramma per Musica, Libretto: Matteo Noris, Modena)
• Daniel Speer - Musical Turkish Owl Mirror

Instrumental music

Chamber music

• Giovanni Battista degli Antonii - Balletti e correnti, gighe e sarabande da camera; a violino e clavicembalo o violoncello . Op. 3
• Giovanni Battista Borri - Symphony a tre, due violini e violoncello con il basso per l'organo op.1
• Gottfried Finger - Sonatae XII pro diversis instrumentis op. 1 (Amsterdam)
• Johann Krieger - 12 sonatas for two violins (Nuremberg)
• Pietro Sammartini - 10 Symphony for 2 violins, viola da gamba and bc op.2 (Florence)
• Johannes Schenck - Tyd en Konst-Oeffeningen (15 suites for viola da gamba and basso continuo) op.2 (Amsterdam)
• Giuseppe Torelli - Concertino per Camera: 12 Sonata per violino e basso continuo , op.4
• Johann Jakob Walther - Hortulus chelicus for violin solo and basso continuo

organ

• André Raison - Livre d'Orgue contenant cinq Messes… et une Offerte… (Premier livre d'Orgue)

Vocal music

• Giovanni Battista Bassani: Eco armonica delle muse op.7 (Bologna)
• Henry Purcell :
  • Bleesed are they that fear the Lord Z 5
  • O sing unto the Lord Z 44
  • The Lord is King, the earth may be glad Z 54
• Daniel Speer - Philomela angelica cantionum sacrarum

Born

Date of birth saved

• March 25 : Johann Gotthilf Ziegler , German composer and organist († 1747 )
• April 15 : Johann Friedrich Fasch , German composer († 1758 )

• July 6 : Jean-Baptiste Loeillet de Gant , flautist and composer († around 1720 )
• September 6th : Michael Engler the Younger , Silesian organ builder († 1767 )
• September 13 : Luca Antonio Predieri , Italian composer and violinist († 1760 )

• October 14 : Jacob Herman Klein , Dutch composer († 1748 )
• October 17 : Domenico Zipoli , Italian Baroque composer, organist, and missionary († 1726 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• Zacharias Hildebrandt , German organ builder († 1757 )
• Thomas Roseingrave , English composer, organist and harpsichordist († 1766 )

Died

Francesco Foggia

• January 8 : Francesco Foggia , Italian composer (* 1604 )
• January 29 : Carlo Pallavicino , Italian composer (* around 1630 )

• April 28 : Franz Rost , German clergyman, music copyist and composer (* before 1640)
• May 14 : Carlo Grossi , Italian composer (* around 1634 )

Philippe Quinault

• November 26th : Philippe Quinault , French poet and librettist (* 1635 )

See also

Portal: Music  - Overview of Wikipedia content on music

Web links

Commons : Music 1688  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Commons : Opera Libretti 1688  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernd Baselt, Karl-Ernst Bergunder: Witt [Witte], Christian Friedrich. In: Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press, 2001, accessed August 20, 2020 .