Music year 1690

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Music year 1690
The German woodwind instrument maker Johann Christoph Denner developed the clarinet in Nuremberg .

Events

• January 14th : The German woodwind instrument maker Johann Christoph Denner develops the clarinet in Nuremberg by expanding the chalumeau in such a way that it can be overblown, which was not possible before, and thus has a range appropriate to contemporary music. The notes created by overblowing were given the name "clarin register" because of their sound, which was reminiscent of that of the baroque trumpet (the way the baroque trumpet was played was the "clarin game", i.e. the development of the scale exclusively from natural tones). This gave rise to the name “clarinette” for the instrument. The clarinet did not establish itself in practical music until 1740.
• February: In Braunschweig the opera house on Hagenmarkt is completed. It was built at the request of Duke Anton Ulrich and is the third public opera in Germany after Munich and Hamburg. Johann Sigismund Kusser , whose opera Cleopatra is premiered at the opening ceremony, is appointed as the first conductor ; the libretto was probably written by Friedrich Christian Bressand based on a model by Giacomo Francesco Bussani.
• April: Arcangelo Corelli officially enters the service of the Italian cardinal , patron and librettist Pietro Ottoboni . He acted as a generous sponsor of the arts and began to rally the most important artists and musicians of the time around him. Both of them remained in close personal friendship and mutual respect throughout their lives, which was also reflected in Ottoboni's support for Corelli's family.

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber

• Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber receives a title of nobility ( Truchsess ) from Emperor Leopold I for his compositional work . From now on he is allowed to call himself “beaver of beavers”, which means a considerable social advancement. His monthly income at this point is 60 guilders, with free accommodation, wine, bread and firewood.
• Bartolomeo Cristofori is led by Ferdinando de 'Medici , the son of the Tuscan Grand Duke Cosimo III. de 'Medici , brought to his court in Florence as an instrument maker and tuner .
• After the death of his employer in Salzburg, the composer and organist Georg Muffat moves to the court of Bishop Johann Philipp von Lamberg in Passau and becomes Kapellmeister and court master of the noble boys.
• Johann Pachelbel changes from Erfurt to Stuttgart in the service of Duchess Magdalena Sibylla .

World premieres

Opera

• February 4th: The world premiere of Johann Sigismund Kusser's opera Cleopatra takes place on the occasion of the opening of the new opera in Braunschweig . The libretto was probably written by Friedrich Christian Bressand after GF Bussani.
• February: The opera La superbia d'Alessandro by Agostino Steffani based on the libretto by Ortensio Mauro is premiered in Hanover .
• February 10th: The opera Il segretto d'amore in petto del savio by Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei is premiered in Munich .

Title page of the libretto, London 1690

• Early summer: The tragicomic semi-opera in five acts The Prophetess, or the History of Dioclesian by Henry Purcell to the libretto by Thomas Betterton premieres at London's Dorset Garden Theater. The opera is about the mythical rise and fall of the Roman emperor Diocletian . The libretto is based on the drama The Prophetess by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger from 1622, which was adapted by the renowned actor and theater director Betterton "with changes and additions, like an opera". Betterton hired Purcell to write the music and added extended scenes for it. Except for a few streamlining of the plot and wording, large parts of the libretto are identical to the original. The first performance was preceded by a spoken prologue by John Dryden , but due to its very direct reference to the war of the two kings of William III. and the reign of Mary II fell victim to censorship by the Earl of Dorset.

• Marc-Antoine Charpentier - Le Jugement de Paris
• Two operas by Alessandro Scarlatti have world premieres in Rome:
  • La Statira - Scarlatti composed the opera for his patron Pietro Ottoboni the Younger and conducts it in the reopened Roman Teatro Tordinona
  • La Rosaura - based on the libretto GB Lucini
• Four operas by Johann Philipp Förtsch will be premiered:
  • Die Groß-Müthige Thalestris, or Last Queen of the Amazons on the libretto by Christian Heinrich Postel in Hamburg
  • Ancile romanum, that is the Roman Empire's lucky shield on the libretto by Christian Heinrich Postel in Hamburg
  • Bajazeth and Tamerlan based on the libretto by Christian Heinrich Postel (after Giulio Cesare Corradi ) in Hamburg
  • The erring knight Don Quixotte de la Mancia on the libretto by Hinrich Hinsch (after Miguel de Cervantes ).
• The opera Chi la dura la vince - Dramma Musicale (German: "Whoever endures, wins"; also known under the name "Arminio") by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber based on the libretto by Francesco Maria Raffaelini took place between December 5, 1690 and mid First performance in 1692.
• Pascal Collasse - The tragedy lyrique Énée et Lavinie based on a libretto by Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle (1657–1757) will be premiered on December 16, 1690 at the Académie royale de musique in Paris.
• Marc'Antonio Ziani - La falsirena. Libretto: Rinaldo Cialli. Dramma per musica . First performance during the carnival season at the Teatro Sant'Angelo Venice.

Incidental music

• Henry Purcell
  • Music for Amphitryon by John Dryden .
  • Music for John Dryden's version of Shakespeare's The Tempest , including Full fathom five and Come unto these yellow sands.

Instrumental music

Ensemble music

• Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
  • Balletti à 6 in C major for violin, 2 violas, 2 trumpets, harpsichord and violone (ca.1690)
• André Danican Philidor
  • La Marche des pompes funèbres pour la Dauphine.

Chamber music

• Giovanni Battista degli Antonii
  • Ricercate a violino, e violoncello o clavicembalo , op.5
  • Balletti for violin and violoncello or harpsichord, op.6
• François Couperin - Sonades en trio (trio sonatas; ca.1690 ):
  • L'Astrée, La Pucelle, La Steinkerque, La Superbe, La Visionnaire
• Giovanni Maria Ruggieri
  • 10 Triosonaten scherzi geniali ridotti a regola Armonica in dieci Sonata da camera a tre op. 2

organ

• François Couperin
  • Pièces d'orgue consistant en deux messes (Paris)
• Georg Muffat
  • Apparatus Musico Organisticus , 12 toccatas and three variations for organ (or harpsichord)

Vocal music

• Giovanni Battista Bassani
  • Resi armonici in motetti op.8 (Bologna)
  • Armonici entusiasmi di Davide, overo salmi concertati a quattro voci con violini, e suoi ripieni, con altri salmi a due, e tre voci con violini Op. 9 (Venice)
• Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
  • Missa Alleluia in C major (between 1690 and 1698)

• Monsieur de Busset
  • Recueille d'air sérieux et à boire

• Marc Antoine Charpentier
  • Magnificat H 80
• Michel-Richard Delalande
  • Dies Irae (p. 31), composed on the occasion of the death of the Dauphine Marie-Anne de Bavière
• Diego Durón
  • Ya rompen sus velos  : Villancico de Navidad for eight voices and basso continuo
• Henry Purcell
  • Of old when heroes thought it base, ode for soloists choir and instruments, The Yorkshire Feast Song Z 333, premiered on March 27, OCLC 1158199469
  • Arise, my muse, Ode for Queen Mary 's birthday [ Arise, my muse, Ode for Queen Mary II's birthday] OCLC 725563552

Publications

• The short but clear guide to the lovely and laudable art of singing by Johann Georg Ahle appears. It is an expanded and revised version of the work Brevis et perspicua introductio by his father Johann Rudolph Ahle . A second edition will appear in 1704.

Instrument making

• The violin known today under the name “ Leopold Auer” , the violas “ Toskanische, Medici (Contralto)” and “ Toskanische, Medici (Tenor)” as well as the violoncellos “ Medici, Tuscan” , “ Segelman, Hart”, “ Bonjour” ( around 1690) and " Barjansky " (around 1690) are made in Antonio Stradivari's workshop.

Born

Date of birth saved

• January 23 : Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel , German composer and music theorist († 1749 )
• February 1 : Francesco Maria Veracini , Italian violinist and composer († 1768 )
• February 21 : Christoph Stoltzenberg , German composer († 1764 )

• March 1 : Matthias Christoph Wiedeburg , German cantor, conductor and composer († 1745 )
• April 13 : Joachim Wagner , German organ builder († 1749 )
• April 25 (baptized): Gottlieb Muffat , Austrian organist and composer († 1770 )

• June 11 : Giovanni Antonio Giay , Italian composer († 1764 )
• July 7th : Johann Tobias Krebs , German organist, composer and cantor († 1762 )

• September 15 : Ignazio Prota , Italian composer and music teacher († 1748 )
• September 18 : Johann Wilhelm Meyer , Swiss Reformed clergyman and hymn poet († 1767 )
• October 9 (baptized): Robert Woodcock , English painter, musician and composer († 1738 )

• November 22nd : François Colin de Blamont , French composer († 1760 )
• November 24th (baptized): Carl Theodorus Pachelbel , American organist and composer of German origin († 1750 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• Francesco Barsanti , Italian composer, oboist and flutist († 1770 )
• Fortunato Chelleri , German-Italian conductor and composer († 1757 )

Born around 1690

• William Babell , English composer († 1723 )
• Paolo Benedetto Bellinzani , Italian composer († 1757)
• Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello , Italian composer and violinist († 1758 )
• Martin Friedrich Cannabich , German composer, oboist and flautist († 1773 )
• Joseph Meck , German conductor, composer and violin virtuoso to the Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt († 1758)
• Vicent Rodríguez Monllor , composer and organist at the Cathedral of Valencia († 1760 )
• Jacques-Christophe Naudot , French composer and flautist († 1763 )
• Andrea Pacini , Italian old castrato, opera singer, composer and clergyman († 1764 )
• Angelo Maria Scaccia , Italian composer and violinist († 1761 )
• Antonio Vandini , Italian cellist and Baroque composer († 1778)
• Johann Sigismund Weiss , German lutenist († 1737 )

Died

Date of death secured

Caspar Ziegler

• April 17th : Caspar Ziegler , German lawyer, poet and composer (* 1621 )

Giovanni Lenzei

• May 27 : Giovanni Lenzei , Italian composer (* 1626 )

• July 10 : Domenico Gabrielli , Italian cellist and composer (* 1651 )
• September 27 : Bertrand "Bénigne" de Bacilly , French composer and music theorist (* around 1625)
• December 19 : Gustav Düben , Swedish court conductor, organist and composer (* around 1628 )

Exact date of death unknown

• Bonaventura Aliotti , Italian organist and composer (* 1640 )

Died after 1690

• Nicola Acerbo , Italian composer and music teacher (* before 1670 )

See also

Portal: Music  - Overview of Wikipedia content on music

Web links

Commons : Music 1690  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Commons : Opera Libretti 1690  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Theophil Antonicek, Jennifer Williams Brown: Ziani, Marc'Antonio. In: Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press, 2001, accessed August 20, 2020 .