Music year 1696
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Overview of the music years
Further events
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Events
- Giovanni Battista Bononcini becomes a member of the court orchestra of Emperor Leopold I in Vienna .
- At this time Johann Joseph Fux was organist at the Schottenstift (or in the Schottenkirche ) in Vienna and on June 5th he married Juliana Clara, daughter of the Lower Austrian government secretary Johann Josef Schnitzenbaum. An imperial chamber musician is one of his witnesses.
- The soprano Matteuccio , famous as the "Nightingale of Naples", sings for the "Music Emperor" Leopold I in Vienna in the first half of the year and is truly rewarded for his singing skills. Nevertheless, the singer is returning to Naples in time to appear in Alessandro Scarlatti's Serenata Venere, Adone et Amore in July during the fairytale festivities for the opening of the sea promenade in the villa of the Spanish viceroy in Posillipo .
- Giacomo Antonio Perti becomes conductor at the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna . He will do this for sixty years.
- Francesco Antonio Pistocchi , together with his friend Giuseppe Torelli and Nicola Paris, was recruited by Margrave Georg Friedrich II of Brandenburg-Ansbach and worked as Maestro di Cappella (Kapellmeister).
- Agostino Steffani moves to Brussels .
World premieres
Stage works
Opera
- February 25th : The tragedy Mahumet II by Reinhard Keizer based on the libretto by Friedrich Christian Bressand has its world premiere at the Theater am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg . Presumably the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II was used by Keizer as a model.
- February: The Singspiel Circe or the Ulisses first part by Reinhard Keizer based on the libretto by Friedrich Christian Bressand is performed for the first time in the Hägen town hall in Braunschweig .
- February: The Singspiel Penelope or Ulysses anders Theil by Reinhard Keizer based on the libretto by Friedrich Christian Bressand is premiered in the Hägen town hall in Braunschweig.
- May 1st : The opera Almansorre in Alimena by Carlo Francesco Pollarolo is premiered in the Teatro Comunale of Reggio Emilia , the sets were created by the brothers Francesco and Ferdinando Bibiena . The famous alto Siface appears in the title role, who will be murdered only a year later.
- July 15 : Festive world premiere of Alessandro Scarlatti's Serenata Venere, Adone et Amore (also: Dal giardin del piacere ; libretto: Francesco Maria Paglia) in the seaside gardens of the villa of the Spanish viceroy in Posillipo near Naples. Matteuccio sings the role of Adonis .
- September 20 : The world premiere of Carlo Francesco Pollarolo's Tito Manlio based on the libretto by Matteo Noris takes place in the theater of Prince Ferdinando de 'Medici in the summer residence of the Grand Duke of Tuscany in Pratolino , before the following carnival season in the Teatro San Giovanni Crisostomo with great success is performed in Venice.
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December 27th : The opera Il trionfo di Camilla regina de Volsci by Giovanni Battista Bononcini is premiered at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples . Other works by Bononcini that will be performed for the first time this year are:
- the opera L'amore eroica fra pastori
- the Serenata Amor per amore
- Two operas by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber will be premiered in Salzburg :
- Alfonsus hujus nominis decimus Hisparniarum rex ... (C. App. 21) based on the libretto by Augustin Kendlinger; only received text
- Boni corvinon dissimilia ... (C. App. 22); only received text
- Reinhard Keizer's singspiel Orpheus based on the libretto by Friedrich Christian Bressand will be performed for the first time in the Hägen town hall in Braunschweig.
- In Venice, the opera Tirsi will have its world premiere with music by Antonio Lotti , Antonio Caldara and Attilio Ariosti as well as the text by Apostolo Zeno .
- The “Singe Game” The Winning Alcides by Agostino Steffani based on the libretto by Ortensio Mauro will be performed for the first time in Hamburg at the Theater am Gänsemarkt .
- Tomaso Albinoni - Zenone, Imperator d'Oriente
- Giuseppe Aldrovandini - Dafni
- John Eccles - The Loves of Mars and Venus (with Gottfried Finger, London)
- Johann Philipp Krieger - The Libyan Thalestris
- Bernardo Pasquini - Radamisto
Instrumental music
Chamber music
- Henrico Albicastro - "Il giardino armonico sacro-profano di dodici suonate in due parti, parte I dell'opera terza continente VI suonate a tre stromenti col basso per l'organo" (Bruges)
- Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber - Harmonia Artificioso-Ariosa Diversimodè accordata et In septem Partes vel Partias distributa à 3rd instrum:, thus " Artful , melodious echo in different moods and arranged in seven parts or parts for three instruments"
- Dieterich Buxtehude - VII suonate , op.2
- Johann Paul von Westhoff - 6 suites for violin alone (Dresden)
harpsichord
- Johann Kuhnau - 7 Sonatas: Fresh Clavier Fruits
organ
- Giovanni Battista degli Antonii - Versetti for organ, op.7
- Franz Xaver Murschhauser - Octi-tonium novum organicum, octo tonis ecclesiasticis, ad Psalmos, & magnificat (for organ)
Vocal music
- July 11th : The Missa S. Henrici in C major (C. 6) by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber is performed for the first time. Biber composed the work when his daughter Maria Anna Magdalena entered the Benedictine women's monastery in Nonnberg as a nun.
- John Blow - Ode on the Death of Purcell
Instrument making
- In Antonio Stradivari's workshop , the violas known today as Archinto and Viola des Cuarteto Real are produced, as well as the cellos Bonjour , Prince Gursky and Lord Aylesford .
Born
Date of birth saved
- February 10 : Johann Melchior Molter , German violinist, composer and conductor († 1765 )
- February 17 : Ernst Gottlieb Baron , German composer, music theorist and lutenist († 1760 )
- February 29 : Esprit Antoine Blanchard , French music master, royal conductor at the French court and composer († 1770 )
- April 2 : Francesca Cuzzoni , Italian soprano († 1778 )
- June 2 : Johann Caspar Vogler , German organist and composer († 1763 )
- August 12 : Maurice Greene , English composer and organist († 1755 )
- August 31 : Johann Paul Kunzen , German organist and composer († 1757 )
- November 11th : Andrea Zani , Italian violinist and composer († 1757 )
- December 25th : Johann Ernst IV. , Duke of Saxe-Weimar and composer († 1715 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- baptized on April 2nd (at the age of approx. 2 months): Francesca Cuzzoni , Italian soprano, Handel interpreter († 1778 )
- Anna Maria dal violin , Italian violinist and violin teacher († 1782 )
Died
- April 21 : Andrés de Sola , Spanish composer and organist (* 1634 )
- May 26 : Heinrich Schwemmer , German composer (* 1621 )
- June 6 : Vincenzo Albrici , Italian organist and composer (* 1631 )
- June 29 : Michel Lambert , French singer and composer (* 1610 )
- July 25 : Clamor Heinrich Abel , German composer, violinist and organist (* 1634 )
- August 19 : Conrad Höffler , German composer and gambist (* 1647 )
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- September 16 : Lambert Pietkin , Belgian composer and organist (* 1613 )
- September 17th : Daniel Daniélis , conductor and composer from the Principality of Liège (baptized 1635 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1696 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1696 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ^ Almansorre in Alimena (Carlo Francesco Pollarolo) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .