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The year 1681 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- Arcangelo Corelli is employed by the electoral prince of Bavaria.
- Giovanni Legrenzi becomes assistant maestro di cappella at St Mark's, Venice.
- Jean-Baptiste Lully is appointed court secretary to King Louis XIV of France.
- Antonio Stradivari makes the Fleming violin.
Published popular music
Classical music
- Heinrich Biber – 8 Violin Sonatas, C 138-145
- Dietrich Buxtehude
- Afferte Domino gloriam honorem, BuxWV 2
- Gen Himmel zu dem Vater mein, BuxWV 32
- Kommst du Licht der Heiden, BuxWV 66
- Sicut Mose, BuxWV 97
- Ich habe Lust abzuscheiden, BuxWV 46
- Giovanni Paolo Colonna
- Motetti sacri, Op. 2
- Motetti, Op.3
- Arcangelo Corelli – Op. 1, 12 trio sonatas
- Henry Dumont
- Motets à II, III et IV parties pour voix et instruments avec la basse continue
- Benedicite Deum cæli
- Jubilate Deo
- Johann Melchoir Gletle – Ave Maria (I and II)
- Carlo Piazzi – Balletti, Op.2
- Henry Purcell – Suite for Strings, Z.770
- Alessandro Stradella – Il Barcheggio
Opera
- Domenico Freschi – Pompeo Magno in Cilicia
- Jean-Baptiste Lully – Le Triomphe de l’Amour (ballet)
- Agostino Steffani – Marco Aurelio
- Marc Antonio Ziani – La Flora (composition begun by Antonio Sartorio, who died during composition)
Publications
- Johann Wolfgang Franck – Geistliche Lieder (Compositions by Franck, Georg Böhm, and Peter Laurentius Wockenfuss)
- Andreas Werckmeister – Orgel-Probe (the first appearance of the tuning system known as the Werckmeister temperament)
Births
- January 20 – Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer (died 1732)
- March 14 – Georg Philipp Telemann, composer (died 1767)
- April 11 – Anne Danican Philidor, composer and concert organizer (died 1728)
- September 4 – Carl Heinrich Biber, composer (died 1749)
- September 28 – Johann Mattheson, composer (died 1764)
- December 14 – Giuseppe Valentini, violinist and composer (died 1753)
- date unknown – Giovanni Battista Reali, composer (died 1751)
Deaths
- May 25 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca, librettist (born 1600)
- June 27 – Ernst Christoph Homburg, librettist (born 1607)
- July 8 – Georg Neumark, hymnist (born 1621)
- October 22 – Benedetto Ferrari, composer (born c. 1603)
- date unknown – Francesco Corbetta, guitarist and composer (born c.1615)
- date unknown – Benedetto Ferrari, opera composer (born c.1603)
References
- "Francesco Corbetta (1615-1681)". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
- Balthazar, Scott L. (2013). Historical Dictionary of Opera. Scarecrow Press. p. 387. ISBN 9780810879430.