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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)[1]
 - date unknown – Benedetto Ferrari, opera composer (born c.1603)[2]
 
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.
 
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