Events

Published popular music

Giovanni Battista Bassani – Armonici entusiasmi di Davide, Op. 9 (Venice)
Giovanni Bononcini
- Chi d'Amor tra le catene
- La Maddalena a'piedi di Cristo
Jacques Boyvin – Livre d'orgue I, Ton 1–8
Nicolaus Bruhns – Mein Hertz ist Bereit
Dietrich Buxtehude
- Du Lebensfürst Herr Jesu Christ, BuxWV 22
- Jubilate Domino, BuxWV 64
- Quemadmodum desiderat cervus, BuxWV 92
- Missa brevis, BuxWV 114
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- Messe pour Mr Mauroy, H.6
- Tenebrae Responsories H.127–133
- Leçon de ténèbres du Mercredi saint, H.135, 138
- Leçon de ténèbres du Jeudi saint, H.136, 139
- Leçon de ténèbres du Vendredi saint, H.137, 140
- In honorem Sancti Xaverij canticum, H.355
- In nativitatem Domini canticum, H.416
- Symphonie à 3 flûtes, H.529
- Commencement d’ouverture, H.546
François Couperin – La Steinquerque
Gilles Jullien – Premier Livre d'Orgue
Johann Kehnau – Bone Jesu, care Jesu
Georg Muffat – Apparatus Musico-Organisticus
Giovanni Domenico Partenio – Motets for two and three voices, Op. 1 (Venice: Giuseppe Sala)
Francesco Passarini – Misse brevi for eight voices and organ continuo, Op. 4 (Bologna: Pier Maria Monti)
Henry Purcell
- music for The Tempest
- music for Amphitryon, Z.572
Giuseppe Torelli
- Trumpet Sonata in D major, G.1
- Sinfonia in D major, G.2
Jean Veillot – Motets

Kurze doch deutliche Anleitung zu der lieblich- und löblichen Singekunst by Johann Georg Ahle, an enlarged and revised version of Johann Rudolf Ahle's famous singing manual, Brevis et perspicua introductio. A second edition was published in 1704.
Traité d’accompagnement pour le théorbe et le clavecin by Denis Delair

February 1 – Francesco Maria Veracini, violinist and composer (died 1768)^[3]
June 11 – Giovanni Antonio Giay, composer (died 1764)
September 15 – Ignazio Prota, composer and music teacher (died 1748)
November 22 – François Colin de Blamont, composer (died 1760)
November 24 (baptized) – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, organist, harpsichordist and composer (died 1750)^[4]
date unknown
- Francesco Barsanti, composer, recorder & oboe virtuoso; born Lucca, Toscany (IT). (Died 1775)
- Johann Tobias Krebs, organist and composer (died 1762)
probable
- Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, composer and violinist (died 1758)
- Senesino, castrato singer (died 1756)