Events

February – Richard Leveridge, Daniel Purcell and Jeremiah Clarke collaborate on the music for an adaptation of Fletcher's The Island Princess.^[1]
John Blow is appointed to the newly created post of Composer to the Chapel Royal in England.^[2]
Antonio Caldara appointed maestro di cappella da chiesa e del teatro to Ferdinando Carlo, the last Gonzaga Duke of Mantua.^[3]
Quirinus Blankenburg is appointed organist at the Nieuwe Kerk in The Hague (however, he only started working there in 1702 after the new organ was completed).

Classical music

Carlo Agostino Badia
- Imeneo trionfante, serenata for the wedding of Joseph I and Wilhelmine Amalie of Braunschweig-Lüneburg
- Tributi armonici, 12 chamber cantatas (published circa 1699)
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber – Sonata violino solo representativa
Giovanni Battista Brevi – La devotione canora: motetti, libro II, motets for voice and basso continuo
Antonio Caldara
- Suonate da camera, op. 2; twelve trio sonatas
- Cantate da camera a voce sola, op. 3; twelve cantatas
André Campra
- Carnaval de Venise
- Missa 'Ad majorem Dei gloriam'
- Motets, Livre 2
Michel Richard Delalande – Confitebor tibi Domine in consilio, S.56
Rocco Greco – 31 sinfonie, 10 passacaglie, 11 brani strumentali
Nicolas de Grigny – Premier livre d'orgue, an organ Mass and hymn settings, comprising 42 pieces; second edition published in 1711
George Frideric Handel – Trio Sonata in G minor, HWV 387
Johann Pachelbel – Hexachordum Apollinis, six arias with variations for keyboard
Daniel Purcell – Ode for St Cecilia's Day, the second of the three such pieces by the composer
Alessandro Scarlatti – Clori mia, Clori bella, H.129

The first issue of Mercurius Musicus: or, the Monthly Collection of New Teaching Songs, one of the earliest planned periodicals of music scores, was published in London

Antonio Caldara – L'oracolo in sogno^[3]
Carlo Agostino Badia – Il Narciso
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber – Trattenimento musicale del'ossequio di Salisburgo (large cantata; his last)
Francesco Gasparini – Mirena e Floro
Johann Mattheson – Die Plejades
Antonio Quintavalle, Antonio Caldara, and Antonio Pollarolo – L'oracolo in sogno
Alessandro Scarlatti – Gl'Inganni felici^[4]

Johan Georg Ahlens musikalisches Herbst-Gespräche by Johann Georg Ahle, on consonance and dissonance. Third part of Ahle's Musikalische Gespräche series of treatises in form of dialogues.
Primi elementi di musica per li principianti by Giovanni Battista Brevi

January 14 – Jakob Adlung, musician (died 1762)
February 14 – Tobias Henrich Schubart librettist for Georg Telemann (died 1747)
March 25 – Johann Adolph Hasse, composer (died 1783)
May 4 – Giacomo Francesco Milano Franco d'Aragona, composer (died 1780)
November 13 – Jan Zach, violinist, organist and composer (died 1773)
December 17 – Charles-Louis Mion, composer (died 1775)
December 23 – Joseph Gibbs, composer (died 1788)
date unknown
- René de Galard de Béarn, Marquis de Brassac, soldier and amateur composer (died 1771)
- Johann Friedrich Ruhe, composer (died 1776)