- 1696 in music
The year 1696 in music involved some significant events.
Events
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Giacomo Antonio Perti becomes maestro di cappella to S Petronio, Bologna, where he remains for the rest of his life.Published popular music
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Classical music
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Henrico Albicastro - "Il giardino armonico sacro-profano"
*John Blow - "Ode on the Death of Purcell"
*Dieterich Buxtehude - "Frische Klavierfrüchte"
*Franz Xaver Murschhauser - "Octi-tonium novum organicum, octo tonis ecclesiasticis, ad Psalmos, & magnificat"Opera
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Tomaso Albinoni - "Zenone, Imperator d'Oriente"
*Giuseppe Aldrovandini - "Dafni"
*Giovanni Bononcini - "Il Trionfo di Camilla"
*John Eccles - "The Loves of Mars and Venus"
*Bernardo Pasquini - "Radamisto"Births
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February 10 -Johann Melchior Molter , violinist and composer (died1765 )
*May 23 -Johann Caspar Vogler , organist and composer (died1763 )
*August 12 - Maurice Greene, composer (died1725 )
*"date unknown"
**Anna Maria of the Pietà , string player
**Ernst Gottlieb Baron , lutenist and composer (died1760 )Deaths
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April 21 -Jacques Gallot , composer
*May 31 -Heinrich Schwemmer , composer and music teacher (born1621 )
*"date unknown" - Michel Lambert, French composer of airs (born1610 )
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