1679 in music

The year 1679 in music involved some significant events.

Events

*Victims of the plague in Vienna include Anna Catharina, wife of Johann Kaspar Kerll. Kerll later commemorates the event in his "Modulatio organica".

Published popular music

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Classical music

* Johann Pachelbel
**"So ist denn dies der Tag"
**"So ist denn nur die Treu".
* Choral music is composed by the Valladolid chapel-master Miguel Gomez Camargo (1654-1690).

Opera

*Johann Paul Agricola - "Streit der Schönheit und der Tugend"
*Petronio Franceschini - "Apollo in Tessaglia"
*Alessandro Scarlatti - "Gli Equivoci nell’amore"
*Marc'Antonio Ziani - "Alessandro Magno in Sidone"

Births

*January 5 - Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, organist, choirmaster and composer (died 1750)
*October 11 - Christian Vater, organ and harpsichord builder (died 1756)
*October 16 - Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer (died 1745)
*December 24 - Domenico Sarro, composer (died 1744)
*"date unknown"
**Johann Georg Mozart, grandfather of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (died 1736)
**Balthasar Siberer, organ teacher (died 1757)

Deaths

*June 27 - Pablo Bruna, blind organist and composer (born 1611)
*"probable" - Dietrich Becker, violinist and composer