The year 1696 in music involved some significant events.

Events Giacomo Antonio Perti becomes maestro di cappella to S Petronio, Bologna, where he remains for the rest of his life. Francesco Antonio Pistocchi becomes maestro di cappella to the Duke of Ansbach.

Published popular music

Classical music Henrico Albicastro — Il giardino armonico sacro-profano Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber — Harmonia artificioso-ariosa John Blow — Ode on the Death of Purcell Dieterich Buxtehude — VII suonate, op. 2 Marc-Antoine Charpentier — Ego mater agnitionis, H.371 Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer — Les pièces de clavessin, Op.2 Johann Kuhnau — Frische Klavierfrüchte Isabella Leonarda — Messe e motetti concertate, Op.18 Nicola Matteis — A Collection of New Songs Franz Xaver Murschhauser — Octi-tonium novum organicum, octo tonis ecclesiasticis, ad Psalmos, & magnificat Henry Purcell — A Choice Collection of Lessons for the Harpsichord or Spinnet (published posthumously) Johann Paul von Westhoff — Six Partitas for solo violin

Opera Tomaso Albinoni — Zenone, Imperator d'Oriente Giuseppe Aldrovandini — Dafni Giovanni Bononcini — Il Trionfo di Camilla Sebastián Durón — Salir el amor del mundo John Eccles — The Loves of Mars and Venus Marin Marais — Ariane et Bacchus Bernardo Pasquini — Radamisto Daniel Purcell — Brutus of Alba Alessandro Scarlatti — La Didone delirante, R.344.30

Births February 10 — Johann Melchior Molter, violinist and composer (died 1765) February 17 — Ernst Gottlieb Baron, lutenist and composer (died 1760) March 21 — Pierre Février, organist, harpsichordist and composer (died 1760) May 23 — Johann Caspar Vogler, organist and composer (died 1763) August 12 — Maurice Greene, composer (died 1725) November 11 — Andrea Zani, violinist and composer (died 1757) December 25 — Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, amateur composer (died 1715) date unknown Marged ferch Ifan, harpist and wrestler (died 1793)

Deaths April 21 — Jacques Gallot, composer May 31 — Heinrich Schwemmer, composer and music teacher (born 1621) June 29 — Michel Lambert, French composer of airs (born 1610) July 25 — Clamor Heinrich Abel, German composer (born 1634)

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