1696 in music
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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
- John Blow – Ode on the Death of Purcell
- Dieterich Buxtehude – VII suonate, op. 2
- Johann Kuhnau – Frische Klavierfrüchte
- Franz Xaver Murschhauser – Octi-tonium novum organicum, octo tonis ecclesiasticis, ad Psalmos, & magnificat
- 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
- John Eccles – The Loves of Mars and Venus
- Bernardo Pasquini – Radamisto
Births
- February 10 – Johann Melchior Molter, violinist and composer (died 1765)
- February 17 – Ernst Gottlieb Baron, lutenist 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
- Pierre Février, organist, harpsichordist and composer (died 1760)
- 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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