1691 in music

The year 1691 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• July – Johann Heinrich Buttstett succeeds Nicolaus Vetter as organist of the Predigerkirche in Erfurt.

Published popular music

• "The Bachelor's Answer to the Helpless Maiden" ^[1]
• "The Charming Regent's Wish" ^[2]

Classical music

• Giovanni Battista Alveri – Mia Vita
• John Blow – Ode for St Cecilia's Day ^[3]
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Marche de triomphe et air, H.547
• Gottfried Finger – A Collection of Musick in Two Parts
• Domenico Galli – Trattenimento musicale sopra il violoncello
• Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre – Jeux à l’honneur de la Victoire
• Bianca Maria Meda – Cari Musici (motet)
• Françoise-Charlotte de Senneterre Ménétou – Airs sérieux
• Henry Purcell
  • The Gordion Knot Untied, Z.597
  • The Old Bachelor, Z.607 (pub. 1697)

Publications

• Andreas Werckmeister – Musicalische Temperatur

Opera

The following operas were composed:

• Henry Purcell – King Arthur (with libretto by John Dryden)
• Bernardo Sabadini – Diomede punito da Alcide
• Agostino Steffani – Orlando generoso

Births

• June 14 – Jan Francisci, organist and composer (died 1758)
• December – Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch, organist and composer (died 1765)
• date unknown – Francesco Feo, opera composer (died 1761)

Deaths

• April 23 – Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, composer (born 1629) ^[4]
• unknown date – Adriano Morsell, librettist (birth year unknown)

References

1. "A New SONG, Call'd The Batchellor's Anſwer TO THE Helpleſs Maiden". English Broadside Ballad Archive. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
2. Pepys Library (Cambridge) (1978). Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Boydell & Brewer. p. 360. ISBN   978-0-85991-315-7.
3. William Henry Husk (1857). An Account of the Musical Celebrations on St. Cecilia's Day: In the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. To which is Appended a Collection of Odes on St. Cecilia's Day. Bell and Daldy. p. 159.
4. David Mason Greene (1985). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 148. ISBN   978-0-385-14278-6.