1679 in music

Events

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

Publications

• Stefano Pasino – Sonatas for 2, 3, & 4 instruments, Op. 8

Classical music

• Johann Valentin Meder – Ach Herr strafe mich nicht
• Henry Purcell
• *O God the King of Glory, Z.34
• *O Lord Our Governor, Z.39
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier
• * 2 menuets pour les flûtes allemandes, H.541
• * Caprise, H.542
• Johann Pachelbel's earliest datable works were composed for the 1679 Erbhuldigung at Erfurt. The works in question are two arias, So ist denn dies der Tag and So ist denn nur die Treu.
• Choral music is composed by the Valladolid chapel-master Miguel Gomez Camargo.

[Opera]

• Jean-Baptiste Lully – Cadmus et Hermione, LWV 49
• Carlo Pallavicino
• *Il Nerone
• *Le amazoni nell'isole fortunate
• *Messalina
• Johann Paul Agricola – Streit der Schönheit und der Tugend
• Petronio Franceschini – Apollo in Tessaglia
• Alessandro Scarlatti – Gli equivoci nel sembiante
• Marc'Antonio Ziani – ''Alessandro Magno in Sidone''

Births

• January 5 – Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, organist, choirmaster and composer
• February 14 – Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, composer
• May 4 – Johann Georg Mozart, grandfather of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• October 11 – Christian Vater, organ and harpsichord builder
• October 16 – Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer
• December 24 – Domenico Sarro, composer
• date unknown – Balthasar Siberer, organ teacher

Deaths

• May 1 – Esaias Reusner, composer and lutenist
• June 27 – Pablo Bruna, blind organist and composer
• probable
• *Antonio Maria Abbatini, composer
• *Dietrich Becker, violinist and composer