1680 in music

Events

• Arcangelo Corelli begins his friendship with Cristiano Farinelli.
• Antonio Stradivari sets up his own business in Cremona.
• John Blow is forced out of his job as organist at Westminster Abbey, to make room for Henry Purcell.
• Georg Muffat goes to Italy to study organ with Bernardo Pasquini.
• Johann Philipp Krieger becomes Kapellmeister of the court at Weissenfels.
• First record of the marimba in Guatemala.

Publications

• Denis Gaultier – Livres de tablature des pièces de luth
• Ennemond Gaultier
• *Livre de musique pour le luth contenant une métode
• *''Pièces de luth en musique avec des règles pour les toucher parfaitement sur le luth, et sur le clavessin''

Classical music

• Heinrich Biber – Mensa sonora
• Dieterich Buxtehude – Membra Jesu Nostri
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier
• *Filius prodigus
• *Leçon de ténèbres du Vendredi saint, H.105
• *Laudate pueri Dominum, H.203
• *Concert pour 4 parties de violes, H.545
• Ennemond Gaultier – Suite in D minor
• Johann Caspar Horn – Geistliche Harmonien
• Charles Mouton – Pièces de luth sur différents modes
• Henry Purcell
• *Beati omnes qui timent Dominum, Z.131
• *Fantasias and In Nomines, Z.732-747
• *Pavane and Chaconne in G minor, Z.752 and Z.730
• *12 Sonatas of Three Parts, Z.790-801
• Sebastian Anton Scherer – 14 Sonatas, Op.3
• Johann Heinrich Schmelzer – Lamento sopra la morte di Ferdinand III
• Giovanni Battista Vitali – ''Partite sopra diverse sonate''

[Opera]

• Pietro Simone Agostini – Il ratto delle Sabine
• Jean-Baptiste Lully – Proserpine
• Antonio Sartorio – La Flora
• Alessandro Scarlatti – ''L'honestà negli amori''

Births

• April 19 – Johann Friedrich Helbig, hymnist
• May 6 – Jean-Baptiste Stuck, cellist and composer
• September 29 – Christian Friedrich Hunold, librettist
• November 18 – Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer
• December 11 – Emanuele d'Astorga, composer
• date unknown
• *Louis de Caix d'Hervelois, composer
• *François Campion, guitarist and composer
• *Giovanni Antonio Guido, violinist and composer

Deaths

• March 20 – Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, violinist
• April 1 – David Denicke, hymnist
• May 31 – Joachim Neander, hymn-writer
• September 10 – Baldassare Ferri, castrato singer
• October 13
• *Lelio Colista, composer and lutenist
• *François Roberday, organist and composer
• November 27 – Athanasius Kircher, composer and polymath
• December 10 – Marco Uccellini, violinist and composer
• December 30 – Antonio Sartorio, composer
• date unknown
• *Kancherla Gopanna, composer of Carnatic music
• *Maria Francesca Nascinbeni, composer
• *Francisco de Trillo y Figueroa, poet and lyricist