1684 in music
The year 1684 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- Antonio Stradivari makes the Bucher, Cipriani Potter and Cobbett ex Holloway violins.
- An adaptation of Fletcher's Valentinian features music composed by Louis Grabu.
Classical music
- Giovanni Battista Bassani – Affetti canori, cantate et ariette, Op.6
- Dietrich Buxtehude
- *Dein edles Herz, der Liebe Thron, BuxWV 14
- *Herr auf dich traue ich, BuxWV 35
- *Herr nun läßt du deinen Diener, BuxWV 37
- *Lobe den Herrn meine Seele, BuxWV 71
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- *Litanies de la Vierge, H.83
- *Pro omnibus festis ''B V M, H.333
- *In nativitatem Domini canticum, H.414
- *Sur la naissance de notre Seigneur Jésus Christ, H.482
- *Pastorale sur la Naissance de Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ, H.483
- Michel Richard de Lalande – Te Deum S.32
- Domenico Gabrielli – Balletti, Op.1
- Giovanni Battista Granata – Armoniosi toni di varie suonate musicali per la chitarra spagnuola... Opera settima
- Johann Krieger – Ich will in Friede fahren
- Isabella Leonarda – Mottetti a voce sola, Op.11
- Jean-Baptiste Lully
- *Plaude laetare galia, LWV 37
- *Te Deum, LWV 55
- *De Profundis, LWV 62
- John Playford – The Division Violin
- Henry Purcell – From those serene and rapturous joys, Z.326
- Pierre Robert – Motets pour la Chapelle du Roy
- Alessandro Scarlatti – Agar et Ismaele esiliati
- Giovanni Battista Vitali
- *Sinfonia a 6
- *Sonate da Chiesa à due Violini, Op.9
- *Varie Sonate alla Francese, & all'Itagliana à sei Stromenti'', Op.11
Opera
- John Blow – Venus and Adonis
- Juan Hidalgo de Polanco – Apolo y Leucotea
- Jean-Baptiste Lully – ''Amadis de Gaule''
Births
- March 15 – Francesco Durante, composer
- June 22 – Francesco Manfredini, violinist and composer
- September 18 – Johann Gottfried Walther, composer and music theorist
- September 23 – Johann Theodor Römhild, composer
- October 30 – Maria Barbara Bach, first wife of J.S. Bach
- date unknown
- *François d' Agincour, composer
- *Georg Christian Lehms, librettist
Deaths
- April 12 – Nicola Amati, violin-maker of Cremona
- May 8 – Henri Dumont, Netherlandish composer
- July 5 – Johann Hildebrand, composer
- September 10 – Johann Rosenmüller, German composer
- October 1 – Pierre Corneille, French librettist