1697 in music

Events

• Antonio Stradivari makes the Castelbarco cello.
• Giuseppe Torelli arrives at the court of Ansbach.
• Daniel Purcell and Jeremiah Clarke collaborate on the music for Elkanah Settle's play, World in the Moon.
• The Opéra du Quai au Foin in Brussels closes for the last time.

Publications

• Guilio Cesare Arresti – 18 Sonate da organo di varii autori
• Philipp Heinrich Erlebach – Harmonische Freude musicalischer Freunde
• Aurelio Paolini – Suonate da camera a 3, Op. 1
• Henry Purcell – Ten Sonata’s in Four Parts, published posthumously in London
• Giovanni Maria Ruggieri – 10 Suonate da Chiesa, Op.4
• Daniel Speer – ''Grund-richtiger Unterricht der Musicalischen Kunst''

Classical music

• Jeremiah Clarke – The Duke of Glocester's March
• François Couperin – Laudate pueri
• Henri Dumont – Motets de Mr. Dumont a 4 parties
• Johann Krieger
• *Sechs musicalische Partien
• *Uns ist ein Kind geboren
• Carl Rosier – Sonata in C major, Kuckuckssonate
• Johann Christoph Rothe – ''St Matthew Passion''

Opera

• Hendrik Anders – Min- en wijn-strijd
• Antonio Caldara – La promessa sebata al primo
• André Campra – L'Europe galante
• Sebastiano Cherici – Ildegonda
• Henri Desmarets – Venus et Adonis
• André Cardinal Destouches – Issé
• Louis de Lacoste – Aricie
• Alessandro Scarlatti
• *La Caduta del Decemviri
• *L'Emireno, R.345.32

Theoretical writings

• Johan Georg Ahlens musikalisches Sommer-Gespräche by Johann Georg Ahle, on cadences, rhetorical figures, and modes. Second part of Ahle's Musikalische Gespräche series of treatises in form of dialogues.

Births

• January 1 – Johann Pfeiffer, violinist and composer
• January 30 – Johann Joachim Quantz, flautist and composer
• April 16 – Johann Gottlieb Görner, organist and composer
• April 26 – Adam Falckenhagen, lutenist and composer
• May 10 – Jean-Marie Leclair, violinist and composer
• June 11 – Francesco Antonio Vallotti, organist, music theorist and composer
• November 9 – Claudio Casciolini, composer
• December 5 – Giuseppe de Majo, organist and composer
• December 6 – Carlo Arrigoni, composer

Deaths

• January 4 – Amalia Catharina, Countess of Erbach, poet and composer
• January 6 – Carlo Mannelli, violinist, castrato and composer
• March 23 – William Child, organist and composer
• March 29 – Nicolaus Bruhns, organist and composer
• May 29 – Giovanni Francesco Grossi, singer