1698 in music

Events

• Henry Purcell's widow publishes the first volume of Orpheus Britannicus.
• Antonio Stradivari makes the "Cabriac" violin.

Classical music

• Johann Sebastian Bach – Ach, was soll ich Sünder machen, BWV 770
• Sébastien de Brossard – Retribue servo tuo, SdB.004
• Antonio Caldara – Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier
• *Missa Assumpta est Maria, H.11
• *In nativitatem Domini canticum, H.421
• Daniel Danielis – Cœleste Convivium del Signor
• Michel Richard Delalande – Regina Coeli, S.53
• Sebastian Knüpfer – Ecce quam bonum et quam iucundum, for 5 solo voices, 5-part choir, 2 violins, 3 violas, bassoon, and basso continuo
• Johann Krieger – Anmuthige Clavier-Übung, a collection of 25 pieces for organ, including ricercars, fugues, preludes, etc.
• August Kühnel – 14 Sonate ò Partite ad una o due viole da gamba, con il basso continuo
• Isabella Leonarda – Salmi concertati a 4 voci con strumenti, Op. 19
• Christian Liebe – O Heiland aller Welt ich muß dir sehnlich klagen
• Georg Muffat – Florilegium Secundum
• Daniel Purcell – 6 Sonatas or Solos
• Johann Abraham Schmierer – Zodiaci musici
• Giuseppe Torelli – Concerti musicali a quattro op.6

Opera

• Richard Leveridge – The Island Princess
• Luigi Manza – Tito Manlio; Partenope
• Alessandro Scarlatti
• *La donna ancora è fedele
• *Il prigioniero fortunato, R.346.36

Births

• January 3 – Metastasio, born Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, poet and opera librettist
• July 24 – František Jiránek, composer
• September 8 – François Francoeur, violinist and composer
• date unknown
• *Pietro Auletta, composer
• *Antonio Bioni, composer
• *Riccardo Broschi, composer
• *Célestin Harst, priest, organist and composer
• probable – Giovanni Battista Sammartini, composer

Deaths

• date unknown – Thomas Connellan, composer and harpist
• probable – Nicola Matteis, violinist and composer