1698 in music
The year 1698 in music involved some significant events.
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