1699 in music
The year 1699 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- February – Richard Leveridge, Daniel Purcell and Jeremiah Clarke collaborate on the music for an adaptation of Fletcher's The Island Princess.
- John Blow is appointed to the newly created post of Composer to the Chapel Royal in England.
- Antonio Caldara appointed maestro di cappella da chiesa e del teatro to Ferdinando Carlo, the last Gonzaga Duke of Mantua.
- Quirinus Blankenburg is appointed organist at the Nieuwe Kerk in The Hague.
Classical music
- Carlo Agostino Badia
- *Imeneo trionfante, serenata for the wedding of Joseph I and Wilhelmine Amalie of Braunschweig-Lüneburg
- *Tributi armonici, 12 chamber cantatas
- Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber – Sonata violino solo representativa
- Giovanni Battista Brevi - La devotione canora: motetti, libro II, motets for voice and basso continuo
- Antonio Caldara
- *Suonate da camera, op. 2; twelve trio sonatas
- *Cantate da camera a voce sola, op. 3; twelve cantatas
- André Campra
- * Carnaval de Venise
- * Missa 'Ad majorem Dei gloriam'
- * Motets, Livre 2
- Michel Richard Delalande – Confitebor tibi Domine in consilio, S.56
- Rocco Greco – 31 sinfonie, 10 passacaglie, 11 brani strumentali
- Nicolas de Grigny - Premier livre d'orgue, an organ Mass and hymn settings, comprising 42 pieces; second edition published in 1711
- George Frideric Handel – Trio Sonata in G minor, HWV 387
- Johann Pachelbel - Hexachordum Apollinis, six arias with variations for keyboard
- Daniel Purcell - Ode for St Cecilia's Day, the second of the three such pieces by the composer
- Alessandro Scarlatti – Clori mia, Clori bella, H.129
Publications
- The first issue of Mercurius Musicus: or, the Monthly Collection of New Teaching Songs, one of the earliest planned periodicals of music scores, was published in London
Opera
- Antonio Caldara – L'oracolo in sogno
- Carlo Agostino Badia – Il Narciso
- Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber – Trattenimento musicale del'ossequio di Salisburgo
- Francesco Gasparini – Mirena e Floro
- Johann Mattheson – Die Plejades
- Antonio Quintavalle, Antonio Caldara, and Antonio Pollarolo – L'oracolo in sogno
- Alessandro Scarlatti – ''Gl'Inganni felici''
Theoretical writings
- Johan Georg Ahlens musikalisches Herbst-Gespräche by Johann Georg Ahle, on consonance and dissonance. Third part of Ahle's Musikalische Gespräche series of treatises in form of dialogues.
- Primi elementi di musica per li principianti by Giovanni Battista Brevi
Births
- January 14 – Jakob Adlung, musician
- February 14 – Tobias Henrich Schubart librettist for Georg Telemann
- March 25 – Johann Adolph Hasse, composer
- May 4 – Giacomo Francesco Milano Franco d'Aragona, composer
- November 13 – Jan Zach, violinist, organist and composer
- December 17 – Charles-Louis Mion, composer
- December 23 – Joseph Gibbs, composer
- date unknown
- *René de Galard de Béarn, Marquis de Brassac, soldier and amateur composer
- *Johann Friedrich Ruhe, composer
Deaths
- June 1 – Jean Rousseau, viol player and composer
- April 11 – Friedrich Christian Bressand, librettist
- October 20 – Friedrich Funcke, composer
- December 30 – Pierre Robert, composer
- December 31 – Andreas Armsdorff, composer and organist
- date unknown
- *Mario Agatea, singer, composer and instrument maker
- *Isaac Blackwell, composer and organist
- *José Marín, composer
- *Charles Mouton, composer and lutenist
- *Pierre Robert, composer