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.

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

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

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''

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