1681 in music
# 1681 in music

The year 1681 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* Arcangelo Corelli is employed by the electoral prince of Bavaria.
* Giovanni Legrenzi becomes assistant maestro di cappella at St Mark's, Venice.
* Jean-Baptiste Lully is appointed court secretary to King Louis XIV of France.
* Antonio Stradivari makes the Fleming violin.

## Classical music

* Heinrich Biber – 8 Violin Sonatas, C 138-145
* Dietrich Buxtehude
   * Afferte Domino gloriam honorem, BuxWV 2
   * Gen Himmel zu dem Vater mein, BuxWV 32
   * Kommst du Licht der Heiden, BuxWV 66
   * Sicut Mose, BuxWV 97
   * Ich habe Lust abzuscheiden, BuxWV 46
* Giovanni Paolo Colonna
   * Motetti sacri, Op. 2
   * Motetti, Op.3
* Arcangelo Corelli – Op. 1, 12 trio sonatas
* Henry Dumont
   * Motets à II, III et IV parties pour voix et instruments avec la basse continue
   * Benedicite Deum cæli
   * Jubilate Deo
* Johann Melchoir Gletle – Ave Maria (I and II)
* Carlo Piazzi – Balletti, Op.2
* Henry Purcell – Suite for Strings, Z.770
* Alessandro Stradella – Il Barcheggio

## Opera

* Domenico Freschi – Pompeo Magno in Cilicia
* Jean-Baptiste Lully – Le Triomphe de l’Amour (ballet)
* Agostino Steffani – Marco Aurelio
* Marc Antonio Ziani – La Flora (composition begun by Antonio Sartorio, who died during composition)

## Publications

* Johann Wolfgang Franck – Geistliche Lieder (Compositions by Franck, Georg Böhm, and Peter Laurentius Wockenfuss)
* Andreas Werckmeister – Orgel-Probe (the first appearance of the tuning system known as the Werckmeister temperament)

## Births

* January 20 – Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer (died 1732)
* March 14 – Georg Philipp Telemann, composer (died 1767)
* April 11 – Anne Danican Philidor, composer and concert organizer (died 1728)
* September 4 – Carl Heinrich Biber, composer (died 1749)
* September 28 – Johann Mattheson, composer (died 1764)
* December 14 – Giuseppe Valentini, violinist and composer (died 1753)
* date unknown – Giovanni Battista Reali, composer (died 1751)

## Deaths

* May 25 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca, librettist (born 1600)
* June 27 – Ernst Christoph Homburg, librettist (born 1607)
* July 8 – Georg Neumark, hymnist (born 1621)
* October 22 – Benedetto Ferrari, composer (born c. 1603)
* date unknown – Francesco Corbetta, guitarist and composer (born c.1615)
* date unknown – Benedetto Ferrari, opera composer (born c.1603)
