1698 in music
# 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 (Coll. Brossard)
* Michel Richard Delalande – Regina Coeli, S.53
* Sebastian Knüpfer – Ecce quam bonum et quam iucundum (Psalm 133), for 5 solo voices, 5-part choir, 2 violins, 3 violas, bassoon, and basso continuo
* Johann Krieger – Anmuthige Clavier-Übung (Nuremberg), 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 (Kassel)
* Isabella Leonarda – Salmi concertati a 4 voci con strumenti, Op. 19 (Bologna)
* Christian Liebe – O Heiland aller Welt ich muß dir sehnlich klagen
* Georg Muffat – Florilegium Secundum (Passau)
* 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 (died 1782)
* July 24 – František Jiránek, composer (died 1778)
* September 8 – François Francoeur, violinist and composer (died 1787)
* date unknown
   * Pietro Auletta, composer (died 1771)
   * Antonio Bioni, composer (died 1739)
   * Riccardo Broschi, composer (died 1756)
   * Célestin Harst, priest, organist and composer (died 1778)
* probable – Giovanni Battista Sammartini, composer (died 1775)

## Deaths

* date unknown – Thomas Connellan, composer and harpist (born c.1640)
* probable – Nicola Matteis, violinist and composer (born c.1670)
