1697 in music
# 1697 in music

The year 1697 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* Antonio Stradivari makes the Castelbarco cello.
* Giuseppe Torelli arrives at the court of Ansbach.
* Daniel Purcell and Jeremiah Clarke collaborate on the music for Elkanah Settle's play, World in the Moon.
* The Opéra du Quai au Foin in Brussels closes for the last time.

## Publications

* Guilio Cesare Arresti – 18 Sonate da organo di varii autori (includes work by Pietro Ziani, Giovanni Bassani, Giovanni Colonna, Bernardo Pasquini, and others, as well as Arresti himself)
* Philipp Heinrich Erlebach – Harmonische Freude musicalischer Freunde
* Aurelio Paolini – Suonate da camera a 3, Op. 1 (Venice: Giuseppe Sala)
* Henry Purcell – Ten Sonata’s in Four Parts (trio sonatas), published posthumously in London (Nos. 1–4 composed c1678–79, Nos. 7–9 possibly in 1681–82, No. 10 possibly 1683–84)
* Giovanni Maria Ruggieri – 10 Suonate da Chiesa, Op.4
* Daniel Speer – Grund-richtiger Unterricht der Musicalischen Kunst

## Classical music

* Jeremiah Clarke – The Duke of Glocester's March
* François Couperin – Laudate pueri
* Henri Dumont – Motets de Mr. Dumont a 4 parties
* Johann Krieger
   * Sechs musicalische Partien
   * Uns ist ein Kind geboren
* Carl Rosier – Sonata in C major, Kuckuckssonate
* Johann Christoph Rothe – St Matthew Passion

## Opera

* Hendrik Anders – Min- en wijn-strijd
* Antonio Caldara – La promessa sebata al primo
* André Campra – L'Europe galante (opera-ballet)
* Sebastiano Cherici – Ildegonda
* Henri Desmarets – Venus et Adonis
* André Cardinal Destouches – Issé
* Louis de Lacoste – Aricie
* Alessandro Scarlatti
   * La Caduta del Decemviri
   * L'Emireno, R.345.32

## Theoretical writings

* Johan Georg Ahlens musikalisches Sommer-Gespräche by Johann Georg Ahle, on cadences, rhetorical figures, and modes. Second part of Ahle's Musikalische Gespräche series of treatises in form of dialogues.

## Births

* January 1 – Johann Pfeiffer, violinist and composer (died 1761)
* January 30 – Johann Joachim Quantz, flautist and composer (died 1773)
* April 16 – Johann Gottlieb Görner, organist and composer (died 1778)
* April 26 – Adam Falckenhagen, lutenist and composer (died 1754)
* May 10 – Jean-Marie Leclair, violinist and composer (died 1764)
* June 11 – Francesco Antonio Vallotti, organist, music theorist and composer (died 1780)
* November 9 – Claudio Casciolini, composer (died 1760)
* December 5 – Giuseppe de Majo, organist and composer (died 1771)
* December 6 – Carlo Arrigoni, composer (died 1744)

## Deaths

* January 4 – Amalia Catharina, Countess of Erbach, poet and composer (born 1640)
* January 6 – Carlo Mannelli, violinist, castrato and composer (born 1640)
* March 23 – William Child, organist and composer (born 1606)
* March 29 – Nicolaus Bruhns, organist and composer (born 1665)
* May 29 – Giovanni Francesco Grossi, singer (born 1653)
