1699 in music
# 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 (however, he only started working there in 1702 after the new organ was completed).

## 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 (published circa 1699)
* 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 (large cantata; his last)
* 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 (died 1762)
* February 14 – Tobias Henrich Schubart librettist for Georg Telemann (died 1747)
* March 25 – Johann Adolph Hasse, composer (died 1783)
* May 4 – Giacomo Francesco Milano Franco d'Aragona, composer (died 1780)
* November 13 – Jan Zach, violinist, organist and composer (died 1773)
* December 17 – Charles-Louis Mion, composer (died 1775)
* December 23 – Joseph Gibbs, composer (died 1788)
* date unknown
   * René de Galard de Béarn, Marquis de Brassac, soldier and amateur composer (died 1771)
   * Johann Friedrich Ruhe, composer (died 1776)

## Deaths

* June 1 – Jean Rousseau, viol player and composer (born 1644)
* April 11 – Friedrich Christian Bressand, librettist (born 1670)
* October 20 – Friedrich Funcke, composer (born 1642)
* December 30 – Pierre Robert, composer (born c.1618)
* December 31 – Andreas Armsdorff, composer and organist
* date unknown
   * Mario Agatea, singer, composer and instrument maker (born c.1623–28)
   * Isaac Blackwell, composer and organist
   * José Marín, composer (born 1619)
   * Charles Mouton, composer and lutenist (born 1617)
   * Pierre Robert, composer (born 1618)
