1684. With other artists, Johann Pachelbel, Henry Purcell and Dietrich Buxtehude influenced their time (baroque era). That year would see the birth of future classical or lyrical artists, such as Francesco Durante, while others would disappear. That year, new works would be composed, published or performed for the first time in public, such as “Amadis” de Jean-Baptiste Lully, for example.
All these moments, more or less notable, make the year 1684 a page in the history of classical and lyrical music to be discovered or rediscovered. soclassiq currently lists more than 40 of these moments for 1684.
1684, from day to day
January
Premiere of AmadisThat year: 1684, Classical music (Opera), Jean-Baptiste Lully .
February
12
Death of Pietro Andrea ZianiThat year: 1684, Classical music, Italian organist and composer (born in 1616)
16
Birth of Bohuslav Matěj ČernohorskýThat year: 1684, Classical music, Czech music educator, composer, organist and roman catholic priest (dead in 1742)
25
Death of Andreas HoferThat year: 1684, Classical music, composer (born in 1629)
March
31
Birth of Francesco DuranteThat year: 1684, Classical music, Italian composer (dead in 1755)
May
08
Death of Henri DumontThat year: 1684, Classical music, Belgian composer (born in 1610)
June
22
Birth of Francesco ManfrediniThat year: 1684, Classical music, Italian composer (dead in 1762)
July
05
Death of Johann HildebrandThat year: 1684, Classical music, German composer (born in 1614)
September
12
Death of Johann RosenmüllerThat year: 1684, Classical music, German Baroque composer (born in 1619)
18
Birth of Johann Gottfried WaltherThat year: 1684, Classical music, German musician and composer (dead in 1748)
23
Birth of Johann Theodor RoemhildtThat year: 1684, Classical music, German composer (dead in 1756)
24
Death of Cristóbal GalánThat year: 1684, Classical music, Spanish composer (born in 1625)
October
15
Birth of Allan RamsayThat year: 1684, Classical music, Scottish poet (dead in 1758)
November
25
Death of Erasmus GruberThat year: 1684, Classical music, composer (born in 1609)
December
01
Death of Paulus MatthyszThat year: 1684, Classical music, composer (born in 1613)
21
Death of de La Voye-MignotThat year: 1684, Classical music, composer
This was also in 1684
Death of Samuel EbartThat year: 1684, Classical music, German composer (born in 1655). Birth of Antonín GörbigThat year: 1684, Classical music, composer (dead in 1737). Birth of Samuel AkeroydeThat year: 1684, Classical music, composer (dead in 1706). Birth of Marianna BulgarelliThat year: 1684, Classical music, singer (dead in 1734). Birth of Michel -Charles Le CèneThat year: 1684, Classical music, French printer (dead in 1743). Death of Alonso ToricesThat year: 1684, Classical music, composer . Birth of Jaime de la de Té y SagauThat year: 1684, Classical music, Catalan composer (dead in 1736). Birth of François BouvardThat year: 1684, Classical music, French composer (dead in 1760). Death of Agostino GuerrieriThat year: 1684, Classical music, composer (born in 1630). Birth of François d'd'AgincourtThat year: 1684, Classical music, French harpsichordist, organist, composer (dead in 1758).
Works (composition or publishing)
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Jean-Baptiste Lully (age 52) - Benedictus (Work for choir)
- Exaudiat te Dominus (Work for choir)
- Notus in Judaea Deus (Work for choir)
- Regina Coeli (Work for choir)
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Henry Purcell (age 25) - A thousand sev'ral ways I tried (Song, lied)
- Beware, poor Shepherds (Song, lied)
- He himself courts his own ruin (Song, lied)
- In Cloris all soft charms (Song, lied)
- Let us, kind Lesbia, give away (Song, lied)
- Through mournful shades and solitary groves (Song, lied)
- When gay Philander left the plain (Song, lied)
- From those serene and rapturous joys (Work for choir)
