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The year 1684 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Antonio Stradivari makes the Bucher, Cipriani Potter and Cobbett ex Holloway violins.
• An adaptation of Fletcher's Valentinian features music composed by Louis Grabu.

Classical music

• Giovanni Battista Bassani – Affetti canori, cantate et ariette, Op.6
• Dietrich Buxtehude
  • Dein edles Herz, der Liebe Thron, BuxWV 14
  • Herr auf dich traue ich, BuxWV 35
  • Herr nun läßt du deinen Diener, BuxWV 37
  • Lobe den Herrn meine Seele, BuxWV 71
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier
  • Litanies de la Vierge, H.83
  • Pro omnibus festis B V M, H.333
  • In nativitatem Domini canticum, H.414
  • Sur la naissance de notre Seigneur Jésus Christ, H.482
  • Pastorale sur la Naissance de Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ, H.483
• Michel Richard de Lalande – Te Deum S.32
• Domenico Gabrielli – Balletti, Op.1
• Giovanni Battista Granata – Armoniosi toni di varie suonate musicali per la chitarra spagnuola . . . Opera settima
• Johann Krieger – Ich will in Friede fahren
• Isabella Leonarda – Mottetti a voce sola, Op.11
• Jean-Baptiste Lully
  • Plaude laetare galia, LWV 37
  • Te Deum, LWV 55
  • De Profundis, LWV 62
• John Playford – The Division Violin
• Henry Purcell – From those serene and rapturous joys, Z.326
• Pierre Robert – Motets pour la Chapelle du Roy
• Alessandro Scarlatti – Agar et Ismaele esiliati (oratorio)
• Giovanni Battista Vitali
  • Sinfonia a 6
  • Sonate da Chiesa à due Violini, Op.9
  • Varie Sonate alla Francese, & all'Itagliana à sei Stromenti, Op.11

Opera

• John Blow – Venus and Adonis
• Juan Hidalgo de Polanco – Apolo y Leucotea
• Jean-Baptiste Lully – Amadis de Gaule

Births

• March 15 – Francesco Durante, composer (died 1755)
• June 22 – Francesco Manfredini, violinist and composer (died 1762)
• September 18 – Johann Gottfried Walther, composer and music theorist (died 1748)
• September 23 – Johann Theodor Römhild, composer (died 1756)
• October 30 – Maria Barbara Bach, first wife of J.S. Bach (died 1720)
• date unknown
  • François d' Agincour, composer (died 1758)
  • Georg Christian Lehms, librettist (died 1717)

Deaths

• April 12 – Nicola Amati, violin-maker of Cremona (born 1596)
• May 8 – Henri Dumont, Netherlandish composer (born 1610)
• July 5 – Johann Hildebrand, composer (born 1614)
• September 10 – Johann Rosenmüller, German composer (born 1619)
• October 1 – Pierre Corneille, French librettist (born 1606)

References

1. Swain, Joseph P. (2016). Historical Dictionary of Sacred Music. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 80. ISBN 9781442264632.
2. Boer, Bertil H. Van (2012). Historical Dictionary of Music of the Classical Period. Scarecrow Press. p. 357. ISBN 9780810871830.
3. "Johann Gottfried Walther | German composer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
4. "Violin Makers: Nicolò Amati (1596–1684) and Antonio Stradivari (1644–1737)". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
5. "Henry Du Mont (1610-1684)". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
6. Johnston, Gregory S. (2013). A Heinrich Schütz Reader: Letters and Documents in Translation. Oxford University Press. p. 146. ISBN 9780199812219.

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