1696 in music

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The year 1696 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Giacomo Antonio Perti becomes maestro di cappella to S Petronio, Bologna, where he remains for the rest of his life.
• Francesco Antonio Pistocchi becomes maestro di cappella to the Duke of Ansbach.

Published popular music

Classical music

• Henrico Albicastro – Il giardino armonico sacro-profano
• John Blow – Ode on the Death of Purcell
• Dieterich Buxtehude – VII suonate, op. 2
• Johann Kuhnau – Frische Klavierfrüchte
• Franz Xaver Murschhauser – Octi-tonium novum organicum, octo tonis ecclesiasticis, ad Psalmos, & magnificat
• Johann Paul von Westhoff – Six partitas for solo violin

Opera

• Tomaso Albinoni – Zenone, Imperator d'Oriente
• Giuseppe Aldrovandini – Dafni
• Giovanni Bononcini – Il Trionfo di Camilla
• John Eccles – The Loves of Mars and Venus
• Bernardo Pasquini – Radamisto

Births

• February 10 – Johann Melchior Molter, violinist and composer (died 1765)
• February 17 – Ernst Gottlieb Baron, lutenist and composer (died 1760)
• May 23 – Johann Caspar Vogler, organist and composer (died 1763)
• August 12 – Maurice Greene, composer (died 1725)
• November 11 - Andrea Zani, violinist and composer (died 1757)
• December 25 - Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, amateur composer (died 1715)
• date unknown
  • Pierre Février, organist, harpsichordist and composer (died 1760)
  • Marged ferch Ifan, harpist and wrestler (died 1793)

Deaths

• April 21 – Jacques Gallot, composer
• May 31 – Heinrich Schwemmer, composer and music teacher (born 1621)
• June 29 – Michel Lambert, French composer of airs (born 1610)
• July 25 – Clamor Heinrich Abel, German composer (born 1634)