1685 in music

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The year 1685 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

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* The father of Georg Philipp Telemann dies, leaving his widow to bring up the children.
* Antonio Stradivari makes the ex Arma Senkrah violin.
* John Blow is recorded among the private musicians of King James II of England.
* The 17-year-old François Couperin becomes organist at St Gervais in Paris.
* Giovanni Legrenzi becomes maestro di cappella at St Mark's Cathedral, Venice.

## Published popular music

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## Classical music

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* Giovanni Bononcini – 12 Sinfonie, Op. 3
* Cristofaro Caresana – Dixit Dominus
* Arcangelo Corelli – Op. 2, 12 trio sonatas
* Le Sieur de Machy – Pieces de Violle
* Nicolas Gigault – Livre de musique pour l'orgue
* Nicolas Lebègue – Livre d'orgue No.3
* Jean-Baptiste Lully
* Idylle sur la Paix, LWV 68
* Ballet du temple de la paix, LWV 69
* Johann Christoph Pezel – Fünfstimmige blasende Music
* Henry Purcell – My heart is inditing (anthem), first performed at the coronation of King James II[1]
* Alessandro Scarlatti – Il martirio di S. Teodosia

## Opera

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* John Blow – Venus and Adonis
* Marc-Antoine Charpentier
* La Couronne de fleurs
* Les arts florissants
* Giuseppe Fabrini – La Genefieva
* Jean-Baptiste Lully – Roland

## Births

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* March 5 (N.S.) – George Frideric Handel, composer (died 1759)
* March 31 (NS) – Johann Sebastian Bach, composer (died 1750)
* June 23 (NS?) – Antonio Maria Bernacchi, castrato singer (died 1756)
* June 30 – John Gay, poet, author of The Beggar's Opera (died 1732)
* September 20 – Giuseppe Matteo Alberti, composer and violinist (died 1751)
* October 26 – Domenico Scarlatti, composer (died 1757)
* December 12 – Lodovico Giustini, early composer for piano (died 1743)

## Deaths

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* March 31 – Juan Hidalgo de Polanco, harpist and composer (born 1614)
* July 4 or (5) – George Jeffreys, composer (born c.1610)
* September 22 – Ignazio Albertini, Italian musician and composer (born 1644)
* date unknown
* Jean-Baptiste Boësset, French composer (born 1614)
* Yatsuhashi Kengyo, Japanese musician and composer (born 1614)

## References

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1. ^ Palisca, Claude V. (1991) [1968]. Baroque Music. Prentice Hall History of Music (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. p. 308\. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.

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