Events

• July 7 - Giuseppe Felice Tosi
  Giuseppe Felice Tosi
  Giuseppe Felice Tosi was an Italian composer and organist, and the father of Pier Francesco Tosi, also a successful composer....
  
   becomes second organist at San Petronio, Bologna.
• Seven-year-old George Frideric Handel
  George Frideric Handel
  George Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...
  
   visits the court of Saxony at Weissenfels. Duke Johann Adolf is so impressed at his playing of the organ that he advises his father to let him study music under Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau
  Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau
  Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow or Zachau was a German musician and composer.-Life:Zachow probably received his training from his father, the violinist Heinrich Zachow, one of Leipzig's town musicians. as organist of Halle's Church of Our Lady in 1684, succeeding Samuel Ebart...
  
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Classical music

• Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber - Requiem Mass
• Johann Kuhnau
  Johann Kuhnau
  Johann Kuhnau was a German composer, organist and harpsichordist.-Biography :Kuhnau was born in Geising, Saxony. He grew up in a religious Lutheran family. At age nine, he auditioned successfully for the Kreuzschule in Dresden...
  
   – Neuer Clavier-Übung, anderer Theil (1692)

Opera

• Cataldo Amodei
  Cataldo Amodei
  Cataldo Amodei was a Sicilian Baroque musician. He was born in Sciacca and in 1685 was ordained as a priest; in the same year he became maestro di cappella at the church of San Paolo Maggiore, Naples...
  
   – La sirena consolata (lost)
• Carlo Agostino Badia
  Carlo Agostino Badia
  Carlo Agostino Badia was an Italian composer best known for his operas.Badia was born in Verona and around 1697 moved to Vienna, where many of his operas were premiered...
  
   – La ninfa Apollo
• Antonio Perti – Furio Camillo
• Henry Purcell
  Henry Purcell
  Henry Purcell – 21 November 1695), was an English organist and Baroque composer of secular and sacred music. Although Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, his legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music...
  
   – The Fairy Queen (masque)

Births

• January 6 – Rynoldus Popma van Oevering, composer
• April 8 – Giuseppe Tartini
  Giuseppe Tartini
  Giuseppe Tartini was an Italian baroque composer and violinist.-Biography:Tartini was born in Piran, a town on the peninsula of Istria, in the Republic of Venice to Gianantonio – native of Florence – and Caterina Zangrando, a descendant of one of the oldest aristocratic Piranian families.It...
  
  , violinist and composer (died 1770)
• May 28 - Geminiano Giacomelli
  Geminiano Giacomelli
  Geminiano Giacomelli was an Italian composer.Giacomelli was born in Piacenza. In 1724 he was named to the post of Kapellmeister to the duke of Parma. Beginning with the first performance of his opera Ipermestra, in 1724, he became one of the most popular opera composers of his era...
  
  , opera composer (died 1740)
• November 2 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer
  Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer
  Unico Willem van Wassenaer, Count of the Empire, was a Dutch diplomat and composer....
  
  , composer (died 1766)

Deaths

• July 10 – Heinrich Bach
  Heinrich Bach
  Heinrich Bach was a German organist, composer and a member of the Bach family.Heinrich Bach was born at Wechmar, Germany, and is the father of the so-called Arnstädt Line. After the early death of his father, his older brother Johannes Bach continued his music education and teaching him organ...
  
  , German organist (born 1615)
• October 12 – Giovanni Battista Vitali
  Giovanni Battista Vitali
  Giovanni Battista Vitali was an Italian composer and violone player.Vitali was born in Bologna and spent all of his life in the Emilian region, moving to Modena in 1674...
  
  , Italian composer of sonatas (born c.1644)
• November 14 – Christoph Bernhard
  Christoph Bernhard
  Christoph Bernhard was born in Kolberg, Pomerania, and died in Dresden. He studied with former Sweelinck-pupil Paul Siefert in Danzig and in Warsaw By the age of 20 he was singing at the electoral court in Dresden under Heinrich Schütz...
  
  , German composer (born 1628)
• date unknown - John Reading, organist and composer (born c.1645)