See also:1691 in music, other events of 1692, 1693 in music and the list of 'years in music'. See also: 1690 in music, other events of 1691, 1692 in music and the list of years in music. // Events Published popular music Classical music John Blow - Ode for St Cecilias Day Bianca Maria Meda - Cari Musici (motet) Andreas Werkmeister - Musikalische Temperatur Opera Henry Purcell - King Arthur (with libretto... Events February 13 - Massacre of Glencoe March 1 - The Salem witch trials begin in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony with the charging of three women with witchcraft. ... This page indexes the individual year in music pages. ...
Seven-year-old George Frideric Handel 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.
George Frideric Handel (German Georg Friedrich Händel), (February 23, 1685 – April 14, 1759) was a German Baroque music composer who lived much of his life in Great Britain, a leading composer of concerti grossi, operas and oratorios. ... Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau (1663 - 1712) was a German musician and composer. ...
January 6 is the 6th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... April 8 is the 98th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (99th in leap years). ... Giuseppe Tartini. ... November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 59 days remaining. ... Count Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer (born November 2, 1692, Delden, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands – died November 9, 1766, The Hague) was the composer of the Concerti Armonici, which have been until recently falsely attributed to Giovanni Pergolesi. ...
Music flourished during the periods of its independence and prosperity, and declined in the years of partition and depression.
The first half of the 18th century was characterized in Poland by the growth of secular music, the further development of instrumental music and the shifting of art patronage from the court to the wealthy magnates and landlords.
[12] Their music is remarkable for its model character and unusual scales, derived from Polish folk music; by its fresh and vigorous rhythm; by its humor and healthy objectivism, all in keeping with the spirit of the new Poland, a spirit of action, optimism and self-reliance.
An underlying, all-pervading and inspirational influence on Italian baroque music was provided by its violin-makers, mainly centered in Cremona - the Amati family in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Guarneri and Stradivari families in the 17th and 18th.
English musical life during the first half of the 1700s was dominated by the giant figure of Handel, who had settled in London in 1712; here once again, royalty had played its influential part.
As the 18th century progressed, European music was also becoming increasingly familiar in the United States, a particularly enthusiastic exponent being Thomas Jefferson, politician, diplomat, foreign minister to France, vice president under John Adams, two-term president of the United States, and of course, author of the Declaration of Independence.
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