See also: 1694 in music, other events of 1695, 1696 in music and the list of 'years in music'. Events January 27 - Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ahmed II to Mustafa II (1695-1703) July 17 - The Bank of Scotland is founded by an Act of Parliament of the old Scottish Parliament. ... See also: 1695 in music, other events of 1696, 1697 in music and the list of years in music. // Events Published popular music Classical music Henrico Albicastro - Il giardino armonico sacro-profano John Blow - Ode on the Death of Purcell Dietrich Buxtehude - Frische Klavierfrüchte Opera Giovanni Bononcini - Il Trionfo... This page indexes the individual year in music pages. ...

Events

• Music publisher Henry Playford relocates his London shop to Temple Change.
• The orphaned Johann Sebastian Bach is taken in by his cousin Johann Christoph Bach.

Henry Playford 1657-c1707 was the younger son of John Playford and his only known surviving child. ... The 1748 Haussmann portrait of the composer. ... Johann Christoph Bach (December 6, 1642 - March 31, 1703), was a German composer of the Baroque period. ...

Published popular music

Classical music

• Johann Pachelbel - Musikalische Ergötzung, vol. 2

Johann Pachelbel (päkhəlbĕl) (August 1653 – March 3, 1706) was a German baroque composer and organist, best remembered for his Canon in D. Pachelbel was organist at Erfurt, in the Thuringian region of Germany. ...

Opera

Births

• September 3 - Pietro Locatelli, composer

September 3 is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years). ... Pietro Antonio Locatelli (September 3, 1695–March 30, 1764) was an Italian composer and violinist. ...

Deaths

• February 24 - Johann Ambrosius Bach, violinist
• November 21 - Henry Purcell, composer
• November 28 - Giovanni Paolo Colonna, composer