1681 in music

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The year 1681 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Arcangelo Corelli is employed by the electoral prince of Bavaria.
• Giovanni Legrenzi becomes assistant maestro di cappella at St Mark's, Venice.
• Jean-Baptiste Lully is appointed court secretary to King Louis XIV of France.
• Antonio Stradivari makes the Fleming violin.

Classical music

• Arcangelo Corelli – Op. 1, 12 trio sonatas
• Heinrich Biber – 8 Violin Sonatas, C 138-145
• Johann Melchoir Gletle – Ave Maria (I and II)
• Carlo Piazzi – Balletti, Op.2
• Henry Dumont
  • Motets à II, III et IV parties pour voix et instruments avec la basse continue
  • Benedicite Deum cæli
  • Jubilate Deo
• Giovanni Paolo Colonna
  • Motetti sacri, Op. 2
  • Motetti, Op.3
• Alessandro Stradella – Il Barcheggio
• Dietrich Buxtehude
  • Afferte Domino gloriam honorem, BuxWV 2
  • Gen Himmel zu dem Vater mein, BuxWV 32
  • Kommst du Licht der Heiden, BuxWV 66
  • Sicut Mose, BuxWV 97
  • Ich habe Lust abzuscheiden, BuxWV 46

Opera

• Domenico Freschi – Pompeo Magno in Cilicia
• Jean-Baptiste Lully – Le Triomphe de l’Amour (ballet)

Publications

• Andreas Werckmeister – Orgel-Probe (the first appearance of the tuning system known as the Werckmeister temperament)

Births

• March 14 – Georg Philipp Telemann, composer (died 1767)
• September 4 – Carl Heinrich Biber, composer (died 1749)
• September 28 – Johann Mattheson, composer (died 1764)

Deaths

• date unknown – Francesco Corbetta, guitarist and composer (born c.1615)
• date unknown – Benedetto Ferrari, opera composer (born c.1603)