1690 in music

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The year 1690 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Invention of the clarinet.
• Georg Muffat becomes kapellmeister to the Bishop of Passau.

Published popular music

Pachelbel's Canon is hypothesised to have been composed in this era

Classical music

• Henry Purcell – music for The Tempest

Opera

• Giuseppe Boniventi – Il gran Macedone
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Le Jugement de Paris
• Alessandro Scarlatti – La Rosaura

Theoretical writings

• Kurze doch deutliche Anleitung zu der lieblich- und löblichen Singekunst by Johann Georg Ahle, an enlarged and revised version of Johann Rudolf Ahle's famous singing manual, Brevis et perspicua introductio. A second edition was published in 1704.

Births

• February 2 – Francesco Maria Veracini, violinist and composer (died 1768)
• June 11 - Giovanni Antonio Giay, composer (died 1764)
• September 15 - Ignazio Prota, composer and music teacher (died 1748)
• November - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, organist, harpsichordist and composer (died 1750)
• November 22 - François Colin de Blamont, composer (died 1760)
• date unknown— Francesco Barsanti, composer, recorder & oboe virtuoso; born Lucca, Toscany (IT). (Died 1775)
• date unknown – Johann Tobias Krebs, organist and composer (died 1762)
• probable
  • Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, composer and violinist (died 1758)
  • Senesino, castrato singer (died 1756)

Deaths

• May 27 – Giovanni Legrenzi, composer (born 1626)
• July 10 - Domenico Gabrielli, cellist and composer (born c.1651)
• date unknown - Gustaf Düben, organist (born 1628)