1694 in music

The year 1694 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Musician Johannes Kelpius and his group of "mystics" arrive at the Wissahickon Creek in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, bringing instruments that became an integral part of their church life.
• The semi-opera The Rape of Europa by Jupiter, with music by John Eccles and text by Peter Anthony Motteux, is staged in London.

Published popular music

• It is hypothesised that Pachelbel's Canon was composed (but not published) at this time for one of his students, Johann Christoph Bach, for his wedding day.

Classical music

• Tomaso Albinoni – 12 Sonata a tre (Op. 1)
• Dieterich Buxtehude – VII suonate, op. 1 (date of publication unknown, but the print is listed in book fair catalogues of 1694)
• Arcangelo Corelli – Op. 4, 12 trio sonatas
• Henry Purcell – Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary for Mary II of England
• Johann Paul von Westhoff – Sonate a Violino solo con basso continuo

Opera

• Tomaso Albinoni – Zenobia, Regina de' Palmireni
• John Eccles – Macbeth
• Francesco Gasparini – Il Roderico
• Johann Philipp Krieger – Hercules unter denen Amazonen
• Alessandro Scarlatti – Pirro e Demetrio, premièred in Naples

Births

• July 4 – Louis-Claude Daquin, composer (died 1772)
• August 5 – Leonardo Leo, composer (died 1744)
• September 5 – František Václav Míča, conductor and composer (died 1744)
• date unknown – Pierre-Claude Foucquet, organist and harpsichordist (died 1772)

Deaths

• March 11 – Jean-Nicolas Geoffroy, organist and harpsichordist (born 1633)
• May 1 – Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt, wife of Johann Ambrosius Bach and mother of Johann Sebastian Bach (born 1644)
• May 17 – Johann Michael Bach, composer, brother of Johann Christoph Bach (born 1648)
• October 12 – Delphin Strungk, organist and composer (born 1600/1601)
• December 20 – Erasmus Finx, hymn-writer (born 1627)
• date unknown – René Ouvrard, writer and composer (born 1624)