1695 in music

The year 1695 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• March 5 – The funeral of Queen Mary II of England takes place, accompanied by music written for the occasion by Henry Purcell.
• Music publisher Henry Playford relocates his London shop to Temple Change.
• John Walsh and John Hare establish themselves as music printers at the "Golden Harp and Hautboy" in Catherine Street, off the Strand in London.^[1]
• The orphaned Johann Sebastian Bach is taken in by his cousin Johann Christoph Bach.
• Johann Pachelbel settles in Nuremberg, where he will remain for the rest of his life.

Published popular music

• The Compleat Flute-Master^[2]

Classical music

• Johann Pachelbel – Musikalische Ergötzung, vol. 2

Opera

• Tomaso Albinoni – Il prodigio dell'innocenza
• Henry Purcell – The Indian Queen

Theoretical writings

• Johan Georg Ahlens musikalisches Frühlings-Gespräche by Johann Georg Ahle, on consonance and dissonance. First part of Ahle's Musikalische Gespräche series of treatises in form of dialogues.

Births

• January 6 – Giuseppe Sammartini, oboist and composer (died 1750)
• August 26 – Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault, singer and composer (died 1791)
• September 3 – Pietro Locatelli, composer (died 1764)

Deaths

• February 24 – Johann Ambrosius Bach, violinist (born 1645)
• April 20 – Georg Caspar Wecker, organist and composer (born 1632)
• November 21 – Henry Purcell, composer (born 1659)
• November 28 – Giovanni Paolo Colonna, composer (born c.1637)
• probable – Cataldo Amodei, Sicilian musician (born c. 1650)

References