| Year |
Event |
| 1676 |
Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer, dies |
| 1676 |
Thomas Mace " Musick's Monument" |
| 1677 |
Robert Cambert, French opera composer, dies |
| 1677 |
Lully: "Isis" opera |
| 1678 |
Thomas Britton, English patron of music introduces weekly concerts in Clerkenwell, London |
| 1678 |
First German opera house opens in Hamburg |
| 1679 |
Lully: "Bellerophon" opera |
| 1679 |
Alessandro Scarlatti's first opera, "Gli Equivoci nell amore" Rome |
| 1680 |
First ballets arrive in Germany from France |
| 1680 |
Henry Purcell made organist of Westminster Abbey |
| 1680 |
Sadler's Wells at Islington, London, begins musical entertainments |
| 1680 |
Stradivari makes his earliest known cello |
| 1681 |
Female professional dancers appear for the first time at Paris opera |
| 1681 |
Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer, born |
| 1682 |
Lully: "Persee" opera |
| 1682 |
Henry Purcell made court composer to Charles II |
| 1683 |
Jean Philippe Rameau, French composer, born |
| 1684 |
Nicolo Amati dies |
| 1685 |
J.S. Bach, German composer, born |
| 1685 |
George Fredrick Handel, German-English composer , born |
| 1685 |
Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer, born |
| 1686 |
Lully: "Armide et Renaud," opera, P:Aris |
| 1686 |
Nicola Porpora, Italian composer, born |
| 1687 |
Lully dies |
| 1688 |
Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer and organist, born |
| 1689 |
Henry Purcell: "Dido and Aeneas" opera |
| 1690 |
Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian opera composer, dies |
| 1690 |
Purcell: "The Prophetess, or The History of Dioclesian" (Dorcet Gardens Theatre, London) |
| 1691 |
Purcell: "King Arthur, orThe British Worthy," opera;libretto by John Dryden |
| 1691 |
Andreas Werkmeister "Musikalische Temperatur" |
| 1692 |
Purcell: " Fairy Queen" |
| 1692 |
Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer and violinist, born |
| 1693 |
Allesandro Scarlatti: "Teodora," opera |
| 1694 |
Purcell writes the incidental music for Dryden' s "Love Triumphant," and "Te Deum" for St. Cecilia's Day |
| 1695 |
Maurice Green, English organist and composer, born |
| 1695 |
Purcell: "The Indian Queen" |
| 1695 |
Henry Purcell dies |
| 1696 |
Johann Kuhnau: "Frische Clavier-Fructe, oder sieben Suonaten," the sonata as a piece in several contrasting movements |
| 1697 |
John Blow's anthem, "I Was Glad When They Said," written for and given at the opeing of Wren's Choir of St. Paul's Cathedral, London |
| 1697 |
Johann Joachim Quantz, German flautist and composer, born |
| 1698 |
Metastasio, famous opera librettist, born |
| 1698 |
Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Italian composer and organist, born |
| 1699 |
Raoul Anger Feuillet: "Choreographie," manual on dance notation |
| 1699 |
Johann Adolf Hasse, German composer, born |
| 1700 |
William Croft: Incidental musci to "Courtship a la mode" |
| 1700 |
Joseph Sauveur measures and explains vibrations of musical tones |
Music History Timeline - 1676 to 1700
