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The year 1680 in music involved some significant events.
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Events
- Arcangelo Corelli begins his friendship with Cristiano Farinelli.
- Antonio Stradivari sets up his own business in Cremona.
- John Blow is forced out of his job as organist at Westminster Abbey, to make room for Henry Purcell.
- Georg Muffat goes to Italy to study organ with Bernardo Pasquini.
- Johann Philipp Krieger becomes Kapellmeister of the court at Weissenfels.
Published popular music
Classical music
- Dieterich Buxtehude - Membra Jesu Nostri
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier - Filius prodigus
Opera
- Pietro Simone Agostini - Il ratto delle Sabine
- Antonio Sartorio - La Flora
- Alessandro Scarlatti - L’Honestà negli amori
Births
- date unknown - François Campion, guitarist and composer
- November 18 (baptised) - Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer (died 1730)
Deaths
- May 31 - Joachim Neander, hymn-writer (b. 1650)
- September 10 - Baldassare Ferri, castrato singer (born 1610)
- October 13:
- Lelio Colista, composer and lutenist (b. 1629)
- François Roberday, organist and composer (b. 1624)
- December 10 - Marco Uccellini, violinist and composer
- date unknown - Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, violinist (born 1623)
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