1684 in music

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The year 1684 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Antonio Stradivari makes the Bucher, Cipriani Potter and Cobbett ex Holloway violins.
• An adaptation of Fletcher's Valentinian features music composed by Louis Grabu.

Published popular music

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Classical music

• Giovanni Battista Granata – Armoniosi toni di varie suonate musicali per la chitarra spagnuola . . . Opera settima
• Alessandro Scarlatti – Agar et Ismaele esiliati (oratorio)

Opera

• John Blow – Venus and Adonis
• Juan Hidalgo de Polanco – Apolo y Leucotea
• Jean-Baptiste Lully – Amadis de Gaule

Births

• March 15 – Francesco Durante, composer (died 1755)
• June 22 – Francesco Manfredini, violinist and composer (died 1762)
• September 18 – Johann Gottfried Walther, composer and music theorist (died 1748)

Deaths

• May 8 – Henri Dumont, composer
• September 10 – Johann Rosenmüller, German composer (born 1619)
• date unknown – Nicolò Amati, violin-maker of Cremona (born 1596)