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The year 1685 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• The father of Georg Philipp Telemann dies, leaving his widow to bring up the children.
• Antonio Stradivari makes the ex Arma Senkrah violin.
• John Blow is recorded among the private musicians of King James II of England.
• The 17-year-old François Couperin becomes organist at St Gervais in Paris.
• Giovanni Legrenzi becomes maestro di cappella at St Mark's Cathedral, Venice.

Published popular music

Classical music

• Arcangelo Corelli - Op. 2, 12 trio sonatas
• Henry Purcell - My heart is inditing (anthem), first performed at the coronation of King James II^[1]

Opera

• John Blow - Venus and Adonis
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier
  • La Couronne de fleurs
  • Les arts florissants
• Giuseppe Fabrini - La Genefieva
• Jean-Baptiste Lully - Roland

Births

• February 23 - George Frideric Handel, composer (died 1759)
• March 21 - Johann Sebastian Bach, composer (died 1750)
• June 26 - Antonio Maria Bernacchi, castrato singer (died 1756)
• June 30 - John Gay, poet, author of The Beggar's Opera (died 1732)
• October 26 - Domenico Scarlatti, composer (died 1757)
• December 12 - Lodovico Giustini, early composer for piano (died 1743)

Deaths

• date unknown - Ignazio Albertini, Italian musician and composer (born 1644)

References

1. ^ Palisca, Claude V. [1968] (1991). Baroque Music, 3rd, Prentice Hall History of Music, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 308. ISBN 0-13-058496-7.