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The year 1696 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Giacomo Antonio Perti becomes maestro di cappella to S Petronio, Bologna, where he remains for the rest of his life.

Published popular music

Classical music

• Henrico Albicastro - Il giardino armonico sacro-profano
• John Blow - Ode on the Death of Purcell
• Dieterich Buxtehude - Frische Klavierfrüchte
• Franz Xaver Murschhauser - Octi-tonium novum organicum, octo tonis ecclesiasticis, ad Psalmos, & magnificat

Opera

• Tomaso Albinoni - Zenone, Imperator d'Oriente
• Giuseppe Aldrovandini - Dafni
• Giovanni Bononcini - Il Trionfo di Camilla
• John Eccles - The Loves of Mars and Venus
• Bernardo Pasquini - Radamisto

Births

• February 10 - Johann Melchior Molter, violinist and composer (died 1765)
• May 23 - Johann Caspar Vogler, organist and composer (died 1763)
• August 12 - Maurice Greene, composer (died 1725)
• date unknown
  • Anna Maria of the Pietà, string player
  • Ernst Gottlieb Baron, lutenist and composer (died 1760)

Deaths

• April 21 - Jacques Gallot, composer
• May 31 - Heinrich Schwemmer, composer and music teacher (born 1621)
• date unknown - Michel Lambert, French composer of airs (born 1610)