1680 in music
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.
 - First record of the marimba in Guatemala.
 
Publications
    
- Denis Gaultier – Livres de tablature des pièces de luth
 - Ennemond Gaultier
- Livre de musique pour le luth contenant une métode
 - Pièces de luth en musique avec des règles pour les toucher parfaitement sur le luth, et sur le clavessin
 
 
Classical music
    
- Heinrich Biber – Mensa sonora
 - Dieterich Buxtehude – Membra Jesu Nostri
 - Marc-Antoine Charpentier 
- Filius prodigus
 - Leçon de ténèbres du Vendredi saint, H.105
 - Laudate pueri Dominum, H.203
 - Concert pour 4 parties de violes, H.545
 
 - Ennemond Gaultier – Suite in D minor
 - Johann Caspar Horn – Geistliche Harmonien
 - Charles Mouton – Pièces de luth sur différents modes
 - Henry Purcell 
- Beati omnes qui timent Dominum, Z.131
 - Fantasias and In Nomines, Z.732-747
 - Pavane and Chaconne in G minor, Z.752 (Pavane) and Z.730 (Chaconne)
 - 12 Sonatas of Three Parts, Z.790-801
 
 - Sebastian Anton Scherer – 14 Sonatas, Op.3
 - Johann Heinrich Schmelzer – Lamento sopra la morte di Ferdinand III (Published in the Rost Codex)
 - Giovanni Battista Vitali – Partite sopra diverse sonate
 
Opera
    
- Pietro Simone Agostini – Il ratto delle Sabine
 - Jean-Baptiste Lully – Proserpine
 - Antonio Sartorio – La Flora
 - Alessandro Scarlatti – L'honestà negli amori
 
Births
    
- April 19 – Johann Friedrich Helbig, hymnist (died 1722)
 - May 6 – Jean-Baptiste Stuck, cellist and composer (died 1755)
 - September 29 – Christian Friedrich Hunold, librettist (died 1721)
 - November 18 (baptised) – Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer (died 1730)
 - December 11 – Emanuele d'Astorga, composer (died 1736)
 - date unknown 
- Louis de Caix d'Hervelois, composer (died 1759)
 - François Campion, guitarist and composer
 - Giovanni Antonio Guido, violinist and composer (died 1729)
 
 
Deaths
    
- March 20 – Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, violinist (born 1623)
 - April 1 – David Denicke, hymnist (b. 1603)
 - 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)
 
 - November 27 – Athanasius Kircher, composer and polymath (born 1602)
 - December 10 – Marco Uccellini, violinist and composer
 - December 30 – Antonio Sartorio, composer (born 1630)
 - date unknown
- Kancherla Gopanna, composer of Carnatic music (born c.1620)
 - Maria Francesca Nascinbeni, composer (born c.1640)
 - Francisco de Trillo y Figueroa, poet and lyricist (born 1618)
 
 
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