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.

Classical music

• Dietrich Buxtehude
  • Herr auf dich traue ich, BuxWV 35
  • Herr nun läßt du deinen Diener, BuxWV 37
  • Lobe den Herrn meine Seele, BuxWV 71
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier
  • Litanies de la Vierge, H.83
  • Pro omnibus festis B V M, H.333
  • In nativitatem Domini canticum, H.414
  • Sur la naissance de notre Seigneur Jésus Christ, H.482
  • Pastorale sur la Naissance de Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ, H.483
• Domenico Gabrielli – Balletti, Op.1
• Giovanni Battista Granata – Armoniosi toni di varie suonate musicali per la chitarra spagnuola . . . Opera settima
• Jean-Baptiste Lully
  • Plaude laetare galia, LWV 37
  • Te Deum, LWV 55
  • De Profundis, LWV 62
• John Playford – The Division Violin
• Alessandro Scarlatti – Agar et Ismaele esiliati (oratorio)
• Giovanni Battista Vitali
  • Sinfonia a 6
  • Varie Sonate alla Francese, & all'Itagliana à sei Stromenti, Op.11

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 – Nicola Amati, violin-maker of Cremona (born 1596)