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.

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

The following operas were composed:

• John Blow - Venus and Adonis
• Juan Hidalgo - 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
• date unknown - Nicolò Amati, violin-maker of Cremona (born 1596)