1684 in music
See also: 1683 in music, other events of 1684, 1685 in music and the list of 'years in music'.
Events
- Antonio Stradivari makes the Bucher, Cipriani Potter and Cobbett ex Holloway violins
Published popular music
Classical music
- Giovanni Battista Granata - Armoniosi toni di varie suonate musicali per la chitarra spagnuola . . . Opera settima
- Alessandro Scarlatti - Agar et Ismaele esiliati (oratorio)
- 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 - Nicolo Amati, violin-maker of Cremona (born 1596)