title: 1681 in music
text: # 1681 in music
  
  The year 1681 in music involved some significant events.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Arcangelo Corelli is employed by the electoral prince of Bavaria.
  * Giovanni Legrenzi becomes assistant maestro di cappella at St Mark's, Venice.
  * Jean-Baptiste Lully is appointed court secretary to King Louis XIV of France.
  * Antonio Stradivari makes the Fleming violin.
  
  ## Classical music
  
  * Heinrich Biber – 8 Violin Sonatas, C 138-145
  * Dietrich Buxtehude
     * Afferte Domino gloriam honorem, BuxWV 2
     * Gen Himmel zu dem Vater mein, BuxWV 32
     * Kommst du Licht der Heiden, BuxWV 66
     * Sicut Mose, BuxWV 97
     * Ich habe Lust abzuscheiden, BuxWV 46
  * Giovanni Paolo Colonna
     * Motetti sacri, Op. 2
     * Motetti, Op.3
  * Arcangelo Corelli – Op. 1, 12 trio sonatas
  * Henry Dumont
     * Motets à II, III et IV parties pour voix et instruments avec la basse continue
     * Benedicite Deum cæli
     * Jubilate Deo
  * Johann Melchoir Gletle – Ave Maria (I and II)
  * Carlo Piazzi – Balletti, Op.2
  * Henry Purcell – Suite for Strings, Z.770
  * Alessandro Stradella – Il Barcheggio
  
  ## Opera
  
  * Domenico Freschi – Pompeo Magno in Cilicia
  * Jean-Baptiste Lully – Le Triomphe de l’Amour (ballet)
  * Agostino Steffani – Marco Aurelio
  * Marc Antonio Ziani – La Flora (composition begun by Antonio Sartorio, who died during composition)
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Johann Wolfgang Franck – Geistliche Lieder (Compositions by Franck, Georg Böhm, and Peter Laurentius Wockenfuss)
  * Andreas Werckmeister – Orgel-Probe (the first appearance of the tuning system known as the Werckmeister temperament)
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 20 – Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer (died 1732)
  * March 14 – Georg Philipp Telemann, composer (died 1767)
  * April 11 – Anne Danican Philidor, composer and concert organizer (died 1728)
  * September 4 – Carl Heinrich Biber, composer (died 1749)
  * September 28 – Johann Mattheson, composer (died 1764)
  * December 14 – Giuseppe Valentini, violinist and composer (died 1753)
  * date unknown – Giovanni Battista Reali, composer (died 1751)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * May 25 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca, librettist (born 1600)
  * June 27 – Ernst Christoph Homburg, librettist (born 1607)
  * July 8 – Georg Neumark, hymnist (born 1621)
  * October 22 – Benedetto Ferrari, composer (born c. 1603)
  * date unknown – Francesco Corbetta, guitarist and composer (born c.1615)
  * date unknown – Benedetto Ferrari, opera composer (born c.1603)
  