title: 1698 in music
text: # 1698 in music
  
  The year 1698 in music involved some significant events.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Henry Purcell's widow publishes the first volume of Orpheus Britannicus.
  * Antonio Stradivari makes the "Cabriac" violin.
  
  ## Classical music
  
  * Johann Sebastian Bach – Ach, was soll ich Sünder machen, BWV 770
  * Sébastien de Brossard – Retribue servo tuo, SdB.004
  * Antonio Caldara – Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo
  * Marc-Antoine Charpentier
     * Missa Assumpta est Maria, H.11
     * In nativitatem Domini canticum, H.421
  * Daniel Danielis – Cœleste Convivium del Signor (Coll. Brossard)
  * Michel Richard Delalande – Regina Coeli, S.53
  * Sebastian Knüpfer – Ecce quam bonum et quam iucundum (Psalm 133), for 5 solo voices, 5-part choir, 2 violins, 3 violas, bassoon, and basso continuo
  * Johann Krieger – Anmuthige Clavier-Übung (Nuremberg), a collection of 25 pieces for organ, including ricercars, fugues, preludes, etc.
  * August Kühnel – 14 Sonate ò Partite ad una o due viole da gamba, con il basso continuo (Kassel)
  * Isabella Leonarda – Salmi concertati a 4 voci con strumenti, Op. 19 (Bologna)
  * Christian Liebe – O Heiland aller Welt ich muß dir sehnlich klagen
  * Georg Muffat – Florilegium Secundum (Passau)
  * Daniel Purcell – 6 Sonatas or Solos
  * Johann Abraham Schmierer – Zodiaci musici
  * Giuseppe Torelli – Concerti musicali a quattro op.6
  
  ## Opera
  
  * Richard Leveridge – The Island Princess
  * Luigi Manza – Tito Manlio; Partenope
  * Alessandro Scarlatti
     * La donna ancora è fedele
     * Il prigioniero fortunato, R.346.36
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 3 – Metastasio, born Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, poet and opera librettist (died 1782)
  * July 24 – František Jiránek, composer (died 1778)
  * September 8 – François Francoeur, violinist and composer (died 1787)
  * date unknown
     * Pietro Auletta, composer (died 1771)
     * Antonio Bioni, composer (died 1739)
     * Riccardo Broschi, composer (died 1756)
     * Célestin Harst, priest, organist and composer (died 1778)
  * probable – Giovanni Battista Sammartini, composer (died 1775)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * date unknown – Thomas Connellan, composer and harpist (born c.1640)
  * probable – Nicola Matteis, violinist and composer (born c.1670)
  