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
- Giovanni Battista Granata – Armoniosi toni di varie suonate musicali per la chitarra spagnuola . . . Opera settima
- Alessandro Scarlatti – Agar et Ismaele esiliati (oratorio)
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)
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