1692 in music

none August 2026 1692 music The year 1692 in music involved some significant events. Events July 7 – Giuseppe Felice Tosi becomes second organist at San Petronio, Bologna. Seven-year-old George Frideric Handel visits the court of Saxony at Weissenfels. Duke Johann Adolf is so impressed at his playing of the organ that he advises his father to let him study music under Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau. Publications John Lenton and Thomas Tollett – A Consort of Musick of Three Parts Jacques Guislain Pamart – Messe et mottets à une, deux et 5 voix, instruments et ripienes, Op. 1 John Playford – The Banquet of Musick Johannes Schenk – Il giardino armonico, Op.3 Classical music Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber – Requiem in F Minor Dietrich Buxtehude Was mich auf dieser Welt betrübt, BuxWV 105 Trio Sonata in D major, BuxWV 267 Marc-Antoine Charpentier Magnificat à 4 voix avec instruments, H.79 Verbum caro, panum verbum, H.267 Canticum de Sancto Xaverio reformatum, H.355a Johann Kuhnau – Neuer Clavier-Übung, anderer Theil Marin Marais – Pièces en trio Rupert Ignaz Mayr – Pythagorische Schmids-Fuencklein Henry Purcell Ode to St. Cecilia, Z. 328 If Music be the Food of Love, Z.379 Stript of Their Green Our Groves Appear, Z.444 Aureng-Zebe, Z.573 Oedipus, Z.583 (inc. Musick for a While) The Libertine, Z.600 Ludovico Roncalli – Capricci armonici sopra la chitarra spagnola Giuseppe Torelli – Sinfonie a 3 e Concerti a 4, Op.5 Antonio Veracini – Trio Sonatas, Op.1 Opera Cataldo Amodei – La sirena consolata (lost) Carlo Agostino Badia – La ninfa Apollo Antonio Perti – Furio Camillo Henry Purcell – The Fairy Queen (masque) Births January 6 – Rynoldus Popma van Oevering, composer January 13 – Gunnila Grubb composer (died 1729) April 8 – Giuseppe Tartini, violinist and composer (died 1770) May 28 – Geminiano Giacomelli, opera composer (died 1740) November 2 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, composer (died 1766) November 21 – Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni, librettist (died 1768) Deaths February 24 – Antimo Liberati, Italian music theorist, composer, and contralto singer (b. 1617) July 10 – Heinrich Bach, German organist (born 1615) October 12 – Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian composer of sonatas (born c.1644)Giovanni Battista Vitali Baroque, Violin Sonatas, Chamber Music Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Battista-Vitali 2026-08-05 www.britannica.com en November 14 – Christoph Bernhard, German composer (born 1628) November 19 – Thomas Shadwell, librettist (born c.1642) date unknown – John Reading, organist and composer (born c.1645) References Category:17th century in music Category:Music by year