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The year 1684 in music involved some significant events.
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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.
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)
Opera
The following operas were composed:
- 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
- September 10 - Johann Rosenmüller, German composer (born 1619)
- date unknown - Nicolò Amati, violin-maker of Cremona (born 1596)
