1680 in music

The year 1680 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * Arcangelo Corelli begins his friendship with Cristiano Farinelli.
 * Antonio Stradivari sets up his own business in Cremona.
 * John Blow is forced out of his job as organist at Westminster Abbey, to make room for Henry Purcell.
 * Georg Muffat goes to Italy to study organ with Bernardo Pasquini.
 * Johann Philipp Krieger becomes Kapellmeister of the court at Weissenfels.
 * First record of the marimba in Guatemala.

Publications

 * Denis Gaultier – Livres de tablature des pièces de luth
 * Ennemond Gaultier
 * Livre de musique pour le luth contenant une métode
 * Pièces de luth en musique avec des règles pour les toucher parfaitement sur le luth, et sur le clavessin

Classical music

 * Heinrich Biber – Mensa sonora
 * Dieterich Buxtehude – Membra Jesu Nostri
 * Marc-Antoine Charpentier
 * Filius prodigus
 * Leçon de ténèbres du Vendredi saint, H.105
 * Laudate pueri Dominum, H.203
 * Concert pour 4 parties de violes, H.545
 * Ennemond Gaultier – Suite in D minor
 * Johann Caspar Horn – Geistliche Harmonien
 * Charles Mouton – Pièces de luth sur différents modes
 * Henry Purcell
 * Beati omnes qui timent Dominum, Z.131
 * Fantasias and In Nomines, Z.732-747
 * Pavane and Chaconne in G minor, Z.752 (Pavane) and Z.730 (Chaconne)
 * 12 Sonatas of Three Parts, Z.790-801
 * Sebastian Anton Scherer – 14 Sonatas, Op.3
 * Johann Heinrich Schmelzer – Lamento sopra la morte di Ferdinand III (Published in the Rost Codex)
 * Giovanni Battista Vitali – Partite sopra diverse sonate

Opera

 * Pietro Simone Agostini – Il ratto delle Sabine
 * Jean-Baptiste Lully – Proserpine
 * Antonio Sartorio – La Flora
 * Alessandro Scarlatti – L'honestà negli amori

Births

 * April 19 – Johann Friedrich Helbig, hymnist (died 1722)
 * May 6 – Jean-Baptiste Stuck, cellist and composer (died 1755)
 * September 29 – Christian Friedrich Hunold, librettist (died 1721)
 * November 18 (baptised) – Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer (died 1730)
 * December 11 – Emanuele d'Astorga, composer (died 1736)
 * date unknown
 * Louis de Caix d'Hervelois, composer (died 1759)
 * François Campion, guitarist and composer
 * Giovanni Antonio Guido, violinist and composer (died 1729)

Deaths

 * March 20 – Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, violinist (born 1623)
 * April 1 – David Denicke, hymnist (b. 1603)
 * May 31 – Joachim Neander, hymn-writer (b. 1650)
 * September 10 – Baldassare Ferri, castrato singer (born 1610)
 * October 13
 * Lelio Colista, composer and lutenist (b. 1629)
 * François Roberday, organist and composer (b. 1624)
 * November 27 – Athanasius Kircher, composer and polymath (born 1602)
 * December 10 – Marco Uccellini, violinist and composer
 * December 30 – Antonio Sartorio, composer (born 1630)
 * date unknown
 * Kancherla Gopanna, composer of Carnatic music (born c.1620)
 * Maria Francesca Nascinbeni, composer (born c.1640)
 * Francisco de Trillo y Figueroa, poet and lyricist (born 1618)