1684 in music

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 Bassani – Affetti canori, cantate et ariette, Op.6
 * Dietrich Buxtehude
 * Dein edles Herz, der Liebe Thron, BuxWV 14
 * Herr auf dich traue ich, BuxWV 35
 * Herr nun läßt du deinen Diener, BuxWV 37
 * Lobe den Herrn meine Seele, BuxWV 71
 * Marc-Antoine Charpentier
 * Litanies de la Vierge, H.83
 * Pro omnibus festis B V M, H.333
 * In nativitatem Domini canticum, H.414
 * Sur la naissance de notre Seigneur Jésus Christ, H.482
 * Pastorale sur la Naissance de Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ, H.483
 * Michel Richard de Lalande – Te Deum S.32
 * Domenico Gabrielli – Balletti, Op.1
 * Giovanni Battista Granata – Armoniosi toni di varie suonate musicali per la chitarra spagnuola . . . Opera settima
 * Johann Krieger – Ich will in Friede fahren
 * Isabella Leonarda – Mottetti a voce sola, Op.11
 * Jean-Baptiste Lully
 * Plaude laetare galia, LWV 37
 * Te Deum, LWV 55
 * De Profundis, LWV 62
 * John Playford – The Division Violin
 * Henry Purcell – From those serene and rapturous joys, Z.326
 * Pierre Robert – Motets pour la Chapelle du Roy
 * Alessandro Scarlatti – Agar et Ismaele esiliati (oratorio)
 * Giovanni Battista Vitali
 * Sinfonia a 6
 * Sonate da Chiesa à due Violini, Op.9
 * Varie Sonate alla Francese, & all'Itagliana à sei Stromenti, Op.11

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)
 * September 23 – Johann Theodor Römhild, composer (died 1756)
 * October 30 – Maria Barbara Bach, first wife of J.S. Bach (died 1720)
 * date unknown
 * François d' Agincour, composer (died 1758)
 * Georg Christian Lehms, librettist (died 1717)

Deaths

 * April 12 – Nicola Amati, violin-maker of Cremona (born 1596)
 * May 8 – Henri Dumont, Netherlandish composer (born 1610)
 * July 5 – Johann Hildebrand, composer (born 1614)
 * September 10 – Johann Rosenmüller, German composer (born 1619)
 * October 1 – Pierre Corneille, French librettist (born 1606)