1695 in music

The year 1695 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * March 5 – The funeral of Queen Mary II of England takes place, accompanied by music written for the occasion by Henry Purcell.
 * Music publisher Henry Playford relocates his London shop to Temple Change.
 * John Walsh and John Hare establish themselves as music printers at the "Golden Harp and Hautboy" in Catherine Street, off the Strand in London.
 * The orphaned Johann Sebastian Bach is taken in by his cousin Johann Christoph Bach.
 * Johann Pachelbel settles in Nuremberg, where he will remain for the rest of his life.

Published popular music

 * The Compleat Flute-Master
 * Henry Playford's compiled Deliciæ musicæ

Classical music

 * Johann Sebastian Bach – Fugue in E minor, BWV 945 (authorship under debate)
 * John Blow – An Ode on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell
 * Jean-Baptiste Drouart de Bousset – Airs sérieux et à boire
 * Antonio Correa Braga – Batalha de No.6 Tom
 * Sébastien de Brossard – Dialogus Poenitentis animae cum Deo
 * Juan Cabanilles – Versets, tientos, gallardes, folies, etc., pera orgue
 * Andre Campra
 * Motets, Livre 1
 * Motets à voix seule
 * Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Lauda Sion, H.268
 * Lambert Chaumont
 * Pièces de clavecin
 * Pièces d’orgue sur les 8 tons
 * Pascal Collasse – Cantiques spirituels
 * Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer – Le Journal du Printemps, Op.1
 * Francesco Gasparini – Cantate da camera a voce sola, Op.1
 * Giuseppe Maria Jacchini – Sonata No.5 in D major
 * Johann Friedrich Meister – Il Giardino del Piacere
 * Georg Muffat – Florilegium Primum
 * Johann Pachelbel
 * Compositionen zumeist Fugen uber das Magnificat
 * Musikalische Ergötzung, vol. 2
 * Henry Purcell
 * Who can from Joy Refrain?, Z.342
 * The Knotting Song, Z.371
 * Pausanius, Z.585
 * The Tempest, Z.631 (authorship under debate)
 * John Ravenscroft – 12 Trio Sonatas, Op.1
 * Jean-Féry Rebel – 12 Trio Sonatas
 * Romanus Weichlein – Encaenia musices, Op.1

Opera

 * Tomaso Albinoni – Il prodigio dell'innocenza
 * Henry Purcell
 * The Indian Queen
 * Bonduca, Z.574

Theoretical writings

 * Johan Georg Ahlens musikalisches Frühlings-Gespräche by Johann Georg Ahle, on consonance and dissonance. First part of Ahle's Musikalische Gespräche series of treatises in form of dialogues.
 * Historia Musica by Giovanni Andrea Bontempi

Births

 * January 6 – Giuseppe Sammartini, oboist and composer (died 1750)
 * August 26 – Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault, singer and composer (died 1793)
 * September 3 – Pietro Locatelli, composer (died 1764)

Deaths

 * February 24 – Johann Ambrosius Bach, violinist (born 1645)
 * April 20 – Georg Caspar Wecker, organist and composer (born 1632)
 * November 21 – Henry Purcell, composer (born 1659)
 * November 28 – Giovanni Paolo Colonna, composer (born c.1637)
 * probable – Cataldo Amodei, Sicilian musician (born c. 1650)