1696 in music

The year 1696 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * Giacomo Antonio Perti becomes maestro di cappella to S Petronio, Bologna, where he remains for the rest of his life.
 * Francesco Antonio Pistocchi becomes maestro di cappella to the Duke of Ansbach.

Classical music

 * Henrico Albicastro – Il giardino armonico sacro-profano
 * Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber – Harmonia artificioso-ariosa
 * John Blow – Ode on the Death of Purcell
 * Dieterich Buxtehude – VII suonate, op. 2
 * Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Ego mater agnitionis, H.371
 * Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer – Les pièces de clavessin, Op.2
 * Johann Kuhnau – Frische Klavierfrüchte
 * Isabella Leonarda – Messe e motetti concertate, Op.18
 * Nicola Matteis – A Collection of New Songs
 * Franz Xaver Murschhauser – Octi-tonium novum organicum, octo tonis ecclesiasticis, ad Psalmos, & magnificat
 * Henry Purcell – A Choice Collection of Lessons for the Harpsichord or Spinnet (published posthumously)
 * Johann Paul von Westhoff – Six Partitas for solo violin

Opera

 * Tomaso Albinoni – Zenone, Imperator d'Oriente
 * Giuseppe Aldrovandini – Dafni
 * Giovanni Bononcini – Il Trionfo di Camilla
 * Sebastián Durón – Salir el amor del mundo
 * John Eccles – The Loves of Mars and Venus
 * Marin Marais – Ariane et Bacchus
 * Bernardo Pasquini – Radamisto
 * Daniel Purcell – Brutus of Alba
 * Alessandro Scarlatti – La Didone delirante, R.344.30

Births

 * February 10 – Johann Melchior Molter, violinist and composer (died 1765)
 * February 17 – Ernst Gottlieb Baron, lutenist and composer (died 1760)
 * May 23 – Johann Caspar Vogler, organist and composer (died 1763)
 * August 12 – Maurice Greene, composer (died 1725)
 * November 11 – Andrea Zani, violinist and composer (died 1757)
 * December 25 – Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, amateur composer (died 1715)
 * date unknown
 * Pierre Février, organist, harpsichordist and composer (died 1760)
 * Marged ferch Ifan, harpist and wrestler (died 1793)

Deaths

 * April 21 – Jacques Gallot, composer
 * May 31 – Heinrich Schwemmer, composer and music teacher (born 1621)
 * June 29 – Michel Lambert, French composer of airs (born 1610)
 * July 25 – Clamor Heinrich Abel, German composer (born 1634)