1697 in music

The year 1697 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * Antonio Stradivari makes the Castelbarco cello.
 * Giuseppe Torelli arrives at the court of Ansbach.
 * Daniel Purcell and Jeremiah Clarke collaborate on the music for Elkanah Settle's play, World in the Moon.
 * The Opéra du Quai au Foin in Brussels closes for the last time.

Publications

 * Guilio Cesare Arresti – 18 Sonate da organo di varii autori (includes work by Pietro Ziani, Giovanni Bassani, Giovanni Colonna, Bernardo Pasquini, and others, as well as Arresti himself)
 * Philipp Heinrich Erlebach – Harmonische Freude musicalischer Freunde
 * Aurelio Paolini – Suonate da camera a 3, Op. 1 (Venice: Giuseppe Sala)
 * Henry Purcell – Ten Sonata’s in Four Parts (trio sonatas), published posthumously in London (Nos. 1–4 composed c1678–79, Nos. 7–9 possibly in 1681–82, No. 10 possibly 1683–84)
 * Giovanni Maria Ruggieri – 10 Suonate da Chiesa, Op.4
 * Daniel Speer – Grund-richtiger Unterricht der Musicalischen Kunst

Classical music

 * Jeremiah Clarke – The Duke of Glocester's March
 * François Couperin – Laudate pueri
 * Henri Dumont – Motets de Mr. Dumont a 4 parties
 * Johann Krieger
 * Sechs musicalische Partien
 * Uns ist ein Kind geboren
 * Carl Rosier – Sonata in C major, Kuckuckssonate
 * Johann Christoph Rothe – St Matthew Passion

Opera

 * Hendrik Anders – Min- en wijn-strijd
 * Antonio Caldara – La promessa sebata al primo
 * André Campra – L'Europe galante (opera-ballet)
 * Sebastiano Cherici – Ildegonda
 * Henri Desmarets – Venus et Adonis
 * André Cardinal Destouches – Issé
 * Louis de Lacoste – Aricie
 * Alessandro Scarlatti
 * La Caduta del Decemviri
 * L'Emireno, R.345.32

Theoretical writings

 * Johan Georg Ahlens musikalisches Sommer-Gespräche by Johann Georg Ahle, on cadences, rhetorical figures, and modes. Second part of Ahle's Musikalische Gespräche series of treatises in form of dialogues.

Births

 * January 1 – Johann Pfeiffer, violinist and composer (died 1761)
 * January 30 – Johann Joachim Quantz, flautist and composer (died 1773)
 * April 16 – Johann Gottlieb Görner, organist and composer (died 1778)
 * April 26 – Adam Falckenhagen, lutenist and composer (died 1754)
 * May 10 – Jean-Marie Leclair, violinist and composer (died 1764)
 * June 11 – Francesco Antonio Vallotti, organist, music theorist and composer (died 1780)
 * November 9 – Claudio Casciolini, composer (died 1760)
 * December 5 – Giuseppe de Majo, organist and composer (died 1771)
 * December 6 – Carlo Arrigoni, composer (died 1744)

Deaths

 * January 4 – Amalia Catharina, Countess of Erbach, poet and composer (born 1640)
 * January 6 – Carlo Mannelli, violinist, castrato and composer (born 1640)
 * March 23 – William Child, organist and composer (born 1606)
 * March 29 – Nicolaus Bruhns, organist and composer (born 1665)
 * May 29 – Giovanni Francesco Grossi, singer (born 1653)