1698 in music

The year 1698 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * Henry Purcell's widow publishes the first volume of Orpheus Britannicus.
 * Antonio Stradivari makes the "Cabriac" violin.

Classical music

 * Johann Sebastian Bach – Ach, was soll ich Sünder machen, BWV 770
 * Sébastien de Brossard – Retribue servo tuo, SdB.004
 * Antonio Caldara – Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo
 * Marc-Antoine Charpentier
 * Missa Assumpta est Maria, H.11
 * In nativitatem Domini canticum, H.421
 * Daniel Danielis – Cœleste Convivium del Signor (Coll. Brossard)
 * Michel Richard Delalande – Regina Coeli, S.53
 * Sebastian Knüpfer – Ecce quam bonum et quam iucundum (Psalm 133), for 5 solo voices, 5-part choir, 2 violins, 3 violas, bassoon, and basso continuo
 * Johann Krieger – Anmuthige Clavier-Übung (Nuremberg), a collection of 25 pieces for organ, including ricercars, fugues, preludes, etc.
 * August Kühnel – 14 Sonate ò Partite ad una o due viole da gamba, con il basso continuo (Kassel)
 * Isabella Leonarda – Salmi concertati a 4 voci con strumenti, Op. 19 (Bologna)
 * Christian Liebe – O Heiland aller Welt ich muß dir sehnlich klagen
 * Georg Muffat – Florilegium Secundum (Passau)
 * Daniel Purcell – 6 Sonatas or Solos
 * Johann Abraham Schmierer – Zodiaci musici
 * Giuseppe Torelli – Concerti musicali a quattro op.6

Opera

 * Richard Leveridge – The Island Princess
 * Luigi Manza – Tito Manlio; Partenope
 * Alessandro Scarlatti
 * La donna ancora è fedele
 * Il prigioniero fortunato, R.346.36

Births

 * January 3 – Metastasio, born Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, poet and opera librettist (died 1782)
 * July 24 – František Jiránek, composer (died 1778)
 * September 8 – François Francoeur, violinist and composer (died 1787)
 * date unknown
 * Pietro Auletta, composer (died 1771)
 * Antonio Bioni, composer (died 1739)
 * Riccardo Broschi, composer (died 1756)
 * Célestin Harst, priest, organist and composer (died 1778)
 * probable – Giovanni Battista Sammartini, composer (died 1775)

Deaths

 * date unknown – Thomas Connellan, composer and harpist (born c.1640)
 * probable – Nicola Matteis, violinist and composer (born c.1670)