1699 in music

The year 1699 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * February – Richard Leveridge, Daniel Purcell and Jeremiah Clarke collaborate on the music for an adaptation of Fletcher's The Island Princess.
 * John Blow is appointed to the newly created post of Composer to the Chapel Royal in England.
 * Antonio Caldara appointed maestro di cappella da chiesa e del teatro to Ferdinando Carlo, the last Gonzaga Duke of Mantua.
 * Quirinus Blankenburg is appointed organist at the Nieuwe Kerk in The Hague (however, he only started working there in 1702 after the new organ was completed).

Classical music

 * Carlo Agostino Badia
 * Imeneo trionfante, serenata for the wedding of Joseph I and Wilhelmine Amalie of Braunschweig-Lüneburg
 * Tributi armonici, 12 chamber cantatas (published circa 1699)
 * Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber – Sonata violino solo representativa
 * Giovanni Battista Brevi – La devotione canora: motetti, libro II, motets for voice and basso continuo
 * Antonio Caldara
 * Suonate da camera, op. 2; twelve trio sonatas
 * Cantate da camera a voce sola, op. 3; twelve cantatas
 * André Campra
 * Carnaval de Venise
 * Missa 'Ad majorem Dei gloriam'
 * Motets, Livre 2
 * Michel Richard Delalande – Confitebor tibi Domine in consilio, S.56
 * Rocco Greco – 31 sinfonie, 10 passacaglie, 11 brani strumentali
 * Nicolas de Grigny – Premier livre d'orgue, an organ Mass and hymn settings, comprising 42 pieces; second edition published in 1711
 * George Frideric Handel – Trio Sonata in G minor, HWV 387
 * Johann Pachelbel – Hexachordum Apollinis, six arias with variations for keyboard
 * Daniel Purcell – Ode for St Cecilia's Day, the second of the three such pieces by the composer
 * Alessandro Scarlatti – Clori mia, Clori bella, H.129

Publications

 * The first issue of Mercurius Musicus: or, the Monthly Collection of New Teaching Songs, one of the earliest planned periodicals of music scores, was published in London

Opera

 * Antonio Caldara – L'oracolo in sogno
 * Carlo Agostino Badia – Il Narciso
 * Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber – Trattenimento musicale del'ossequio di Salisburgo (large cantata; his last)
 * Francesco Gasparini – Mirena e Floro
 * Johann Mattheson – Die Plejades
 * Antonio Quintavalle, Antonio Caldara, and Antonio Pollarolo – L'oracolo in sogno
 * Alessandro Scarlatti – Gl'Inganni felici

Theoretical writings

 * Johan Georg Ahlens musikalisches Herbst-Gespräche by Johann Georg Ahle, on consonance and dissonance. Third part of Ahle's Musikalische Gespräche series of treatises in form of dialogues.
 * Primi elementi di musica per li principianti by Giovanni Battista Brevi

Births

 * January 14 – Jakob Adlung, musician (died 1762)
 * February 14 – Tobias Henrich Schubart librettist for Georg Telemann (died 1747)
 * March 25 – Johann Adolph Hasse, composer (died 1783)
 * May 4 – Giacomo Francesco Milano Franco d'Aragona, composer (died 1780)
 * November 13 – Jan Zach, violinist, organist and composer (died 1773)
 * December 17 – Charles-Louis Mion, composer (died 1775)
 * December 23 – Joseph Gibbs, composer (died 1788)
 * date unknown
 * René de Galard de Béarn, Marquis de Brassac, soldier and amateur composer (died 1771)
 * Johann Friedrich Ruhe, composer (died 1776)

Deaths

 * June 1 – Jean Rousseau, viol player and composer (born 1644)
 * April 11 – Friedrich Christian Bressand, librettist (born 1670)
 * October 20 – Friedrich Funcke, composer (born 1642)
 * December 30 – Pierre Robert, composer (born c.1618)
 * December 31 – Andreas Armsdorff, composer and organist
 * date unknown
 * Mario Agatea, singer, composer and instrument maker (born c.1623–28)
 * Isaac Blackwell, composer and organist
 * José Marín, composer (born 1619)
 * Charles Mouton, composer and lutenist (born 1617)
 * Pierre Robert, composer (born 1618)