Events

January 30 – Louis XIV's entrance into the city hall inspires André Raison to write his offertory, subtitled "Vive le Roi de Parisiens" ("Long live the King of Parisians").
During a performance of his own Te Deum, Jean-Baptiste Lully injures his foot with the point of his cane; this results in death from gangrene a few weeks later.
Jean-Nicolas Francine, Lully's son-in-law, becomes director of the Paris Opera.

Publications

John Blow – Ode for New Year's Day
Dieterich Buxtehude
- Bedenke Mensch das Ende, BuxWV 9
- Der Herr ist mit mir, BuxWV 15
- Domine salvum fac regem, BuxWV 18
- Eins bitte ich vom Herrn, BuxWV 24
- Herren vår Gud, BuxWV 40
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- Regina coeli, H.30
- Sub tuum praesidium, H.352
Michel Richard Delalande – Super flumina Babylonis, S.13
Giovanni Antonio Gianettini – L'uomo in bivio
Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre – Pièces de clavecin, Livre 1
Nicolas Lebègue – Pieces de Clavessin, Livre 2
Isabella Leonarda
- Mottetti a 1, 2 e 3 voci con violini, e senza, Op.13
- Motetti a voce sola, Op.14
Bernardo Pasquini – I fatti di Mosè nel deserto
Henry Purcell
- Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drum, Z.335
- Oh Solitude, Z.406
- Suite in G major, Z.662
- A Song Tune, ZT.695
Johann Adam Reincken – Hortus Musicus
Gregorio Strozzi – Capricci da sonare cembali et organi
Giovanni Battista degli Antoni
- Ricercate, Op. 1, one of the earliest examples of music for solo cello
- Versetti per tutti li tuoni, tanto naturali, Op. 2, one of the largest Italian publications of liturgical organ versets of the era

February 1 – Johann Adam Birkenstock, violinist and composer (died 1733)
June 7 – Gaetano Berenstadt, castrato singer (died 1734)
July 16 – Paolo Antonio Rolli, librettist (died 1765)
c. August 26 – Henry Carey, poet, dramatist, songwriter and theatrical composer (suicide 1743)
October 12 – Sylvius Leopold Weiss, lutenist and composer (died 1750)
November 23 – Jean Baptiste Senaillé, violinist and composer (died 1730)
December 5 – Francesco Geminiani, composer (died 1762)
December 26 – Johann Georg Pisendel, composer (died 1755)
date unknown
- Willem de Fesch, musician and composer (died 1761)
- William Hine, composer (died 1730)
- Charles King, musician and composer (died 1748)
- François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif, librettist (died 1770)