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)^[1]
Giovanni Maria Ruggieri – 10 Suonate da Chiesa, Op.4
Daniel Speer – Grund-richtiger Unterricht der Musicalischen Kunst

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.

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)