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The year 1679 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Victims of the plague in Vienna include Anna Catharina, wife of Johann Kaspar Kerll. Kerll later commemorates the event in his Modulatio organica.

Published popular music

Classical music

• Johann Pachelbel
  • So ist denn dies der Tag
  • So ist denn nur die Treu.
• Choral music is composed by the Valladolid chapel-master Miguel Gomez Camargo (1654-1690).

Opera

• Johann Paul Agricola - Streit der Schönheit und der Tugend
• Petronio Franceschini - Apollo in Tessaglia
• Alessandro Scarlatti - Gli Equivoci nell’amore
• Marc'Antonio Ziani - Alessandro Magno in Sidone

Births

• January 5 - Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, organist, choirmaster and composer (died 1750)
• October 11 - Christian Vater, organ and harpsichord builder (died 1756)
• October 16 - Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer (died 1745)
• December 24 - Domenico Sarro, composer (died 1744)
• date unknown
  • Johann Georg Mozart, grandfather of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (died 1736)
  • Balthasar Siberer, organ teacher (died 1757)

Deaths

• June 27 - Pablo Bruna, blind organist and composer (born 1611)
• probable - Dietrich Becker, violinist and composer