1684 in music

Events

• Antonio Stradivari makes the Bucher, Cipriani Potter and Cobbett ex Holloway violins.
• An adaptation of Fletcher's Valentinian features music composed by Louis Grabu.

  Classical music

• Dietrich Buxtehude
• *Herr auf dich traue ich, BuxWV 35
• *Herr nun läßt du deinen Diener, BuxWV 37
• *Lobe den Herrn meine Seele, BuxWV 71
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier
• *Litanies de la Vierge, H.83
• *Pro omnibus festis B V M, H.333
• *In nativitatem Domini canticum, H.414
• *Sur la naissance de notre Seigneur Jésus Christ, H.482
• *Pastorale sur la Naissance de Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ, H.483
• Domenico Gabrielli – Balletti, Op.1
• Giovanni Battista Granata – Armoniosi toni di varie suonate musicali per la chitarra spagnuola... Opera settima
• Jean-Baptiste Lully
• *Plaude laetare galia, LWV 37
• *Te Deum, LWV 55
• *De Profundis, LWV 62
• John Playford – The Division Violin
• Alessandro Scarlatti – Agar et Ismaele esiliati
• Giovanni Battista Vitali
• *Sinfonia a 6
• *Varie Sonate alla Francese, & all'Itagliana à sei Stromenti, Op.11

  Opera

• John Blow – Venus and Adonis
• Juan Hidalgo de Polanco – Apolo y Leucotea
• Jean-Baptiste Lully – Amadis de Gaule

  Births

• March 15 – Francesco Durante, composer
• June 22 – Francesco Manfredini, violinist and composer
• September 18 – Johann Gottfried Walther, composer and music theorist

  Deaths

• May 8 – Henri Dumont, composer
• September 10 – Johann Rosenmüller, German composer
• date unknown – Nicola Amati, violin-maker of Cremona