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Chronology The Late Baroque Era MUSIC AND MUSICIANS POLITICS, WAR, RULERS 1671 Scipione a.ffricano (1664) by Francesco 1671 Emperor Leopold I promises Cavalli (1602-76) inaugurates the Teatro neutrality if France attacks Holland as Tordinona, Rome. Tragidie-ballet, Psychi, long as Louis XIV does not invade by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-87) and Spain or the Empire. Moliere (1622-73) (with Philippe Quinault and Pierre Corneille), given in Paris. Pomone, by Robert Cambert (c1627-1677), given in Paris. 1672 Heinrich Schutz (87) dies, Dresden. 1672 William of Orange (later William Jacques Champion de Chambonnieres III of England) elected Stadholder of (c70) dies, Paris. Lully acquires Holland. Third Anglo-Dutch War, ownership of the Academie Royale de (-1674): English defeated at Texel in Musique. John Banister (c1625-1679) 1673 and withdraw with gains in 1674. presents first known concerts where admission is charged, in London. Los celos hacen estrellas (earliest surviving zarzuela with music), by Juan Hidalgo (c1614-1685), given in Madrid. 1673 Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643- 1673 Emperor Leopold I declares war on 1704) and Moliere collaborate on Le France after allying with the Dutch. malade imaginaire, Lully and Quinault on the first tragidie en musique, Cadmus et Hermione, both given in Paris. 1674 Giacomo Carissimi (68) dies, Rome. 1674 John Sobieski elected King of Poland Pelham Humfrey (c27) dies, Windsor. after defeating the Turks at Korzim in Lully's Alceste performed in Paris. A new 1673. Triple Alliance of Austria, Holland Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, opens in and Spain, later joined by the papacy London. and Brandenburg, against the French. 1675 Matthew Locke (c1621-1677) and G. 1675 Turenne's death and Conde's B. Draghi (c1640-1708) compose music retirement bring an end to French for Shadwell's English version of Lully's military victories and expansion. Psychi (1671). 1676 Cavalli (73) dies, Venice. Lully's 1676 Denmark declares war on Sweden Arys given, Saint-Germain-en-Laye. but defeated by Charles XI at Lunden. Thomas Mace (c1612-cl706) publishes Musick's Monument in London. 1677 Cambert (c50) dies, London. Locke 1677 William of Orange marries Princess (c55) dies, London. Pope Innocent XI Mary, elder daughter of James, Duke of bans theatre and opera in Rome. Lully's York, brother and heir of Charles II of Isis stirs controversy at premiere at England, a declared Roman Catholic. Saint-Germain-en-Laye. 1678 Giovanni Maria Bononcini (c36) 1678 Peace of Nijmegen ends the Franco dies, Modena. Teatro S Giovanni Dutch war (begun 1672). France returns Grisostomo opens in Venice. Opera all Dutch conquests and repeals house in the Gansemarkt, Hamburg, Colbert's anti-Dutch tariff ofl667. opens. Thomas Britton institutes weekly France makes peace with Spain. Popish musical meetings, open to the public, in Plot (-1679), an alleged conspiracy, leads London. Carolus Hacquart (c1640- to the passing of the Test Act in ?1701) and Dirck Buysero collaborate on England, the exile of James, Duke of De triomfeerende min (earliest Dutch opera) York, and the Exclusion Crisis (an in Amsterdam. attempt to exclude James's succession). 468 Chronology, 1671-1750 LITERATURE, SCIENCE, FINE AND PHILOSOPHY, TECHNOLOGY, DECORATIVE ARTS, RELIGION DISCOVERY ARCHITECTURE 1671 William Wycherly 1671 Gottfried Wilhelm 1671 Pierre Puget (1620- (1641-75) writes Love in a von Leibniz (1646-1716) 94) begins the Milo of Wood and The Gentleman begins work on his Crotona (-1682) for Dancing Master. calculating machine. Versailles. 1672 The Synod of 1672 Otto von Guericke 1672 Willem van der Jerusalem, the most (1602-86) describes his Velde (1611-93) and his important modern invention of the vacuum son ( 1653-1707) settle in Council of the Eastern pump. Isaac Newton England and paint Church, repudiates (1642-1726) establishes maritime scenes. movement towards the existence of distinct accommodating coloured rays in white Calvinism. light. Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet explore north of the River Missouri, near modern Chicago (-1673). 1673 Edward Pierce (c1635-95) executes a 1674 Nicolas Malebranche 1673 Christiaan Huygens marble bust of Sir (1638-1715) publishes La ( 1629-95) solves the Christopher Wren. recherche de Ia viriti, which problem of the compound tends towards pantheism. pendulum and states the 1674 Baciccio (Giovanni laws of centrifugal force. Battista Gaulli, 1639- 1708) paints the Philipp Spener Leibniz works towards 1675 illusionist Adoration of the (1635-1705) publishes the discovery of Name ofJesus on the Pia desideria, aimed at differential and integral ceiling of II Gesu, Rome revival in calculus (-1675). fostering a (-1679), and the nave German Protestantism vault, a masterpiece of known as the 1674John Mayow (1641- (later Baroque illusionist Pietist movement). 79) describes respiration, and recognizes the decoration. existence of oxygen. 1676 Sir George Etherege 1675 Pedro Roldan (1624- (c1634-1691) writes his 1700) completes the comedy The Man of Mode. 1675 Royal Observatory, Greenwich, founded, with reredos for La Caridad, John Flamsteed (1646- Seville. Franc;ois 1677 Jean Racine (1639- Girardon (1628-1715) 99) writes his last 1719) as Astronomer Royal. begins the monument to tragedy, P!Udre, before Richelieu in the church of abandoning the theatre to 1676 Ole Remer (1644- the Sorbonne, Paris. become historiographer Christopher Wren (1632- to Louis XIV. 171 0) demonstrates the first proof of the finite 1723) builds St Paul's Cathedral (-1709). 1678 Ralph Cudworth velocity of light. (1617-88), a 'Cambridge 1677 Liberal Bruant Platonist', publishes The (d635-1697) completes True Intellectual System of the Hotel des Invalides, the Universe, arguing that Paris. the only real source of knowledge is Christianity. 1678 Rene de La Salle John Bunyan (1628-88) (1643-87) explores the publishes the first part of Great Lakes of Canada The Pilgrim's Pro ress. (-1679). 469 The Late Baroque Era MUSIC AND MUSICIANS POLITICS, WAR, RULERS 1679 Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c1620- 1679 Sweden signs peace treaties with 1680) becomes first Austrian-born Brandenburg and Denmark, regaining Habsburg Kapellmeister of this century. most of her lost territories. King Charles Henry Purcell (1659-95) succeeds John II of Spain marries Marie-Louise of Blow (1649-1708) as organist at Orleans. Westminster Abbey, London. First opera by Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725), Gli equivoci nel sembiante, given in Rome. 1680 Schmelzer (c60) dies, Prague. York 1680 Death of Ferdinand I, Elector of Buildings (housing a public concert Bavaria; succeeded by his son room) erected in London. Maximilian II Emanuel. 1681 Lully appointed sicretaire du roi. Christoph Bernhard (1628-92) appointed Dresden Hofkapellmeister. Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) publishes op.l in Rome. Opera du Quai du Foin (later Theatre de Ia Monnaie) opens, Brussels. 1682 Murder of Alessandro Stradella (37), nr Genoa. Draghi appointed Viennese Hofkapellmeister. 53-part Missa salisburgensis performed in Salzburg. 1683 By the League of the Hague, the 1683 Lully composes his De pro.fundis in Emperor Leopold I and King Charles II Paris. Purcell's [12} Sonnata's of III Parts of Spain join the existing Dutch-Swedish published, London. alliance against France. Siege of Vienna (by the Turks) relieved; Turkish armies 1684 Nicolo Amati (87) dies, Cremona. defeated at Kahlenberg by John III Alessandro Scarlatti appointed viceregal Sobieski of Poland and Charles of maestro di cappella and music director of Lorraine. the Teatro S Bartolomeo, Naples. Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722) appointed organist 1684 Treaty of Regensburg ends five years at the Thomaskirche, Leipzig. Heinrich of French legalistic and diplomatic Biber (1664-1704) appointed aggression. Kapellmeister at Salzburg. 1685 Death of Charles II of England; Juan Hidalgo (c70) dies, Madrid. 1685 succeeded by his brother, the Roman Carelli's op.2 published, Rome. Lully's Catholic James II. The Duke of &land given, Versailles. John Playford Monmouth, Charles's illegitimate son, (1623--86) publishes The Division Violin, leads an unsuccessful rebellion. London. Revocation of the Edict of Nantes causes 1686 Playford (63) dies, London. widespread emigration of French Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-90) appointed Huguenots. The Protestant Great Elector maestro di cappella at St Mark's, Venice. of Brandenburg withdraws from his Lully's Armide given and Marin Marais alliance with France. (1656-1728) publishes his first volume of Pieces de violes, Paris. 1686 The League of Augsburg formed between the Habsburg emperor, Spain, 1687 Lully (54) dies, Paris. Constantijn Sweden, Saxony, the Palatinate and Huygens (90) dies, The Hague. Brandenburg against Louis XIV. Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (c1666-1729) publishes first collection of 1687 Battle of Mohacs. Turks defeated by Pieces de clavecin and Jean Rousseau Charles of Lorraine. Diet of Pressburg (1644-?cl700) his Traiti de la viole, in ratifies the Hungarian crown as Paris. hereditary in the male Habsburg line. 470 Chronology, 1671-1750 LITERATURE, SCIENCE, FINE AND PHILOSOPHY, TECHNOLOGY, DECORATIVE ARTS, RELIGION DISCOVERY ARCHITECTURE 1679 Olaus Rudbeckius 1679 Edmond Halley 1679 Antoine Coysevoix ( 1630-1702) claims (1656--1742) publishes his ( 1640-1720) works on a Sweden as the lost catalogue of the stars of relief of Louis XIV for Atlantis in At/and eller the southern hemisphere the Salon de Guerre at Manhem. as observed in St Helena. Versailles. Charles Denis Papin (1647-1712) Lebrun (1619-90) paints 1680 The Comedie demonstrates