Events in Music
- Jan 31 Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera "Bellerophon" premieres at the Palais-Royal in Paris
Musicians Born in 1679
- Jan 5 Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, Italian composer, born in Rome, Italy (d. 1750)
- Jan 19 Girolamo Chiti, Italian composer and music theorist, born in Siena (d. 1759)
- Feb 14 Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, German composer, born in Ostramondra, Thuringia, Germany (d. 1735)
- Feb 24 Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer
- May 12 Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, Italian composer and castrato (d. 1746)
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Musicians Who Died in 1679
- Jan 9 Werner Fabricius, German composer, dies at 45
- May 1 Esaias Reusner, German lutenist and composer, dies at 43
- Jun 27 Pablo Bruna, Spanish blind composer, dies at 68
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