1695 in music

The year 1695 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• March 5 – The funeral of Queen Mary II of England takes place, accompanied by music written for the occasion by Henry Purcell.
• Music publisher Henry Playford relocates his London shop to Temple Change.
• John Walsh and John Hare establish themselves as music printers at the "Golden Harp and Hautboy" in Catherine Street, off the Strand in London.^[1]
• The orphaned Johann Sebastian Bach is taken in by his cousin Johann Christoph Bach.
• Johann Pachelbel settles in Nuremberg, where he will remain for the rest of his life.

Published popular music

• The Compleat Flute-Master^[2]
• Henry Playford's compiled Deliciæ musicæ

Classical music

• Johann Sebastian Bach – Fugue in E minor, BWV 945 (authorship under debate)
• John Blow – An Ode on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell
• Jean-Baptiste Drouart de Bousset – Airs sérieux et à boire
• Antonio Correa Braga – Batalha de No.6 Tom
• Sébastien de Brossard – Dialogus Poenitentis animae cum Deo
• Juan Cabanilles – Versets, tientos, gallardes, folies, etc., pera orgue
• Andre Campra
  • Motets, Livre 1
  • Motets à voix seule
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Lauda Sion, H.268
• Lambert Chaumont
  • Pièces de clavecin
  • Pièces d’orgue sur les 8 tons
• Pascal Collasse – Cantiques spirituels
• Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer – Le Journal du Printemps, Op.1
• Francesco Gasparini – Cantate da camera a voce sola, Op.1
• Giuseppe Maria Jacchini – Sonata No.5 in D major
• Johann Friedrich Meister – Il Giardino del Piacere
• Georg Muffat – Florilegium Primum
• Johann Pachelbel
  • Compositionen zumeist Fugen uber das Magnificat
  • Musikalische Ergötzung, vol. 2
• Henry Purcell
  • Who can from Joy Refrain?, Z.342
  • The Knotting Song, Z.371
  • Pausanius, Z.585
  • The Tempest, Z.631 (authorship under debate)
• John Ravenscroft – 12 Trio Sonatas, Op.1
• Jean-Féry Rebel – 12 Trio Sonatas
• Romanus Weichlein – Encaenia musices, Op.1

Opera

• Tomaso Albinoni – Il prodigio dell'innocenza
• Henry Purcell
  • The Indian Queen
  • Bonduca, Z.574

Theoretical writings

• Johan Georg Ahlens musikalisches Frühlings-Gespräche by Johann Georg Ahle, on consonance and dissonance. First part of Ahle's Musikalische Gespräche series of treatises in form of dialogues.
• Historia Musica by Giovanni Andrea Bontempi

Births

• January 6 – Giuseppe Sammartini, oboist and composer (died 1750)
• August 26 – Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault, singer and composer (died 1793)^[3]
• September 3 – Pietro Locatelli, composer (died 1764)

Deaths

• February 24 – Johann Ambrosius Bach, violinist (born 1645)
• April 20 – Georg Caspar Wecker, organist and composer (born 1632)
• November 21 – Henry Purcell, composer (born 1659)
• November 28 – Giovanni Paolo Colonna, composer (born c.1637)
• probable – Cataldo Amodei, Sicilian musician (born c. 1650)