1692 in music
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See also: 1691 in music, other events of 1692, 1693 in music and the list of 'years in music'.
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[edit] Events
- Seven-year-old George Frideric Handel visits the court of Saxony at Weissenfels. Duke Johann Adolf is so impressed at his playing of the organ that he advises his father to let him study music under Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau.
[edit] Published popular music
[edit] Classical music
[edit] Opera
- Antonio Perti - Furio Camillo
- Henry Purcell - The Fairy Queen (masque)
[edit] Births
- January 6 - Rynoldus Popma van Oevering, composer
- April 8 - Giuseppe Tartini, violinist and composer (died 1770)
- November 2 - Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, composer (died 1766)
[edit] Deaths
- October 12 - Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian composer of sonatas (born c.1644)
- November 14 - Christoph Bernhard, German composer (born 1628)
