The year 1694 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• October 23 – Marriage of Johann Christoph Bach (organist at Ohrdruf) to Dorothea von Hof. The guests include Johann Pachelbel, and his canon may have been composed for the occasion.^[1]
• Musician Johannes Kelpius and his group of "mystics" arrive at the Wissahickon Creek in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, bringing instruments that became an integral part of their church life.
• The semi-opera The Rape of Europa by Jupiter, with music by John Eccles and text by Peter Anthony Motteux, is staged in London.

Classical music

• Tomaso Albinoni – 12 Sonata a tre (Op. 1)
• Dieterich Buxtehude – VII suonate, Op. 1 (date of publication unknown, but the print is listed in book fair catalogues of 1694)
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier
  • Messe de minuit pour Noël, H. 9
  • Prélude pour le Domine salvum, H. 535
• Giovanni Paolo Colonna – Psalmi ad Vesperas, Op. 12
• Arcangelo Corelli – 12 trio sonatas, Op. 4
• Francisco Guerau – Poema Harmonico
• Henry Purcell
  • Te Deum and Jubilate Deo, Z. 232
  • Come, Ye Sons of Art Away, Z. 323
  • I Lov'd Fair Celia, Z. 381
  • Distressed Innocence, Z. 577
  • The Virtuous Wife, Z. 611
  • Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary for Mary II of England
• Alessandro Scarlatti – Correa nel seno amato, H. 146
• Antonio Veracini – 10 violin sonatas, Op. 2
• Johann Paul von Westhoff – Sonate a Violino solo con basso continuo

Opera

• Tomaso Albinoni – Zenobia, Regina de' Palmireni
• Giovanni Bononcini – Xerse
• Henri Desmarets – Circé
• John Eccles – Macbeth
• Francesco Gasparini – Il Roderico
• Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre – Céphale et Procris
• Johann Philipp Krieger – Hercules unter denen Amazonen
• Alessandro Scarlatti – Pirro e Demetrio, premièred in Naples

Births

• July 4 – Louis-Claude Daquin, composer (died 1772)
• August 5 – Leonardo Leo, composer (died 1744)
• September 5 – František Václav Míča, conductor and composer (died 1744)
• date unknown – Pierre-Claude Foucquet, organist and harpsichordist (died 1772)

Deaths

• March 11 – Jean-Nicolas Geoffroy, organist and harpsichordist (born 1633)
• May 1 – Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt, wife of Johann Ambrosius Bach and mother of Johann Sebastian Bach (born 1644)
• May 17 – Johann Michael Bach, composer, brother of Johann Christoph Bach (born 1648)^[2]
• October 12 – Delphin Strungk, organist and composer (born 1600/1601)
• December 20 – Erasmus Finx, hymn-writer (born 1627)
• date unknown – René Ouvrard, writer and composer (born 1624)

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