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1689 in music

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The year 1689 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • September 1 – Johann Joseph Vilsmayr begins work at the Hofkapelle in Salzburg.
  • Nicolaus Bruhns is appointed town organist at Husum.

Classical music

  • Jean-Henri d'Anglebert – Pièces de clavecin
  • Giovanni Battista Bassani – Giona (oratorio)
  • Giovanni Paolo Colonna – Sacre lamentationi della Settimana santa a voce sola
  • Arcangelo Corelli – Op. 3, 12 trio sonatas
  • Michel Richard Delalande
    • Audite caeli, S.7
    • Quam dilecta S.12
    • De Profundis S.23
  • Domenico Gabrielli
    • Seven ricercari for solo cello
    • Cello Sonata No. 1 and No. 2
  • Johann Caspar Kerll – Missae sex, cum instrumentis concertantibus, a collection of concertato masses
  • Johann Kuhnau – Neuer Clavier-Übung, erster Theil
  • Michel Lambert
    • Airs de cour
    • Airs à une, II. III. et IV. parties avec la basse-continue
  • Giovanni Battista Vitali – Artificii musicali (Op. 13)

Opera

  • Antonio Caldara – L'Argene
  • Henri Desmarest – La Diane de Fontainebleau
  • Henry Purcell – Dido and Aeneas (libretto by Nahum Tate, first performed in London)
  • Poul Christian Schindler – Der vereinigte Götterstreit
  • Agostino Steffani – La Lotta d'Ercole con Acheloo

Births

  • February 27 – Pietro Gnocchi, composer (died 1775)
  • September 30 – Jacques Aubert, composer (died 1753)
  • November 3 – Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner, composer (died 1742)
  • December 23 – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, composer (died 1755)
  • date unknown – Edward Purcell, organist and co-founder of the Royal Society of Musicians (died 1740)

Deaths

  • November 13 – Philipp von Zesen, hymn-writer (born 1619)
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