1689 in music

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.

Published popular music Henry Purcell – Musick's Handmaid

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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