1686 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1686.Events
- The Dancing Master, 7th Edition.
Classical music
- Robert Carr – Divisions upon an Italian Ground
- Michel Richard Delalande – Ecce nunc benedicte, S.8
- Henry Du Mont – Benedic anima mea
- Johann Caspar Kerll
- *Modulatio organica
- *Toccata cromatica con durezze e ligature
- Marin Mariais – Pièces de viole, Livre 1
- Johann Christoph Pezel – Opus musicum sonatarum praestantissimarum
- Henry Purcell – Ye Tuneful Muses
- Vasily Titov – Psaltïr' rifmovannaya, vocal polyphonic setting of the Russian psalter
- Giuseppe Torelli – 10 Sonate a 3, with basso continuo, Op. 1
- Robert de Visée – Livre de pièces pour la guitare
Opera
- Francesco Ballaroti – Enea in Italia
- Jean-Baptiste Lully
- *Acis et Galatée, LWV 73
- *Armide, LWV 71
- Giacomo Antonio Perti– L'incoronazione di Dario
- Alessandro Scarlatti – Olimpia vendicata
Births
- July 31 – Benedetto Marcello, composer
- August 17 – Nicola Porpora, composer
- September – Charles Young, organist and composer
- October 31 – Senesino, castrato singer
- December 15 – Jean-Joseph Fiocco, composer
- December 25 – Giovanni Battista Somis, violinist and composer
Deaths
- date unknown – John Playford, music publisher
- probable – Augustin Pfleger, composer
