1687 in music

Events

• January 30 – Louis XIV's entrance into the city hall inspires André Raison to write his offertory, subtitled "Vive le Roi de Parisiens".
• During a performance of his own Te Deum, Jean-Baptiste Lully injures his foot with the point of his cane; this results in death from gangrene a few weeks later.
• Jean-Nicolas Francine, Lully's son-in-law, becomes director of the Paris Opera.

  Published popular music

Classical music

• John Blow – Ode for New Year's Day
• Dieterich Buxtehude – Der Herr ist mit mir, BuxWV 15
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier
• *Regina coeli, H.30
• *Sub tuum praesidium, H.352
• Michel Richard Delalande – Super flumina Babylonis, S.13
• Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre – Pièces de clavecin, Livre 1
• Nicolas Lebègue – Pieces de Clavessin, Livre 2
• Isabella Leonarda – Mottetti a 1, 2 e 3 voci con violini, e senza, Op.13
• Bernardo Pasquini – I fatti di Mosè nel deserto
• Henry Purcell
• *Oh Solitude, Z.406
• *Suite in G major, Z.662
• *A Song Tune, ZT.695
• Johann Adam Reincken – Hortus Musicus
• Gregorio Strozzi – Capricci da sonare cembali et organi
• Giovanni Battista degli Antoni – Ricercate, Op. 1, one of the earliest examples of music for solo cello
• Giovanni Battista degli Antoni – Versetti per tutti li tuoni, tanto naturali, Op. 2, one of the largest Italian publications of liturgical organ versets of the era

  Opera

• Antonio Draghi – La vendetta dell'onestà
• Giuseppe Fabrini – Lodovico
• Jean-Baptiste Lully, Pascal Collasse – Achille et Polyxène
• Carlo Pallavicino – La Gerusalemme Liberata
• André Danican Philidor – Le Canal de Versailles
• Bernardo Sabadini – Didio Giuliano
• Agostino Steffani – Alarico

  Births

• February 1 – Johann Adam Birkenstock, violinist and composer
• June 7 – Gaetano Berenstadt, castrato singer
• October 12 – Sylvius Leopold Weiss, lutenist and composer
• November 23 – Jean Baptiste Senaillé, violinist and composer
• December 5 – Francesco Geminiani, composer
• December 26 – Johann Georg Pisendel, composer
• date unknown – Charles King, musician and composer

  Deaths

• March 22 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer
• March 28 – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer
• April 25 – Johannes Caioni, priest, musician and organ repairer
• December 5 – Ercole Bernabei, composer
• date unknown
• *John Gamble, court musician and composer
• *Giovanni Battista Granata, guitarist and composer
• *Michael Wise, organist and composer
• *Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli