1688 in music

Events

• Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, hired Bartolomeo Cristofori as his keeper of musical instruments.

  Published popular music

• Lilliburlero in popular circulation

  Classical music

• John Blow – Ode for New Year's Day
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier
• *Magnificat à 4 voix sans instruments, H.76
• *Dixit Dominus H.202
• Gottfried Finger – 12 Sonatas for Diverse Instruments, Op.1
• Johann Philipp Krieger – O Jesu, du mein Leben
• Henry Purcell – A Fool's Preferment, Z.571
• André Raison – Premier livre d'orgue
• Johann Schenck – Tyd en Konst-Oeffeningen, Op.2
• Daniel Speer
• *Philomela angelica cantionum sacrarum
• *Musikalisch-türkischer Eulenspiegel
• Giuseppe Torelli – 12 Concertino per camera for Violin and Cello, Op. 4, published in Bologna
• Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani – Salmi, Mottetti e Litanie della B. V. a 1. 2. 3. voci
• Johann Jakob Walther – Hortulus chelicus

  Opera

• Marc-Antoine Charpentier – David et Jonathas
• Johann Philipp Förtsch – Die heilige Eugenia
• Jean-Louis Lully – Zephire et Flore
• Henry Purcell – Dido and Aeneas Z.626
• Philidor André Danican l'aine – Le Mariage de la grosse Cathos

  Births

• April 15 – Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer
• October 17 – Domenico Zipoli, composer
• date unknown
• *Zacharias Hildebrandt, organ builder
• *Lorenzo Sornis, violinist

  Deaths

• January 8 – Francesco Foggia, composer
• January 29 – Carlo Pallavicino, Italian composer
• May 14 – Carlo Grossi, composer
• November 26 – Philippe Quinault, librettist for many operas of Jean-Baptiste Lully
• date unknown – Anne Chabanceau de La Barre