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.
- Henry Purcell – Musick's Handmaid
Classical music
- Jean-Henri d'Anglebert – Pièces de clavecin
- Giovanni Battista Bassani – Giona
- 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 – 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
Opera
- Antonio Caldara – L'Argene
- Henri Desmarest – La Diane de Fontainebleau
- Henry Purcell – Dido and Aeneas
- Poul Christian Schindler – Der vereinigte Götterstreit
- Agostino Steffani – La Lotta d'Ercole con Acheloo
Births
- February 27 – Pietro Gnocchi, composer
- September 30 – Jacques Aubert, composer
- November 3 – Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner, composer
- December 23 – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, composer
- date unknown – Edward Purcell, organist and co-founder of the Royal Society of Musicians
Deaths
- November 13 – Philipp von Zesen, hymn-writer
