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1688 in music

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The year 1688 in music involved some significant events.

Events

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

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 (died 1758)
  • October 17 – Domenico Zipoli, composer (died 1726)
  • date unknown
    • Zacharias Hildebrandt, organ builder (died 1777)
    • Lorenzo Sornis, violinist

Deaths

  • January 8 – Francesco Foggia, composer (b. 1604)
  • January 29 – Carlo Pallavicino, Italian composer (b. c. 1630)
  • May 14 – Carlo Grossi, composer (born c. 1634)
  • November 26 – Philippe Quinault, librettist for many operas of Jean-Baptiste Lully (born 1635)
  • date unknown – Anne Chabanceau de La Barre (born c. 1628)
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