1689 in music
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The year 1689 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- September 1 â Johann Joseph Vilsmayr begins work at the Hofkapelle in Salzburg.
- Nicolaus Bruhns is appointed town organist at Husum.
Published popular music
- Henry Purcell â Musick's Handmaid
Classical music
- Jean-Henri d'Anglebert â Pièces de clavecin
- Giovanni Battista Bassani â Giona (oratorio)
- Giovanni Paolo Colonna â Sacre lamentationi della Settimana santa a voce sola
- Arcangelo Corelli â Op. 3, 12 trio sonatas
- Michel Richard Delalande
- Audite caeli, S.7
- Quam dilecta S.12
- De Profundis S.23
- Domenico Gabrielli
- Seven ricercari for solo cello
- Cello Sonata No. 1 and No. 2
- Johann Caspar Kerll â Missae sex, cum instrumentis concertantibus, a collection of concertato masses
- Johann Kuhnau â Neuer Clavier-Ãbung, erster Theil
- Michel Lambert
- Airs de cour
- Airs à une, II. III. et IV. parties avec la basse-continue
- Giovanni Battista Vitali â Artificii musicali (Op. 13)
Opera
- Antonio Caldara â L'Argene
- Henri Desmarest â La Diane de Fontainebleau
- Henry Purcell â Dido and Aeneas (libretto by Nahum Tate, first performed in London)
- Poul Christian Schindler â Der vereinigte Götterstreit
- Agostino Steffani â La Lotta d'Ercole con Acheloo
Births
- February 27 â Pietro Gnocchi, composer (died 1775)
- September 30 â Jacques Aubert, composer (died 1753)
- November 3 â Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner, composer (died 1742)
- December 23 â Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, composer (died 1755)
- date unknown â Edward Purcell, organist and co-founder of the Royal Society of Musicians (died 1740)
Deaths
- November 13 â Philipp von Zesen, hymn-writer (born 1619)