1687 in music
The year 1687 in music involved some significant events.
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.
Publications
- Angelo Berardi – Documenti armonici
- Le Sieur Danoville – L'Art de toucher le dessus et le basse de violle
- Jean Rosseau – ''Traité de la viole''
Classical music
- John Blow – Ode for New Year's Day
- Dieterich Buxtehude
- *Bedenke Mensch das Ende, BuxWV 9
- *Der Herr ist mit mir, BuxWV 15
- *Domine salvum fac regem, BuxWV 18
- *Eins bitte ich vom Herrn, BuxWV 24
- *Herren vår Gud, BuxWV 40
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- *Regina coeli, H.30
- *Sub tuum praesidium, H.352
- Michel Richard Delalande – Super flumina Babylonis, S.13
- Giovanni Antonio Gianettini – L'uomo in bivio
- 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
- *Motetti a voce sola, Op.14
- Bernardo Pasquini – I fatti di Mosè nel deserto
- Henry Purcell
- *Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drum, Z.335
- *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
- *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
- July 16 – Paolo Antonio Rolli, librettist
- c. August 26 – Henry Carey, poet, dramatist, songwriter and theatrical composer
- 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
- *Willem de Fesch, musician and composer
- *William Hine, composer
- *Charles King, musician and composer
- *François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif, librettist
Deaths
- March 22 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer
- March 28 – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer
- April 25 – Johannes Caioni, priest, musician and organ repairer
- August 24 – Michael Wise, composer
- December 5 – Ercole Bernabei, composer
- date unknown
- *John Gamble, court musician and composer
- *Giovanni Battista Granata, guitarist and composer
- *Gregorio Strozzi, composer
- *Michael Wise, organist and composer
- *Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli