1690 in music
The year 1690 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- Invention of the clarinet
- Georg Muffat becomes Kapellmeister to the Bishop of Passau.
Published popular music
- "Captain Johnson's Last Farewell"
Classical music
- Giovanni Battista Bassani – Armonici entusiasmi di Davide, Op. 9
- Giovanni Bononcini
- *Chi d'Amor tra le catene
- *La Maddalena a'piedi di Cristo
- Jacques Boyvin – Livre d'orgue I, Ton 1–8
- Nicolaus Bruhns – Mein Hertz ist Bereit
- Dietrich Buxtehude
- *Du Lebensfürst Herr Jesu Christ, BuxWV 22
- *Jubilate Domino, BuxWV 64
- *Quemadmodum desiderat cervus, BuxWV 92
- *Missa brevis, BuxWV 114
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- *Messe pour Mr Mauroy, H.6
- *Tenebrae Responsories H.127–133
- *Leçon de ténèbres du Mercredi saint, H.135, 138
- *Leçon de ténèbres du Jeudi saint, H.136, 139
- *Leçon de ténèbres du Vendredi saint, H.137, 140
- *In honorem Sancti Xaverij canticum, H.355
- *In nativitatem Domini canticum, H.416
- *Symphonie à 3 flûtes, H.529
- *Commencement d’ouverture, H.546
- François Couperin – La Steinquerque
- Gilles Jullien – Premier Livre d'Orgue
- Johann Kehnau – Bone Jesu, care Jesu
- Georg Muffat – Apparatus Musico-Organisticus
- Giovanni Domenico Partenio – Motets for two and three voices, Op. 1
- Francesco Passarini – Misse brevi for eight voices and organ continuo, Op. 4
- Henry Purcell
- *music for The Tempest
- *music for Amphitryon, Z.572
- Giuseppe Torelli
- *Trumpet Sonata in D major, G.1
- *Sinfonia in D major, G.2
- Jean Veillot – ''Motets''
Opera
- Giuseppe Boniventi – Il gran Macedone
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Le Jugement de Paris
- Louis Lully – Orphée
- Henry Purcell – Dioclesian, Z.627
- Alessandro Scarlatti
- *La Rosaura
- *''La Statira''
Theoretical writings
Kurze doch deutliche Anleitung zu der lieblich- und löblichen Singekunst by Johann Georg Ahle, an enlarged and revised version of Johann Rudolf Ahle's famous singing manual, Brevis et perspicua introductio. A second edition was published in 1704.- Traité d’accompagnement pour le théorbe et le clavecin by Denis Delair
Births
- February 1 – Francesco Maria Veracini, violinist and composer
- June 11 – Giovanni Antonio Giay, composer
- September 15 – Ignazio Prota, composer and music teacher
- November 22 – François Colin de Blamont, composer
- November 24 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, organist, harpsichordist and composer
- date unknown
- *Francesco Barsanti, composer, recorder & oboe virtuoso; born Lucca, Toscany.
- *Johann Tobias Krebs, organist and composer
- probable
- *Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, composer and violinist
- *Senesino, castrato singer
Deaths
- May 27 – Giovanni Legrenzi, composer
- July 10 – Domenico Gabrielli, cellist and composer
- date unknown – Gustaf Düben, organist