1692 in music

Events

• July 7 – Giuseppe Felice Tosi becomes second organist at San Petronio, Bologna.
• Seven-year-old George Frideric Handel visits the court of Saxony at Weissenfels. Duke Johann Adolf is so impressed at his playing of the organ that he advises his father to let him study music under Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau.

Publications

• John Lenton and Thomas Tollett – A Consort of Musick of Three Parts
• Jacques Guislain Pamart – Messe et mottets à une, deux et 5 voix, instruments et ripienes, Op. 1
• John Playford – The Banquet of Musick
• Johannes Schenk – Il giardino armonico, Op.3

Classical music

• Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber – Requiem in F Minor
• Dietrich Buxtehude
• *Was mich auf dieser Welt betrübt, BuxWV 105
• *Trio Sonata in D major, BuxWV 267
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier
• *Magnificat à 4 voix avec instruments, H.79
• *Verbum caro, panum verbum, H.267
• *Canticum de Sancto Xaverio reformatum, H.355a
• Johann Kuhnau – Neuer Clavier-Übung, anderer Theil
• Marin Marais – Pièces en trio
• Rupert Ignaz Mayr – Pythagorische Schmids-Fuencklein
• Henry Purcell
• *Ode to St. Cecilia, Z. 328
• *If Music be the Food of Love, Z.379
• *Stript of Their Green Our Groves Appear, Z.444
• *Aureng-Zebe, Z.573
• *Oedipus, Z.583
• *The Libertine, Z.600
• Ludovico Roncalli – Capricci armonici sopra la chitarra spagnola
• Giuseppe Torelli – Sinfonie a 3 e Concerti a 4, Op.5
• Antonio Veracini – Trio Sonatas, Op.1

Opera

• Cataldo Amodei – La sirena consolata
• Carlo Agostino Badia – La ninfa Apollo
• Antonio Perti – Furio Camillo
• Henry Purcell – ''The Fairy Queen''

Births

• January 6 – Rynoldus Popma van Oevering, composer
• January 13 – Gunnila Grubb composer
• April 8 – Giuseppe Tartini, violinist and composer
• May 28 – Geminiano Giacomelli, opera composer
• November 2 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, composer
• November 21 – Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni, librettist

Deaths

• February 24 – Antimo Liberati, Italian music theorist, composer, and contralto singer
• July 10 – Heinrich Bach, German organist
• October 12 – Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian composer of sonatas
• November 14 – Christoph Bernhard, German composer
• November 19 – Thomas Shadwell, librettist
• date unknown – John Reading, organist and composer