1689 in music
# 1689 in music

The year 1689 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* September 1 – Johann Joseph Vilsmayr begins work at the Hofkapelle in Salzburg.
* Nicolaus Bruhns is appointed town organist at Husum.

## Published popular music

* Henry Purcell – Musick's Handmaid

## Classical music

* Jean-Henri d'Anglebert – Pièces de clavecin
* Giovanni Battista Bassani – Giona (oratorio)
* Giovanni Paolo Colonna – Sacre lamentationi della Settimana santa a voce sola
* Arcangelo Corelli – 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 – Missae sex, cum instrumentis concertantibus, a collection of concertato masses
* Johann Kuhnau – Neuer Clavier-Übung, erster Theil
* Michel Lambert
   * Airs de cour
   * Airs à une, II. III. et IV. parties avec la basse-continue
* Giovanni Battista Vitali – Artificii musicali (Op. 13)

## Opera

* Antonio Caldara – L'Argene
* Henri Desmarest – La Diane de Fontainebleau
* Henry Purcell – Dido and Aeneas (libretto by Nahum Tate, first performed in London)
* Poul Christian Schindler – Der vereinigte Götterstreit
* Agostino Steffani – La Lotta d'Ercole con Acheloo

## Births

* February 27 – Pietro Gnocchi, composer (died 1775)
* September 30 – Jacques Aubert, composer (died 1753)
* November 3 – Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner, composer (died 1742)
* December 23 – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, composer (died 1755)
* date unknown – Edward Purcell, organist and co-founder of the Royal Society of Musicians (died 1740)

## Deaths

* November 13 – Philipp von Zesen, hymn-writer (born 1619)
