1687 in music

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The year1687 in musicinvolved some significant events.

Events

• January 30–Louis XIV's entrance into the city hall inspiresAndré Raisonto write his offertory, subtitled "Vive le Roi de Parisiens" ( "Long live the King ofParisians").
• During a performance of his ownTe Deum,Jean-Baptiste Lullyinjures his foot with the point of his cane; this results in death fromgangrenea 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 Mo sắc 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 (died 1733)
• June 7–Gaetano Berenstadt,castratosinger (died 1734)
• July 16–Paolo Antonio Rolli,librettist (died 1765)
• c.August 26–Henry Carey,poet, dramatist, songwriter and theatrical composer (suicide 1743)
• October 12–Sylvius Leopold Weiss,lutenist and composer (died 1750)
• November 23–Jean Baptiste Senaillé,violinist and composer (died 1730)
• December 5–Francesco Geminiani,composer (died 1762)
• December 26–Johann Georg Pisendel,composer (died 1755)
• date unknown
  • Willem de Fesch,musician and composer (died 1761)
  • William Hine,composer (died 1730)
  • Charles King,musician and composer (died 1748)
  • François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif,librettist (died 1770)

Deaths

• March 22–Jean-Baptiste Lully,composer (born 1632)
• March 28–Constantijn Huygens,Dutch poet and composer (born 1596)
• April 25–Johannes Caioni,priest, musician and organ repairer
• August 24–Michael Wise,composer (born c. 1647)
• December 5–Ercole Bernabei,composer (born 1622)
• date unknown
  • John Gamble,court musician and composer
  • Giovanni Battista Granata,guitarist and composer (born c.1621)
  • Gregorio Strozzi,composer (born 1615)
  • Michael Wise,organist and composer (born 1648)
  • Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli(1624-1687)