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 Roy de Parisiens" ("Long live the King of Parisians").
• During a performance of his own Te Deum, 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.

Published popular music

Classical music

• John Blow – Ode for New Year's Day
• Giovanni Battista degli Antoni – Ricercate, Op. 1, one of the earliest examples of music for solo cello
• Giovanni Battista degli Antoni – 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
• Bernardo Sabadini – Didio Giuliano

Births

• February 1 - Johann Adam Birkenstock, violinist and composer (died 1733)
• June 7 - Gaetano Berenstadt, castrato singer (died 1734)
• 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 - Charles King, musician and composer

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
• December 5 - Ercole Bernabei, composer (born 1622)
• date unknown
  • John Gamble, court musician and composer
  • Giovanni Battista Granata, guitarist and composer (born c.1621)
  • Michael Wise, organist and composer (born 1648)