1689 in music
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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
- Arcangelo Corelli – Op. 3, 12 trio sonatas
- 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
- Giovanni Battista Vitali – Artificii musicali (Op. 13)
Opera
- Antonio Caldara – L'Argene
- Henry Purcell – Dido and Aeneas (libretto by Nahum Tate, first performed in London)
- Poul Christian Schindler – Der vereinigte Götterstreit
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)