1688 in music

The year 1688 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, hired Bartolomeo Cristofori as his keeper of musical instruments.

Published popular music

• Lilliburlero in popular circulation

Classical music

• John Blow – Ode for New Year's Day
• André Raison – Premier livre d'orgue
• Giuseppe Torelli – 12 Concertino per camera for Violin and Cello, op. 4
• Johann Jakob Walther – Hortulus chelicus

Opera

• Marc-Antoine Charpentier – David et Jonathas
• Johann Philipp Förtsch – Die heilige Eugenia

Births

• April 15 – Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer (died 1758)
• October 17 – Domenico Zipoli, composer (died 1726)
• date unknown
  • Zacharias Hildebrandt, organ builder (died 1777)
  • Thomas Roseingrave, organist (died 1766)
  • Lorenzo Sornis, violinist

Deaths

• January 8 – Francesco Foggia, composer (b. 1604)
• January 29 – Carlo Pallavicino, Italian composer (b. c. 1630)
• May 14 - Carlo Grossi, composer (born c. 1634)
• November 26 – Philippe Quinault, librettist for many operas of Jean-Baptiste Lully (born 1635)
• date unknown - Anne Chabanceau de La Barre (born c. 1628)