1688 in music
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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)
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