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)