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

Publications

• Angelo Berardi – Documenti armonici
• Le Sieur Danoville – L'Art de toucher le dessus et le basse de violle
• Jean Rosseau – Traité de la viole

Classical music

• John Blow – Ode for New Year's Day
• Dieterich Buxtehude
• Bedenke Mensch das Ende, BuxWV 9
• Der Herr ist mit mir, BuxWV 15
• Domine salvum fac regem, BuxWV 18
• Eins bitte ich vom Herrn, BuxWV 24
• Herren vÃ¥r Gud, BuxWV 40
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier
• Regina coeli, H.30
• Sub tuum praesidium, H.352
• Michel Richard Delalande – Super flumina Babylonis, S.13
• Giovanni Antonio Gianettini – L'uomo in bivio
• Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre – Pièces de clavecin, Livre 1
• Nicolas Lebègue – Pieces de Clavessin, Livre 2
• Isabella Leonarda
• Mottetti a 1, 2 e 3 voci con violini, e senza, Op.13
• Motetti a voce sola, Op.14
• Bernardo Pasquini – I fatti di Mosè nel deserto
• Henry Purcell
• Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drum, Z.335
• Oh Solitude, Z.406
• Suite in G major, Z.662
• A Song Tune, ZT.695
• Johann Adam Reincken – Hortus Musicus
• – Capricci da sonare cembali et organi
• Ricercate, Op. 1, one of the earliest examples of music for solo cello
• 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
• Carlo Pallavicino – La Gerusalemme Liberata
• André Danican Philidor – Le Canal de Versailles
• Bernardo Sabadini – Didio Giuliano
• Agostino Steffani – Alarico

Births

• February 1 – Johann Adam Birkenstock, violinist and composer (died 1733)
• June 7 – Gaetano Berenstadt, castrato singer (died 1734)
• July 16 – Paolo Antonio Rolli, librettist (died 1765)
• c. August 26 – Henry Carey, poet, dramatist, songwriter and theatrical composer (suicide 1743)
• 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
• Willem de Fesch, musician and composer (died 1761)
• William Hine, composer (died 1730)
• Charles King, musician and composer (died 1748)
• François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif, librettist (died 1770)

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
• August 24 – Michael Wise, composer (born c. 1647)
• December 5 – Ercole Bernabei, composer (born 1622)
• date unknown
• John Gamble, court musician and composer
• Giovanni Battista Granata, guitarist and composer (born c.1621)
• , composer (born 1615)
• Michael Wise, organist and composer (born 1648)
• Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (1624–1687)