1688 in music

Overview of the events of 1688 in music

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The year 1688 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

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

## Published popular music

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* Lilliburlero in popular circulation

## Classical music

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* John Blow – Ode for New Year's Day
* Marc-Antoine Charpentier
* Magnificat à 4 voix sans instruments, H.76
* Dixit Dominus H.202
* Gottfried Finger – 12 Sonatas for Diverse Instruments, Op.1
* Johann Philipp Krieger – O Jesu, du mein Leben
* Henry Purcell – A Fool's Preferment, Z.571
* André Raison – Premier livre d'orgue
* Johann Schenck – Tyd en Konst-Oeffeningen, Op.2
* Daniel Speer
* Philomela angelica cantionum sacrarum
* Musikalisch-türkischer Eulenspiegel
* Giuseppe Torelli – 12 Concertino per camera for Violin and Cello, Op. 4, published in Bologna
* Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani – Salmi, Mottetti e Litanie della B. V. a 1. 2. 3. voci
* Johann Jakob Walther – Hortulus chelicus

## Opera

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* Marc-Antoine Charpentier – David et Jonathas
* Johann Philipp Förtsch – Die heilige Eugenia
* Jean-Louis Lully – Zephire et Flore
* Henry Purcell – Dido and Aeneas Z.626
* Philidor André Danican l'aine – Le Mariage de la grosse Cathos

## Births

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

## Deaths

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* 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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