# 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 vår 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
* Gregorio Strozzi – Capricci da sonare cembali et organi
* Giovanni Battista degli Antoni
** 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)
** Gregorio Strozzi, composer (born 1615)
** Michael Wise, organist and composer (born 1648)
** Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (1624-1687)