title: 1688 in music
text: # 1688 in music
  
  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
  * 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
  
  * 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
  
  * 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
  
  * 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)
  