title: 1689 in music
text: # 1689 in music
  
  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
  * Giovanni Battista Bassani – Giona (oratorio)
  * Giovanni Paolo Colonna – Sacre lamentationi della Settimana santa a voce sola
  * Arcangelo Corelli – Op. 3, 12 trio sonatas
  * Michel Richard Delalande
     * Audite caeli, S.7
     * Quam dilecta S.12
     * De Profundis S.23
  * Domenico Gabrielli
     * Seven ricercari for solo cello
     * Cello Sonata No. 1 and No. 2
  * 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
     * Airs à une, II. III. et IV. parties avec la basse-continue
  * Giovanni Battista Vitali – Artificii musicali (Op. 13)
  
  ## Opera
  
  * Antonio Caldara – L'Argene
  * Henri Desmarest – La Diane de Fontainebleau
  * Henry Purcell – Dido and Aeneas (libretto by Nahum Tate, first performed in London)
  * Poul Christian Schindler – Der vereinigte Götterstreit
  * Agostino Steffani – La Lotta d'Ercole con Acheloo
  
  ## 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)
  