1686 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1686.

Classical music

 * Michel Richard Delalande – Ecce nunc benedicte, S.8
 * Henry Du Mont – Benedic anima mea
 * Johann Caspar Kerll
 * Modulatio organica
 * Toccata cromatica con durezze e ligature
 * Marin Mariais – Pièces de viole, Livre 1
 * Johann Christoph Pezel – Opus musicum sonatarum praestantissimarum (The "Alphabet Sonatas")
 * Henry Purcell
 * Ye Tuneful Muses
 * (attrib.) – "Lillibullero"
 * Vasily Titov – Psaltïr' rifmovannaya (Псалтырь рифмованная or Псалтырь римфотворная), vocal polyphonic setting of the Russian psalter
 * Giuseppe Torelli – 10 Sonate a 3, with basso continuo, Op. 1
 * Robert de Visée – Livre de pièces pour la guitare

Opera

 * Jean-Baptiste Lully
 * Acis et Galatée, LWV 73
 * Armide, LWV 71
 * Giacomo Antonio Perti– L'incoronazione di Dario
 * Alessandro Scarlatti – Olimpia vendicata

Births

 * July 31 (or August 1) – Benedetto Marcello, composer (died 1739)
 * August 17 – Nicola Porpora, composer (died 1768)
 * September – Charles Young, organist and composer (died 1758)
 * October 31 – Senesino, castrato singer (died 1758)
 * December 15 – Jean-Joseph Fiocco, composer (died 1746)
 * December 25 – Giovanni Battista Somis, violinist and composer (died 1763)

Deaths

 * c. November – John Playford, music publisher (born 1623)
 * probable – Augustin Pfleger, composer (born 1635)