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)