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)