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)