1690 in music

The year 1690 in music involved some significant events.

Events

 * Invention of the clarinet (approximate)
 * Georg Muffat becomes Kapellmeister to the Bishop of Passau.

Published popular music

 * "Captain Johnson's Last Farewell"

Classical music

 * Giovanni Battista Bassani – Armonici entusiasmi di Davide, Op. 9 (Venice)
 * Giovanni Bononcini
 * Chi d'Amor tra le catene
 * La Maddalena a'piedi di Cristo
 * Jacques Boyvin – Livre d'orgue I, Ton 1–8
 * Nicolaus Bruhns – Mein Hertz ist Bereit
 * Dietrich Buxtehude
 * Du Lebensfürst Herr Jesu Christ, BuxWV 22
 * Jubilate Domino, BuxWV 64
 * Quemadmodum desiderat cervus, BuxWV 92
 * Missa brevis, BuxWV 114
 * Marc-Antoine Charpentier
 * Messe pour Mr Mauroy, H.6
 * Tenebrae Responsories H.127–133
 * Leçon de ténèbres du Mercredi saint, H.135, 138
 * Leçon de ténèbres du Jeudi saint, H.136, 139
 * Leçon de ténèbres du Vendredi saint, H.137, 140
 * In honorem Sancti Xaverij canticum, H.355
 * In nativitatem Domini canticum, H.416
 * Symphonie à 3 flûtes, H.529
 * Commencement d’ouverture, H.546
 * François Couperin – La Steinquerque
 * Gilles Jullien – Premier Livre d'Orgue
 * Johann Kehnau – Bone Jesu, care Jesu
 * Georg Muffat – Apparatus Musico-Organisticus
 * Giovanni Domenico Partenio – Motets for two and three voices, Op. 1 (Venice: Giuseppe Sala)
 * Francesco Passarini – Misse brevi for eight voices and organ continuo, Op. 4 (Bologna: Pier Maria Monti)
 * Henry Purcell
 * music for The Tempest
 * music for Amphitryon, Z.572
 * Giuseppe Torelli
 * Trumpet Sonata in D major, G.1
 * Sinfonia in D major, G.2
 * Jean Veillot – Motets

Opera

 * Giuseppe Boniventi – Il gran Macedone
 * Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Le Jugement de Paris
 * Louis Lully – Orphée
 * Henry Purcell – Dioclesian, Z.627
 * Alessandro Scarlatti
 * La Rosaura
 * La Statira

Theoretical writings

 * Kurze doch deutliche Anleitung zu der lieblich- und löblichen Singekunst by Johann Georg Ahle, an enlarged and revised version of Johann Rudolf Ahle's famous singing manual, Brevis et perspicua introductio. A second edition was published in 1704.
 * Traité d’accompagnement pour le théorbe et le clavecin by Denis Delair

Births

 * February 1 – Francesco Maria Veracini, violinist and composer (died 1768)
 * June 11 – Giovanni Antonio Giay, composer (died 1764)
 * September 15 – Ignazio Prota, composer and music teacher (died 1748)
 * November 22 – François Colin de Blamont, composer (died 1760)
 * November 24 (baptized) – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, organist, harpsichordist and composer (died 1750)
 * date unknown
 * Francesco Barsanti, composer, recorder & oboe virtuoso; born Lucca, Toscany (IT). (Died 1775)
 * Johann Tobias Krebs, organist and composer (died 1762)
 * probable
 * Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, composer and violinist (died 1758)
 * Senesino, castrato singer (died 1756)

Deaths

 * May 27 – Giovanni Legrenzi, composer (born 1626)
 * July 10 – Domenico Gabrielli, cellist and composer (born c.1651)
 * date unknown – Gustaf Düben, organist (born 1628)