The year 1687 in music involved some significant events.
Publications
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Classical music
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- 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
- 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