1690 in music

The year 1690 in music involved some significant events.

Events

Invention of the clarinet (approximate){{cite web|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc935803/m2/1/high_res_d/1002744378-Kirellis.pdf|title=A History of the Clarinet and its Music (thesis)|author=Ramon J. Kireilis|year=1964|access-date=28 January 2019}}
Georg Muffat becomes Kapellmeister to the Bishop of Passau.

"Captain Johnson's Last Farewell"{{cite web|url=http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/22222/citation|title=Capt. Johnsons last Farewel|website=English Broadside Ballad|access-date=28 January 2019}}

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

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

February 1 – Francesco Maria Veracini, violinist and composer (died 1768){{cite book|author1=Philip H. Highfill|author2=Kalman A. Burnim|author3=Edward A. Langhans|title=A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660–1800: Tibbett to M. West|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TGgS9VxWJ0oC&pg=PA131|year=1993|publisher=SIU Press|isbn=978-0-8093-1802-5|pages=131}}
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){{cite book|author=Karl Krueger|title=The Musical Heritage of the United States: The Unknown Portion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m72fAAAAMAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Society for the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage}}
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)