1674 in music

1674 in music

The year 1674 in music involved some significant events.

Events

*Johannes Voorhout paints the only known portrait of Dieterich Buxtehude.
*Giovanni Paolo Colonna becomes chapelmaster at Bologna.
*" _fr. Ariane, ou Le Mariage de Bacchus", by Robert Cambert, is one of the first French operas to be sung in Britain.

Published popular music

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Classical music

*Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber - 16 "Rosary" sonatas, never published
*Vejvanofsky (1633-1693) - "Sonata Natalis" (composed for the Christmas season)
*Ken - "Morning Hymn" (based upon Psalm 108.2)

Opera

*Jean-Baptiste Lully - "Alceste"

Births

*January 9 - Reinhard Keiser, opera composer (died 1739)
*July 17 - Isaac Watts, the "father of English hymnody" (died 1748)
*"probable" - Jeremiah Clarke, composer (died 1707)

Deaths

*January 12 - Giacomo Carissimi, composer (born 1605)
*February 24 - Matthias Weckmann, composer (born c.1616)
*July 14 - Pelham Humphrey, English composer and singer (born 1647)
*"date unknown" - Francisco Lopez Capillas, composer and chapelmaster of Mexico Cathedral (born 1608)


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