The year 1672 in music involved some significant events.
Events
Publications
- New Court Songs
- Thomas Salmon â Observations upon a Late Book
Classical music
Births
- January 16 â Francesco Mancini, composer (died 1737)
- March 21 â Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, librettist for Agostino Steffani, Antonio Lotti and others (died 1742)
- April 6 â André-Cardinal Destouches, French composer of opera (died 1749)
- May 1 â Joseph Addison, English lyricist, essayist, and politician (died 1719)
- June 11 â Francesco Antonio Bonporti, priest and composer (died 1748)
- September 8 (baptized) â Nicolas de Grigny, organist (died 1703)
- November 6 â Carlo Agostino Badia, court composer (died 1738)
- December 21 â Benjamin Schmolck, hymn-writer (died 1737)
- date unknown â Carlo Agostino Badia, opera composer (died 1738)
Deaths
- January â Denis Gaultier, lutenist and composer (born 1603)
- January 15 â John Cosin, English translator of "Veni Creator Spiritus" (born 1594)
- March 8 â Nicolaus Hasse, composer (born c. 1617)
- June 17 â Orazio Benevoli, composer (born 1605)
- July 13 â Henry Cooke, actor, singer and composer (born 1616)
- August 9 â José Ximénez, organist and composer (born 1601)
- September 16 â Anne Bradstreet, lyricist/poet (born 1612)
- November 6 â Heinrich Schütz, composer (born 1585)
- December 17 â Giovanni Antonio Boretti, composer
- date unknown
- Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, French harpsichordist and composer (born c.1601)
- Valentino Siani, Italian violin-maker (born c. 1595)
- probable â François Dufault, lutenist and composer (born c.1604)
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