1672 in music

The year 1672 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• March – Jean-Baptiste Lully quarrels with his regular collaborator, the playwright Molière, who brings in Marc-Antoine Charpentier to replace him.
• December 30 – John Banister begins Europe’s first major commercial public concert series at Whitefriars in the City of London.
• Arcangelo Corelli visits Paris, where he incurs the jealousy of Jean-Baptiste Lully.

Publications

• New Court Songs
• Thomas Salmon – Observations upon a Late Book

Classical music

• Dietrich Buxtehude – Auf stimmet die Saiten, BuxWV 116
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier
• Messe pour les trépassés, H.2
• Messe à 8 voix et 8 violons et flûtes, H.3
• Messe à quatre choeurs, H.4
• Te Deum, H.145
• Symphonies pour un reposoir, H.515
• Jean-Baptiste Lully
• Marche
• Les folies d'Espagne
• Francesco Passarini – Compieta concertata..., Op. 3 (Bologna: Giacomo Monti)
• Heinrich Schütz – Matthäus-Passion
• Johann Sebastiani – Matthaus-Passion

Opera

• Antonio Draghi – Gl'atomi d'Epicuro
• Juan Hidalgo de Polanco – La estatua de Prometeo
• Antonio Masini – Achille in Siro
• Giovanni Maria Pagliardi – Caligula delirante
• Antonio Sartorio – Adelaide

Births

• January 16 – Francesco Mancini, composer (died 1737)
• March 21 – Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, librettist for Agostino Steffani, Antonio Lotti and others (died 1742)
• April 6 – André-Cardinal Destouches, French composer of opera (died 1749)
• May 1 – Joseph Addison, English lyricist, essayist, and politician (died 1719)
• June 11 – Francesco Antonio Bonporti, priest and composer (died 1748)
• September 8 (baptized) – Nicolas de Grigny, organist (died 1703)
• November 6 – Carlo Agostino Badia, court composer (died 1738)
• December 21 – Benjamin Schmolck, hymn-writer (died 1737)
• date unknown – Carlo Agostino Badia, opera composer (died 1738)

Deaths

• January – Denis Gaultier, lutenist and composer (born 1603)
• January 15 – John Cosin, English translator of "Veni Creator Spiritus" (born 1594)
• March 8 – Nicolaus Hasse, composer (born c. 1617)
• June 17 – Orazio Benevoli, composer (born 1605)
• July 13 – Henry Cooke, actor, singer and composer (born 1616)
• August 9 – José Ximénez, organist and composer (born 1601)
• September 16 – Anne Bradstreet, lyricist/poet (born 1612)
• November 6 – Heinrich Schütz, composer (born 1585)
• December 17 – 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 – François Dufault, lutenist and composer (born c.1604)

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