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1674 in music
The year
1674 in music
involved some significant events.
Events
April
âÂÂ
Thomas Shadwell
produces a revision of the
Dryden
/
Davenant
version of
Shakespeare's
The Tempest
. Furnished with music by
John Bannister
,
Giovanni Battista Draghi
,
Pelham Humfrey
,
Pietro Reggio
, and
Matthew Locke
, it became a great popular success.
September 29
âÂÂ
Nicholas Staggins
is appointed
Master of the Kings Music
Johann Aegidius Bach
is appointed organist at the
Kaufmannskirche
in Erfurt
John Blow
is appointed
Master of the Children
of the
Chapel Royal
Johannes Voorhout
paints the only known portrait of
Dieterich Buxtehude
.
Giovanni Paolo Colonna
becomes chapelmaster at Bologna.
', by
Robert Cambert
, is one of the first French operas to be sung in Britain.
Published popular music
Classical music
Heinrich Biber
Missa Christi resurgentis ÃÂ 20
Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas
Dieterich Buxtehude
Fried- und Freudenreiche Hinfarth
, published in Lübeck (consisting of
Mit Fried und Freud
, composed 1671, and
Klag-Lied
)
Klag-Lied
: MuÃÂ der Tod denn auch entbinden
, chorale settings
Drei schöne Dinge sind
, BuxWV 19
Cristofaro Caresana
La caccia del toro
La Veglia
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Laudate Dominum
, H.159
Domine Dominus noster
, H.163
Pour Ste. Anne
, H.315
Francesco Corbetta
âÂÂ
La Guitarre Royalle
Carolus Hacquart
â Cantiones sacrae, Op.1
Bishop
Thomas Ken
â "Morning Hymn" (based upon Psalm 108.2)
Maria Francesca Nascimbeni
âÂÂ
Mottetto Sitientes venite
Pavel Josef Vejvanovský
âÂÂ
Sonata Natalis
(composed for the Christmas season)
Gaspar Sanz
âÂÂ
Instrucción de Música
Opera
Jean-Baptiste Lully
âÂÂ
Alceste
Births
January 9
âÂÂ
Reinhard Keiser
, opera composer (died 1739)
July 11
or
July 16
âÂÂ
Isaac Watts
, the "father of English hymnody" (died 1748)
September 29
âÂÂ
Jacques-Martin Hotteterre
, composer (died 1763)
November 23
âÂÂ
Pierre Dumage
, organist and composer (died 1751)
date unknown
âÂÂ
Ambrose Philips
, poet and lyricist (died 1749)
probable
âÂÂ
Jeremiah Clarke
, composer (suicide 1707)
Deaths
January 12
âÂÂ
Giacomo Carissimi
, composer (born 1605)
February 22
âÂÂ
John Wilson
, theatre composer (born 1595)
February 24
âÂÂ
Matthias Weckmann
, composer (born c.1616)
July 14
âÂÂ
Pelham Humfrey
, English composer and singer (born 1647)
October 15
âÂÂ
Robert Herrick
, poet and lyricist (born 1591)
October 27
âÂÂ
HallgrÃÂmur Pétursson
, hymnist (born 1614)
November 8
âÂÂ
John Milton
, poet and lyricist (born 1608)
date unknown
Francisco Lopez Capillas
, composer and chapelmaster of Mexico Cathedral (born 1608)
References