1674 in music

Published popular music

Classical music

• Heinrich Biber
• Missa Christi resurgentis à 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: Muß 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 – La Guitarre Royalle
• Carolus Hacquart – Cantiones sacrae, Op.1
• Bishop Thomas Ken – "Morning Hymn" (based upon Psalm 108.2)
• Maria Francesca Nascimbeni – Mottetto Sitientes venite
• Pavel Josef Vejvanovský – Sonata Natalis (composed for the Christmas season)
• Gaspar Sanz – Instrucción de Música

Opera

• Jean-Baptiste Lully – Alceste

Births

• January 9 – Reinhard Keiser, opera composer (died 1739)
• July 11 or July 16 – Isaac Watts, the "father of English hymnody" (died 1748)
• September 29 – Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, composer (died 1763)
• November 23 – Pierre Dumage, organist and composer (died 1751)
• date unknown – Ambrose Philips, poet and lyricist (died 1749)
• probable – Jeremiah Clarke, composer (suicide 1707)

Deaths

• January 12 – Giacomo Carissimi, composer (born 1605)
• February 22 – John Wilson, theatre composer (born 1595)
• February 24 – Matthias Weckmann, composer (born c.1616)
• July 14 – Pelham Humfrey, English composer and singer (born 1647)
• October 15 – Robert Herrick, poet and lyricist (born 1591)
• October 27 – Hallgrímur Pétursson, hymnist (born 1614)
• November 8 – John Milton, poet and lyricist (born 1608)
• date unknown
• Francisco Lopez Capillas, composer and chapelmaster of Mexico Cathedral (born 1608)

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