1670 in music
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The year 1670 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- June â Christian Geist joins the Swedish court orchestra under Gustaf Düben.
- October 14 â First performance of Molière's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, a five-act comédie-ballet â a play intermingled with music, dance and singing â at the court of King Louis XIV of France.
Publications
- Angelo Berardi â Discorsi musicali
Classical music
- Angelo Berardi â Sinfonie a violino solo con basso continuo Libro primo, Op. 7
- Maurizio Cazzati â Op. 55, a collection of sonatas
- Jacques Champion de Chambonnières â Les Pieces de clavessin, Livre premier
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier â O pretiosum, O salutiferum, H.245
- Denis Gaultier â Pièces de luth sur trois différens modes nouveaux
- Giovanni Legrenzi â Acclamationi divote, Op.10
- Pavel Josef Vejvanovský â Baletti pro tabula in C major for 2 trumpets, organ, strings (CZ-KRa A 885)
Opera
- Ludovico Busca â L'Ippolita, Reina delle Amazzoni
Births
- January 24 â William Congreve, lyricist and librettist (died 1729)
- July 18 â Giovanni Bononcini, cellist and composer (died 1747)
- July 19 â Richard Leveridge, singer and composer (died 1758)
- September 9 â Andreas Armsdorff, composer (died 1699)
- date unknown
- Julie d'Aubigny ("La Maupin"), opera singer (died 1707)
- Pompeo Cannicciari, Italian composer (died 1744)
- Henry Eccles, English composer (died 1742)
- John Christian Jacobi, composer (died 1750)
- Turlough O'Carolan, harpist (died 1738)
- probable
- Antonio Caldara, composer (died 1736)
- Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, composer (died 1746)
Deaths
- April 6 â Leonora Baroni, singer, musician and composer (born 1611)
- April 23 â Loreto Vittori, Italian castrato singer and composer (born c.1590)
- July 18 â Giuseppe Allevi, composer (born c. 1603)
- date unknown
- François Du Fault, composer
- Cornelis Thymenszoon Padbrué, composer (born c.1592)