1674 in music
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The year 1674 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- April â 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 â 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.
- Ariane, ou Le Mariage de Bacchus, 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 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: Muà 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 â La Guitarre Royalle
- Carolus Hacquart â Cantiones sacrae, Op.1
- Bishop Thomas Ken â "Morning Hymn" (based upon Psalm 108.2)
- Maria Francesca Nascimbeni â Mottetto Sitientes venite
- Pavel Josef Vejvanovský â Sonata Natalis (composed for the Christmas season)
- Gaspar Sanz â Instrucción de Música
Opera
Births
- January 9 â Reinhard Keiser, opera composer (died 1739)
- July 11 or July 16[1] â Isaac Watts, the "father of English hymnody" (died 1748)
- September 29 â Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, composer (died 1763)
- November 23 â Pierre Dumage, organist and composer (died 1751)
- date unknown â Ambrose Philips, poet and lyricist (died 1749)
- probable â Jeremiah Clarke, composer (suicide 1707)
Deaths
- January 12 â Giacomo Carissimi, composer (born 1605)
- February 22 â John Wilson, theatre composer (born 1595)
- February 24 â Matthias Weckmann, composer (born c.1616)
- July 14 â Pelham Humfrey, English composer and singer (born 1647)
- October 15 â Robert Herrick, poet and lyricist (born 1591)
- October 27 â HallgrÃmur Pétursson, hymnist (born 1614)
- November 8 â John Milton, poet and lyricist (born 1608)
- date unknown
- Francisco Lopez Capillas, composer and chapelmaster of Mexico Cathedral (born 1608)