1678 in music
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The year 1678 in music involved some significant events.
Events
- January 2 â Public opera in Hamburg begins when the Oper am Gänsemarkt is inaugurated with a performance of Johann Theile's biblical Singspiel Adam und Eva.
- May 4 â André Campra begins ecclesiastical studies at the age of 17.[1]
- June 19 â Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers is appointed to join Nicolas Lebègue, Jacques Thomelin and Jean Buterne as an organists of the Chapelle Royale at the French court.
- John Blow becomes a doctor of music.
- Seventeen-year-old Giacomo Antonio Perti composes his first opera.
- The Teatro Grimani is constructed, the grandest opera house in Venice.
Published popular music
Classical music
- Albertus Bryne â 5 dance movements[clarification needed]
- Henry Purcell â 3 Parts upon a Ground, Z.731[2][failed verification]
- Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani â Capricci armonici da chiesa e da camera, Op.4
- Bernardo Pasquini â Sant'Agnese
- Giovanni Paolo Colonna â Il transito di S. Giuseppe
Opera
- Jean-Baptiste Lully
- Psyche
- Bellérophon, LWV 57
- Johann Theile â Der erschaffene, gefallene und aufgerichtete Mensch.
- Carlo Pallavicino â Il Vespasiano
- Giovanni Maria Bononcini â Astianatte
- La Despina, Agnelli, Milano 1678, performed in Milan.
Births
- March 4 â Antonio Vivaldi, composer (died 1741)
- July 6 â Nicola Francesco Haym, opera librettist and composer (died 1727)
- December 30 â William Croft, organist and composer (died 1727)
- probable â Manuel de Zumaya, composer (died 1755)
Deaths
- March â Jacques Hardel, harpsichordist and composer
- August 5 â Juan GarcÃa de Zéspedes, composer (born 1619)
- September 28 â Maurizio Cazzati, Italian composer (born 1616)
- November 18 â Giovanni Maria Bononcini, violinist and composer
- date unknown
- Leonora Duarte, composer
- John Jenkins, composer (born 1592)
- probable â Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Benedictine nun and composer (born 1602)