1668 in music

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The year 1668 in music involved some significant events.

Events

  • Dietrich Buxtehude becomes organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck.
  • Joseph Haines joins the troupe of performers at Hatton Garden, London.
  • Antonio Draghi is appointed to the court of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, at Vienna.

Publications

  • Dietrich Becker – Musikalische Frühlings-Früchte
  • Richard Duckworth's Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing, the first work on change ringing, is compiled and published complete by Fabian Stedman in London.[1]
  • Thomas Tomkins' Musica Deo Sacra is published posthumously by his son, Nathaniel.
  • Gaspar de Verlit – Missae et motettae nec non quator antiphonae B. Mariae Virginis, vol. 2

Classical music

  • Christoph Bernhard -- Ach mein herzliebes Jesulein (and other portions of Geistlicher Harmonien Erster Teil)
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber -- Sonata à 7
  • Dietrich Buxtehude -- All solch dein Güt wir preisen, BuxWV 3
  • Francesco Cavalli -- O bone Jesu
  • Maurizio Cazzati – Canzonette a voce sola, libro 5, Op.46
  • Henry DuMont -- Motets à deux voix, avec la basse-continue
  • Lambert Pietkin -- Sacri concentus, Op. 3
  • Johann Schmelzer - Harmonia à 5

Opera

  • Antonio Cesti – Il pomo d'oro (premiered July 12 or 14 in Vienna)
  • Antonio Draghi – Achille riconsciuto
  • Jacopo Melani – Il Girello
  • Jean-Baptist Lully
    • Le carnaval, LWV 36
    • George Dandin
    • La Grotte de Versailles
  • Francesco Feo -- Andromaca

Births

  • January 8 – Jean Gilles, composer (died 1705)
  • June 19 – Georg von Bertouch, composer (died 1743)
  • September 13 – Luca Antonio Predieri, composer (died 1767)
  • October 29 – Joseph-François Duché de Vancy, librettist (died 1704)
  • November 10 – François Couperin, French organist and composer (died 1733)
  • November 27 – Pantaleon Hebenstreit, German dance teacher, musician, composer and inventor of the pantalon (died 1750)
  • December 11 – Apostolo Zeno, Venetian librettist (died 1750)
  • date unknown – John Eccles, English composer (died 1735)[2]

Deaths

  • March 7 – Odoardo Ceccarelli, Italian singer and composer (born c. 1600)
  • April 7 – Sir William Davenant, English poet and playwright, author of The Siege of Rhodes, considered the first opera in English (born 1606)
  • October 23 – Giovanni Rovetta, Venetian composer (born 1596)
  • August 9 – Jacob Balde, German New Latin poet and lyricist (born 1604)
  • December 2 – Albertus Bryne, English composer and organist (born 1621)
  • date unknown
    • Nicolas Métru, French organist, violist, and composer (born 1610)
    • Francesco Sbarra, dramatist, poet, and librettist (born 1611)

References

  1. ↑ Eisel, John C. (September 2014). "Stedman, Fabian (bap. 1640, d. 1713)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/68907. Retrieved 2015-04-23. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  2. ↑ Hyperion Records: John Eccles. Accessed 21 February 2013
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